59. How to Motivate Students and Regulate Emotions in STEM

4/15/2022

Show Summary:

Rewards work well if you have a skill or a task that is mechanical, but what about in STEM? How do you get your students to be more intrinsically motivated versus wanting those extrinsic rewards? Tune in as Claire recaps her Invention Convention with Natasha and all of the ways she was surprised by her students. Learn how you can incorporate motivational tools and emotion regulation methods into your STEM class.

Links from the Show:

• Episode 13. How to Effectively Teach Skills to Students

• Episode 19: How To Motivate Your Students

• Daniel Pink - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• Google’s 80/20 Rule

• Dr. Georgia Lagoudas is a Senior Advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy

  • 46. STEM Career Chat with Bioengineer Dr. Georgia Lagoudas

  • Recording of White House Virtual Event – “Let’s Clear the Air on COVID: An OSTP Discussion on Clean Indoor Air”

  • EPA’s Clean Air in Buildings Challenge

• Jigsaw Method of Teaching

• 33. My Students Built A Wheelchair

• Upstairs/Downstairs Brain

  • 56. What Do Kids Need To Prepare For Engineering?

  • Upstairs Downstairs Brain Paper Circuit SEL STEM Activity <from the Vivify store>

  • Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnne Deak

  • Why Do We Lose Control of Our Emotions?

  • Upstairs Brain Downstairs Brain - SEL Sketches

• How to Teach Growth Mindset and Failing Forward <from the Vivify blog>

• 12 Ways to Boost Social-Emotional Learning with STEM <from the Vivify blog>

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