MOTIVATION Becoming a Strategic Learner MOTIVATION COMPONENT 1

MOTIVATION Becoming a Strategic Learner

MOTIVATION COMPONENT 1 Motivation addresses the degree to which you want to or are willing to complete the work necessary for you to reach your own academic and post-college goals. COMPONENT 2 The degree to which you accept responsibility for performing the specific tasks required for success in college.

COMPONENT 1 What are your ACADEMIC goals? Are they short-term goals? Are they long-term goals? SHORT TERM Something you can achieve in the near future. o Day, or Week, or a few Months LONG TERM Something you can achieve over a long period of time. o 1 semester, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, etc.

ENABLING GOAL A special goal Promotes the attainment of a long-term goal. Smaller goals, associated with a long-term important goal. Earn my HCC degree/certificate Second Year - complete with 3. 5 First Year - complete with a 3. 0 Each Semester: Complete all homework Earn a B in ENGL 1301 and MATH 1314 this semester

COMPONENT 2 The degree to which you accept responsibility for performing the specific tasks required for success in college. What is your Locus of Control

Internal vs. External locus of control Do you think achievement is a matter of luck more than effort? Do you think your grade depends on your professor? Do you think academic abilities are things you are just born with, or do you think you can

Helpful or Unhelpful Beliefs Math is stupid!! I hate Math!! I am dumb and can’t learn Math!!

What is this? Why is it called that? Why is it not called a chair? We can sit on it. Why is it not called a bed? We can lay on it. Using something for the same purpose without looking at alternatives is called functional fixedness.

Examples of functional UN-fixedness