Day 4: Learning difficulties and motivation
These slides contain the material on motivation and some practical tips you can use to help you as a learning instructor.
Sara Rönkkönen, a specialist from Aalto AllWell-study wellbeing initiative, was our visitor today.
- The acivities in this course are placed in three groups:
- Teacher-led
- Lectures
- Guest lectures
- Student discussions/reflection in pairs or groups
- Teacher-teacher discussions
- Student-teacher discussions
- Group work
- Gallery walk
- Making posters
- Drama/play acting
- Learning café
- Group meetings
- Other activities
- Observation
- Writing
- Ways to form groups
- Change of rhythm of activities
- Breaks
- Use of cards to break the ice
- Feedback
- on paper
- via presemo
- oral (as part of lecture)
- learning cafe
- Teacher-led
This assignment is meant for those who could not attend to the last session.
Read and study the materials for session 4 -> both general slides and Sara Rönkkönen's Panopto-video part. Both slide sets touch upon motivation as well. Reflect on the content of the slides and think at least about the following:
- how can you as a teaching assistant (in your course) support students' study well-being?
- How could you support students' study motivation - you can include practical examples
- How can you support your own motivation to work as a teaching assistant?
- You can also write how you would like to develop as a TA
Write about a one page to a page-and-a-half of text for this assignment.