Motivation

Motivation

Lessons from The Seas of Hidden Motivation
Imagine that you are a deep sea diver, plunging into the depths of the sea. Out of the gloom looms the dark form of a ship-wreck. You swim into the wreck through a porthole. What motivates you to do what you do next?

Motivations create impulses. Act on impulse.


The impulses that drive me in the sea are the same that drive me on land.


Speaking My Passion expressing due gratitude  FOR WHAT MY PASSION HAS BROUGHT ME

EMOTIONS

Lessons from The Seas of Motivation

Lessons from The Seas of Hidden Motivation
Imagine that you are a deep sea diver, plunging into the depths of the sea. Out of the gloom looms the dark form of a ship-wreck. You swim into the wreck through a porthole. What motivates you to do what you do next?

Motivation create impulses. Act on impulse.


The impulses that drive me in the sea are the same that drive me on land.


Speaking My Passion expressing due gratitude  FOR WHAT MY PASSION HAS BROUGHT ME

Passion

There was a time in my life when Meredith Grey was real to me.  I loved her character.  I related to her.  "The character was created by series' producer Shonda Rhimes, and is portrayed by actress Ellen Pompeo. Meredith is the series' protagonist, and was introduced as a surgical intern at the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital (later Seattle Grace-Mercy West, and afterwards Grey Sloan Memorial), eventually obtaining the position of a resident, and later the position of an attending, and in 2015, attaining the Chief of General Surgery position. As the daughter of world-renowned surgeon Ellis Grey, Meredith struggles with the everyday life of being in a competitive profession, maintaining the relationship with her one-night stand and eventual husband Derek Shepherd (deceased), her motherhood, and the friendships with her colleagues."(Wikipedia)
Although my life has changed and I don't watch Meredith or Grey's Anatomy anymore, she is still relevant.  I will never forget who she was and what she represented.  She had passion and so do I...

Privilege & Imperfection

PRIVILEGES such as autonomy are very motivating to humans. Students are no exception to this.  It makes us willing to take risks, exert effort, & exercise initiative.
The privileges that motivate us as adults motivate students too.

"The significance of a man is not what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."  Kahlil Gibran (1,001 Meditations/Mike George p54)

IMPERFECTIONS make us human. Let each person do their best. If others do better, admire them without envy while trying to do better. Motivating others helps keep our motivation too.

Finding common ground

After long thought,

I support individuals & communities who align by finding commonalities.

I don't like my time here debating ideas and/or taking sides. 

14% was a good start. 

I love being a teacher, mother, wife, & woman. I want the best so its not about policing society.

It's about living.

Dedicated to Nelson Mandela. I love everything about you and may U live to see the dawn! 

Techniques to Making Instructions Clear

"The Master Teacher knows specific actions enhance clarity. These actions make it more probable that more students in our classroom will understand   our instructions." -The MASTER Teacher, Inc. c2000


From the Master Teacher Series:

Seven Techniques to Make Your Instruction Clear

1. When you give instructions, avoid asking students to "get started quickly." Otherwise, many students begin before you even finish giving the instructions.

2. Practice your presentation before you give students instructions. Rehearsals reveal flaws that almost guarantee misunderstanding. Determine what you want said based on what you want done.

3. Always start with the simple to complex route. Start with the basics before moving to the complicated part of your instructions. Give students time to ask questions. If you don't provide time for their questions early on, it increases the likelihood of misinformation, and students may not understand.

4. Providing well-organized and relevant background information almost always aids understanding. Having students write down the steps they must follow to complete an assignment or project before they begin, lays the solid foundationn necessary for students to perform the task properly.

5. Try and provide students with both written and oral instructions. However, never hand out the written instructions before you deliver the oral instructions, Also, do not communicate anything in one communication that isn't the other.

6. When repeating instructions to the class, which is inevitable at some point, be careful abut changing the wording the second (or third) time around. To achieve clarity, you must not vary from the last set, unless, it is because there was an error. In this case, it is important to clarify the error as soon as it is recognized.

7. Lastly, when finished giving instructions, ask students one specific question: "What do you need to do?" This will confirm whether students have enough information to know exatly what to do... and exactly what you expect. Further, ask a number of students exactly the same question and go from there.


Education is not filling in a pail but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet