Active learning (motivation)
-Being Involved and concentrating
-Keeping on trying
-Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
What adults can do to support this...
- support children to choose their activities-what they want to do and how they will do it
- stimulate children's interest through shared attention, and calm over-stimulated children
- Help children to become aware of their own goals, make plans, and to review their own progress and successes. Describe what you see them trying to do, and encourage children to talk about their own processes and successes
- Be specific when you praise, especially noting effort such as how the child concentrates, tries different approaches, persists, solves problems, and has new ideas.
- Encourage children to learn together and from each other.
- Children develop their own motivations when you give reasons and talk about learning, rather than just directing.
What adults could provide...
- Children will become more deeply involved when you provide something that is new and unusual for them to explore, especially when it is linked to their interests.
- Notice what arouses children’s curiosity, looking for signs of deep involvement to identify learning that is intrinsically motivated.
- Ensure children have time and freedom to become deeply involved in activities.
- Children can maintain focus on things that interest them over a period of time. Help them to keep ideas in mind by talking over photographs of their previous activities.
- Keep significant activities out instead of routinely tidying them away.
- Make space and time for all children to contribute
(Taken from the EYFS)
