Six C’s of motivation: Wang, S. & Han, S. (2001). Six C’s of Motivation
I felt that I had to write about the Six C’s of Motivation, especially after seeing that Dan, Samantha and Tim found it both useful and interesting.
Motivation is an integral component in the classroom environment. If a student doesn’t have motivation to learn, then their ability to do well in class will be no where near their potential.
Wang and Han have come up with different strategies to increase student’s classroom motivation. Their six strategies are known as the Six C’s. These six different strategies provide a good framework for a teacher; it is also valuable when designing an e-learning task in the primary school classroom. In doing an e-learning task allows students and teachers some variety in the classroom, therefore motivating them.
These Six C’s include:
1. Choice – In providing students with clear choices amongst alternatives may improve motivation
2. Challenge – By providing tasks that go beyond the student’s level of skill, challenges them and consequently forces the students out of their ‘comfort zone’ which motivates them to work harder.
3. Control – In my experience, students work better, and are more motivated to work if they are given some control in the classroom.
4. Collaboration – Students can share learning strategies and different perspectives may be shared through social interaction
5. Construct meaning – It is important for teachers to set meaningful goals for their students. In doing so students have something valuable to work towards, this is always easier and more interesting then work towards nothing clearly stated. This is a big part of the students constructing meaning
6. Consequences – The final C, consequences, is very much about the students being proud of their work, and sharing it with other people (students, teachers, family etc). This is very important for students, as it is also a way of motivating students for future works. It can give them more confidence and gives them something to work towards.
A positive idea which makes this strategy even more appealing is the fact that it is very flexible, is easy to adapt and may be modified to any lesson.
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