ARCS

Successfully motivating someone can be done through ACRS; Attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Attention is all about getting your learners’ interested, relevance is about showing your learners’ what they are doing is useful, confidence is about instilling the idea of wanting success, and satisfaction is about learners’ being content with what they are doing. I’m most comfortable with relevance and least comfortable with satisfaction. Everything done in a classroom has a purpose and as long as you express that purpose I feel as though leaners’ will understand the relevance. When it comes to math referring to toys or candy to 3rd graders but in college making things money based. Or in science using projects that are age appropriate with real world problems that age group may encounter. However, when it comes to satisfaction I hesitate. There is a wide variety of students and each one finds satisfaction in a different way. When it comes to learning I feel that good grades are not enough to have students satisfied because they just memorized a topic once to get the grade then moved on. For real satisfaction I think students need a passion behind each subject and I’m not sure if that is feasible or not.