Student Teachers’ Views Regarding the Impact of Effective Teaching Strategies on Student Motivation

Abstract

The study attempts to identify student teachers’ views on the impact of effective teaching strategies regarding student’s motivational levels. The participants of this descriptive study include 144 student teachers enrolled in four departments (primary education, mathematics education, chemistry education, physics education and secondary mathematics education) of Faculty of Education in a university in Ankara, Turkey. The data were collected through a questionnaire including 22 teaching strategies. The main results of the study indicated that the participants regarded ‘paying importance to communicate’ as the most important strategy (Mean=4.74) whereas they considered ‘use of different classroom arrangements’ as the least important strategy (Mean=3.48) to motivate students. In light of these results, it is possible to note that there are many things that can still be investigated about motivation in educational context which should be studied in future research

Keywords

• Motivation, effective teaching strategies, descriptive study, student teachers

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