Systematic work with motivation a fivestep motivation method

Systematic work with motivation - a five-step motivation method Langeland, Horverak og Fagerhaug

Purpose • Support students to • Work with identifying personal goals, obstacles/challenges and solutions • Take responsibility for own life and learning Horverak, Langeland Fagerhaug 2

1. Goal 5. Action 4. Focus Joint anonymous summary and discussion in group 2. Success factors Autonomy Competence Relatedness 3. Obstacles Developed by Langeland, G. M. , Horverak, M. O. og Fagerhaug, J. P.

Session 1 • Discuss in class: How do you experience that you manage school and life in general? What is simple and what can be a challenge? • The students write individual answers to the questions that follow (on a paper/in a book, write a 4 -digit code, e. g. the first 4 numbers in your mobile phone number) 1. What do you want to succeed with in life, what is important and realistic in the near future? 2. Success factors: What about you and your life is good? Can you use this to reach your goals? 3. Is there something about you or your everyday that hinders you from reaching your goals? After this session, the teacher collects the anonymous notes, go through them and make a list of the students’ responses. Good quotes can also be included in the summary Horverak, Langeland Fagerhaug 4

Session 2 • The teacher sums up the students’ reflections from session 1 • The focus model, we need to sort what is • Important • Urgent Check focus model video about life on the webpage (material, videos) • The students get back their notes from session 1 • They write the heading: «Action plan» and write answers to the questions: 4. What do you choose to work with the next few weeks to reach your goals? 5. What specifically will you do to manage this? The students take pictures of their notes before the teacher collects them (voluntary). Horverak, Langeland Fagerhaug 5

Session 3(about a month after session 2) • The teacher sums up and presents the students’ action plans (question 4 and 5), and the class discuss: • How did it go, did you follow your plan? • What was difficult to manage? • Could you choose other ways to work with reaching different goals? If they do not remember their plans, they can get their book back. • Question 4 and 5 from session 2 is repeated, and the students write in the book, and the teacher collects the anonymous notes afterwards. 4. What do you choose to work with the next few weeks to reach your goals? 5. What specifically will you do to manage this? Utviklet ved Møglestu videregående skole av Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak og John Petter Fagerhaug, 2018

Continued work • Session 3 is repeated continuously. • The teacher and the students discuss how often they need to repeat the method, e. g. every month or more? • It is recommended that the method is repeated at least twice every semester. Utviklet ved Møglestu videregående skole av Gerd Martina Langeland, May Olaug Horverak og John Petter Fagerhaug, 2018