Keeping Track of Motivational Progress
- Part 1: For Those Who Lack Motivation
- Part 2: Effects of the Lack of Motivation on School and Home Behavior
- Part 3: Theoretical Framework for the Lack of Motivation
- Part 4: Developmentally Appropriate Strategies to Meet the Lack of Motivation at School
- Part 5: Developmentally Appropriate Strategies to Meet the Lack of Motivation at Home
- Part 6: Keeping Track of Motivational Progress
Part 6: Keeping Track of Motivational Progress
“Prompting progress monitoring improves behavioral performance and the likelihood of attaining one’s goals” (American, 2015). Assessing your scholar’s success is important. This gives credibility to the steps you have taken to provide a wealth of motivation for the scholar and that even your own efforts can be encouraging! One way to do this is by evaluating the progress students are making in answering questions correctly and providing an increasing number of happy faces they receive for a lesson. At the end, you can count the amount of happy faces they receive for a day or week and write the amount down on a chart to look at. You can also keep a total tally of those happy faces. This provides a sense of immediate gratification as well as a demonstration of progress made. This also means that the scholar is tracking the successes and not the failures.
In order for the scholar to be autonomous, self-awareness is a key tool for tracking progress and motivation. When you understand more about yourself, you can improve your motivational progress with intention. This intention allows for better outcomes that can be applied to various contexts. This includes:
- Knowing how long you can spend on an assignment before you should take a break.
- Knowing how long it takes you to complete certain assignments and scheduling accordingly.
- Choosing the environments that cater to better progress
- Accomplishing tasks at a reasonable time of the day that leads to better productivity