This curriculum about motivation, learning, and feedback is available as an in-person or virtual workshop. The recommended session length for this curricula is a half-day.
There are two types of audiences ideal for this curriculum.
- Educators: including teachers, professors, advisors, counselors, and administrators.
- Managers: including business group leaders, team leaders, and project directors.
Workshop Abstract
Throughout our lifetime, we get tons of feedback, and the feedback we receive affects our motivation. Feedback and support from others is a source of our self-efficacy — the belief we have in ourselves to accomplish a task. Using a simple formula, we can adjust our feedback to be a super-booster for self-efficacy in others, through what I call, “Sticky Feedback.” In this course, you will learn how you can better encourage others to reach their goals.
Guiding Questions and Objectives
- What are the sources of motivation?
- Participants will examine sources of motivation.
- How does motivation affect learning?
- Participants will be able to apply the natural learning process.
- How do you give feedback that boosts motivation?
- Participants will be able to give effective feedback that can boost motivation and self-efficacy.
What is Sticky Feedback?
Sticky feedback is encouragement and feedback that STICKS WITH YOU and helps boost your motivation and self-efficacy to continue.
There is a simple formula for Sticky Feedback: Sticky Feedback = Mastery Experience + Social Persuasion + Acknowledgement of Effort.
Recorded Half Day Workshop
This workshop was delivered to Bossier Parish Community College on 2021-01-11. We had about 50 participants. The recording has been edited to trim out lulls and breaks.
Resources Shared
- How Learning Happens, PDF Download
- Planner Page, PDF Download (Based on Motivation Theory)
- Slide Handouts, PDF Download
- The Neuroscience of Learning ~5-min Video
- Sticky Feedback ~5-min Video
- Neurons & Synapses ~5-min Video
- Power of Yet Song by Janelle Monae and Sesame Street
- NPR Article: Stop saying smart, Dr. Carol Dweck
- We're Born to Learn, Dr. Rita Smilkstein
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Dr. Carol Dweck
