tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post6326017320020512350..comments2023-07-05T06:55:53.577-04:00Comments on College Ready Writing: Motivating StudentsLee Skallerup Bessette, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12243750156552824701noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529647435872563341.post-10738370633260258622011-09-28T07:38:20.932-04:002011-09-28T07:38:20.932-04:00There is another thread to the motivation tangle -...There is another thread to the motivation tangle - society and culture need to take their share of the responsibility and not leave all the weight on the individual student. Many years ago I took a grad class on student motivation and was shocked the first night when the prof explained that the class would focus on the macro-causes - society and culture - rather than the micro-causes (student character). That class forever shaped my perspective on motivation. Insiders/outsiders/racism/language barriers/life....<br />And another issue is in the pattern of instruction over the years: I have my college reading students write an autobiography of themselves as readers, and consistently they write about how they loved reading til sometime in middle school, when they started to hate it because of the assigned readings. What are we doing that teaches our students to hate to read???HeyTeach101http://to-read-to-write.com/noreply@blogger.com