2019 Annual Conference

Research to Practice

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

This presentation will focus on a teaching practice called Motivational Immediacy. In contrast to intrinsic/extrinsic motivational constructs, this session will address immediate and global motivation. Presenters will collaborate with participants to identify these constructs in relation to their own students, and to develop specific strategies and methods for practice.

This presentation is primarily practitioner-oriented and will be of the most benefit to those who teach adult learners in any setting. Additionally, it would be useful to those who have a general interest in the theory and practice of motivational constructs such as learner engagement and resistance across all learning spaces.

Participants in this interactive session will be able to recognize and identify the distinction between global motivation and immediate motivation in any given learning space. They will learn, discuss, and share methods to collaborate with students to identify these types of motivation. Additionally, participants will be able to identify in their own teaching domains, the general global and immediate motivation of their students. Beyond developing a conceptual understanding of these motivational dynamics, participants will develop their own practice-specific strategies and methods for fostering immediate motivation in their online and face-to-face classrooms.

Student motivation has long been a focus for educators. Most often, the terms extrinsic and intrinsic have been used to categorize learner motivation so that it can be better understood and fostered in the classroom. While this way of understanding motivation can be useful, it is limited both because it is often difficult to clearly identify the difference in practice, and because it fails to recognize and draw the teacher’s attention to the more practically important aspects of learner motivation. In this session, the presenters will provide a framework for understanding two different types of motivation: Global Motivation and Immediate Motivation. These two constructs will be addressed in detail along with the many implications for concrete practice. Participants will be collaborated with to identify these types of motivations in the learners within their own domains of practice, and to develop specific strategies and methods for engaging in a teaching practice called Motivational Immediacy.

This session will be interactive. The presenters will share the concepts in brief form and the focus will be on collaborating with participants to develop specific teaching methods.