Course Overview
Summary
What motivates an individual? How do we use motivation to fuel the cohesiveness of our teams and also influence the children that we serve? This online course will explore everything you need to know about the brain, and how it influences intrinsic drivers. We will also explore the terms approach motivation and avoidance motivation and the impacts on early childhood providers.
Learning Objectives
- Define the term motivation.
- Understand the underlying mechanisms in the brain that stem from child development relating to motivation.
- Understand 3 components of motivation
- Be able to define intrinsic drivers and extrinsic feedback as related to child development and motivation.
- Understand the terms "approach motivation" and "avoidance motivation" as related to child development and teams.
- Understand how action (taking action first) can produce motivation to initiate movement within teams and team members.
Approved Endorsement Competencies
- Listening
- Exercising sound judgment
- Maintaining perspective
