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Enhancing Student Motivation through Autonomy and Mastery in Math Education

This reflection explores effective strategies for teaching math while fostering student motivation through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. By balancing homework expectations with the realities of students' lives, offering choices in assignments, and utilizing collaborative techniques, educators can create a more engaging learning environment. Emphasizing the importance of a mastery mindset, students are encouraged to persevere through challenging problems. This approach moves beyond traditional rewards and punishments, ultimately showing students the relevance and excitement of math in their lives.

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Enhancing Student Motivation through Autonomy and Mastery in Math Education

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  1. Drive-ingthrough aClassroom A reflection on my teaching through a “Pink” lens.

  2. Rewards and Punishments

  3. Motivation comes from Autonomy Mastery Purpose

  4. Autonomy of Time Task Technique Team

  5. Homework • Perfect world: Everyone does their homework tonight, since we will be using the ideas in class tomorrow. • Reality: Other classes, family, job, and extra-curricular activities sometimes take priority, but it is still important to get this work done reasonably soon.

  6. Homework • Solutions available online, use them as you need them. • Some choice: • Practice (optional, but potentially helpful) • VIP (must do these) • Challenge (optional, but potentially interesting)

  7. Homework and Autonomy • Time: Due date is somewhat flexible • Task: Some choice about which problems to do • Technique: Resources available • Team: Some students chose to work together

  8. versus “We need to teach these kids responsibility! No looking in the back and no points for late homework!”

  9. versus Better: • More homework completed • More work shown and problems tried, including practice and challenge problems • Less copying from the solutions or each other

  10. Mastery • Humans have a desire to improve

  11. Beliefs about Mastery • Improvement is possible, and comes through persistent effort • “Goldilocks” Principle

  12. Too cold Too hot

  13. Developing a Mastery Mindset • Open, interesting questions • Wait time and group work • Use student work to ask next question • This is important • You can do this • I won’t give up on you

  14. Developing a Mastery Mindset • You may not know this yet, but you will soon. • Being smart doesn’t mean knowing answers to hard questions, it means sticking with the hard questions until you can come up with an answer. • Sometimes, we have to change our efforts if we want to change our results.

  15. Purpose

  16. Purpose • Why do we have to learn this? • When am I ever going to use this? • What possible use is <insert favorite topic here>?

  17. DeCraene’s reasons for teaching math, and why you should learn it • Math is the language of the other sciences. • Math is power. • Math is alive, growing, and always interesting. • Math is endlessly useful, even if we don’t see it at first. • Math is FUN!

  18. Motivation • Not about rewards and punishments • Build in Autonomy • Foster a Mastery Mindset • Help students see their Purpose and place in the math world.

  19. Time’s Up! • About your speaker: • Peter DeCraene • Evanston Township High School • 847-424-7600 • decraenep@eths.k12.il.us • Teaching Math and Computer Science since 1988 to 5th through 12th graders; Last 15 years at ETHS, this year as Department Chair.

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