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26 Aug 09

Wired Up: Tuned out | Scholastic.com

  • Today's digital-media natives need a school environment that both challenges and channels their tech-savvy brains.
09 Aug 09

What really motivates middle school students?

  • Goals and Needs: The SCORE



    As the responses to our questions showed, people who are engaged in their
    work are driven by four essential goals, each of which satisfies a particular
    human need:



    * Success (the need for mastery),



    * Curiosity (the need for understanding),



    * Originality (the need for self-expression),



    * Relationships (the need for involvement with others).



    These four goals form the acronym for our model of student engagement -
    SCORE. Under the right classroom conditions and at the right level for each
    student, they can build the motivation and Energy (to complete our acronym)
    that is essential for a complete and productive life. These goals can provide
    students with the energy to deal constructively with the complexity, confusion,
    repetition, and ambiguities of life (the drive toward completion).
  • Annemarie Palincsar Brown has applied this "jigsaw" strategy to
    inner-city students using in-classroom computer networks (Brown et al. 1993).
    She found that it significantly improved their motivation, reading, and
    writing. Elizabeth Cohen (1994) builds reciprocal groups by asking students
    with different talents and abilities to work on one project that requires
    all of their gifts.
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