Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Start Date: 14 Nov, 2022
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Understand how to promote motivation in Gen Z learners to achieve your teaching goals with a positive educational experience.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Explore the learning styles that suit Gen Z
Gen Z learners are between nine and twenty-two years old, making up the majority of students currently in the education system.
On this four-week course, you’ll learn to better understand Gen Z and importantly, what motivates them to learn.
Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or professional working closely with Gen Z, this course will help you build a repertoire of strategies to enhance motivation in Gen Z learners.
It will equip you with the skills and knowledge of motivational theories and their application in real-life contexts.
Learn different teaching approaches to increase motivation
Through various sessions, you’ll explore practical teaching approaches to get Gen Z’s ready and excited to learn.
You’ll explore key motivational concepts and the behaviourist approach to motivation to understand how learning is enhanced when basic needs are fulfilled.
Following the storyline of two children, Bob and Sarah, you’ll be presented with a variety of problem scenarios. These depict common motivational issues that you can resolve using the motivational principles taught on the course.
Overcome generational differences and make education positive
You’ll address variables that can affect motivation to learn such as generational differences, the neuroscience of learning, and diversity.
You’ll also examine positive psychology and mindfulness as a classroom tool. This course will put you in the right mindset to engage and motivate young people whilst achieving your own learning and teaching goals.
This course is for parents and teachers who sometimes struggle to engage their students or children with learning. We’ll go through generational differences, the neuroscience of learning and some really practical teaching approaches to get Gen Z’s ready and excited to learn. We will touch on diversity within the classroom and positive psychology/mindfulness as a classroom tool. It’s all about mindset and this course won’t just teach you how to engage and motivate young people, it will put you in the right mindset to achieve your own learning and teaching goals.
Gen Z learners are between 9 and 22 years old, as such this course is targeted mainly at the teen years and from upper primary through to undergraduates.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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