Enhancing Motivation and Learning among Diverse Students
Enhancing Motivation and Learning among Diverse Students
Jason Leggett
This faculty interest group will be reading Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching in College by Dr. Margery Ginsberg & Dr. RJ Wlodkowski (2009), which responds to the question
How can post-secondary instructors more consistently support student motivation across
diverse student groups? (p. VII). To achieve this the authors provide a motivational
framework that: 1) respects diversity; 2) engages the motivation of a broad range
of students; 3) creates a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environment; 4)
derives teaching practices from across disciplines and cultures; and 5) promotes equitable
learning. In this FIG, facilitated by Jason Leggett (History, Philosophy, and Political
Science), participants will read and discuss the book and consider how this framework
applies to our classrooms here at Kingsborough. For more information or to join, please
contact Jason at jason.leggett@kbcc.cuny.edu. Please also check out our wiki.