Module 5

Chapter 12 in our book is titled “Motivation in Learning and Teaching.”  As it can probably be guessed by the title of the chapter, this chapter mainly talked about the different factors that make up the motivation which students have and how a teacher can play off those factors. The term that I found most interesting in this chapter was extrinsic motivation. The reason why it stood out to me so much because I just got done writing my seven-page paper on that topic last week, and to be quite honest, I would have been okay not seeing it again for a couple of months. Long story short, extrinsic motivation is any type of reward that is given to a student for a task they would not have done if a reward was not present. 
The second chapter that we read this week was chapter 14. This promptly named “Teaching Every Student.” To be quite honest, this chapter had quite a bit of info that I think should be common sense to people who have made it this far in college. For example, “Warmth, friendliness, and understanding seem to be the teacher traits most strongly associated with students’ liking the teacher and the class in general (Hamann, Baker,  McAllister, & Bauer, 2000; K. Madsen, 2003).” One thing that did stand out to me in the chapter was the sustaining expectation effect. This is where a teacher sets a certain level of difficulty in their classroom but does not “raise the bar” when students are meeting the goals that were set in front of them. 
The last chapter that we got the pleasure to read about this week was based entirely around classroom assessment, grading, and standardized testing. This chapter covers topics that other courses should have covered for everyone in this class such as formative assessments and summative assessments. The one thing that stood out to me in this chapter was testing to see if a test is valid. I never really considered how much work went into determining if a test should be valid or not. As I study more and more of the teaching profession, I feel like I am getting less and less surprised by things I didn’t know, but there are always outliers like this topic.

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