| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 數理教育研究所 === 91 === The purpose of this research was to investigate the thinking sources, methods and outcomes of the motivational strategies of a science teacher” Miss Dai”. The methods of data collection included as following: the observation in classroom, the interview of teachers and students, the student survey, and other related documents. Then we used “ ARCS Motivation Theory” to analysis the teaching strategies of this science teacher and used “Instructional Material Motivation Survey” to analysis the outcomes. Finally, the major findings were as follows:
1.The thinking sources of motivational strategies:
The major thinking sources of the teacher were：(1) all kinds of the science textbook (2) the books and periodicals about science (3) the talking contents of students and teacher (4) teaching group co-operation (5) re-conceptions of science teaching and action research.
2.Motivational strategies:
The major motivational strategies of the teacher were：(1) Attention: using audio-visual to show teaching material, science stories telling, using magic to show science experiments, asking life-questions, using teaching aids and changing different environments; (2) Relevance: teaching material base on students’ previous experience, using life-examples, analogy teaching, teaching material base on students’ interests, cooperative learning with good friends; (3) Confidence: telling students teaching goals before school term, the condition of successful learning, admiring for students, class discussing, esteeming students’ multiple intelligences, confiding in students. (4) Satisfaction: understanding each student, controlling teaching time well, encouraging students to study, writing good words on the worksheets, well assessment. This research also found that each step of teaching style“5-E’ Learning Cycles” has many motivational strategies.
3. Outcomes of motivational strategies:
The motivation grades of the science teacher ”Miss Dai” were better than the control teachers. The teacher got the most motivation grades at “Satisfaction” and the least motivation grades at “Confidence”.
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