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Active Learning – Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
Find out why the joy experienced when you achieve a goal you have set for your self is so important for children's development of effective learning.Good for looking at
- The characteristics of effective teaching and learning
- Intrinsic motivation
- Achieving a goal
- Persistance
- Concentration
- Autonomy
- Self-regulation
- Social learning
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- The rewards for the learning
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- that can take place
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- from self-chosen activities is intrinsic.
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- The child gains a sense of accomplishment.
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- She was motivated to achieve something from inside herself.
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- She's becoming a self-regulated learner.
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- Learning from external praise and rewards from adults
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- doesn't result in the self-regulated learning.
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- Yeah, I haven't been decorated yet.
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- Hasn't got anything on.
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- I know, it hasn't been decorated yet.
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- And this is not going very well.
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- Why don't you get some glue on the bottom.
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- And then, do you know what, I'm putting it on.
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- Look, tada!
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- Take it off and when I'm playing with it,
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- soon it will just come off, when I'm picking it up
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- by the handle.
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- Evie put some glue on it.
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- When children are intrinsically motivated
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- towards their own goals
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- they're much more likely to persist and concentrate.
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- They want to be autonomous.
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- Push it down hard.
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- What is Evie making?
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- She's making maker's monkey.
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- Maker's monkey is a kind of train, tada.
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- Oh, that's still not working either.
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- How 'bout some tape?
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- That would definitely work.
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- But, I don't think it will, because look.
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- It will have to stick on here and the other side
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- will have to be sticky.
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- I know how it will be sticky.
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- I know, it's really sticky with this on.
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- Tada!
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- Glued it on.
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- That's good!
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- Social interactions are also an important part
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- of being motivated to learn.
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- The learning can be shared.
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- It's enjoyable.
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- They learn from and imitate each other.
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- It's a bit slippery.
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- I do it nearly.
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- I did it!
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- We are doing it.
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- It's too heavy.
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- I nearly doing it.
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- Wait, I got it.
