Understanding and Working with the Unmotivated Student

Course Overview

 

In this course, we will discuss the various forms that lack of motivation can take as well as some of the possible reasons for, or functions of, the motivational issues. This understanding can help guide us in an approach based more on empathy than on frustration. The unmotivated student can be a source of frustration for parents, teachers, peers and others who are in the student’s life. Often it is equally as frustrating for the student, since this behavior can induce responses from others that are counterproductive to helping the student.

Learning Objectives

 

  • bullet pointRecognize the various forms that lack of motivation, or amotivation can take.  
  • bullet pointUnderstand the functions beneath amotivation, or the purposes it serves for the student.
    bullet pointUnderstand how motivation can be negatively impacted by trauma, substance abuse, environmental factors or an oppositional stance by a student.
    bullet pointReview interventions that school professionals have successfully used to address amotivation.
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Lessons

1
1 Minute

Pre Assessment
3
1 Minute

Understanding and Working with the Unmotivated Student Intro
4
2 Minutes

The form and function of lack of motivation or amotivation
6
5 Minutes

How trauma, substance abuse, oppositional stance and environmental factors impact motivation

unmotivated
5 Minutes

Interventions
1
1 Minute

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