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Introduction
This course is designed to empower teachers, coaches, supervisors or parents to motivate their charges and to develop their volition to love, to will, to think and to make personal improvements so that they become happy and well-adjusted members of the community.
The course examines biological-psychological research and theories related to enhancing motivation and volition in young and adult learners. It helps participants to understand why some renowned persons drive themselves to success while others seem to remain in mediocrity. Participants will engage in research practices and reflections as they relate their experiences to theories and hypotheses in daily practices based on the framework of Knowledge-Volition-Action.
This course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in
Learning and Development
- FlexiMasters in Learning and Development
- MDP904 Motivation, Volition and Learning in-Action
- MDP907 How to Nurture Creative and Happy Learners (OR DP907A-C)**
- One of the following courses:
- MDP909 Assessment and Development of 21st Century Competencies (OR DP909A-C)**
- MDP906 Personality and Attitude Assessment
Upon completion of all courses, learners will fulfill the AU requirements to attain the FlexiMasters in Learning and Development (16 AU).
**Learners have to complete the entire set of modularised courses to be considered as completing one course.
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- To enable teachers, coaches, supervisors and parents to revisit the basic theories in motivation; these include intrinsic-extrinsic motivation, Maslow s Hierarchy, needs-drives, values and expectancy, achievement motivation, beliefs, attribution theory, self-efficacy, self-worth, etc.
- To introduce the concept of volition and related theories like Prospect Theory, Action Phases and Mindsets, Self-Deterministic Theory, Cloninger s Theory, etc.
- To enhance participants understanding of the problems associated with motivational and volitional attributes in young children, teenagers and adults.
- To extend participants knowledge, insights and skills to help their young charges to develop their motivation and volition in learning, decision-making, personal and interpersonal development.
- To help participants to devise research and action plans to motivate their young charges and to empower them with volitional strategies.
The joy of learning, the courage to overcome challenges, the willingness to
change for the better, to overcome procrastination and to eliminate the
fear of failure will be discussed with the intention of guiding adolescents to
set meaningful life goals and to activate them. Whether lofty goals will ever
reach the plane of action will be examined in the light of volitional
threshold and the framework of Knowledge-Volition-Action. School
problems, including addictive behaviours, associated with a lack of
motivation or over motivation, and volitional malfunction will be featured
for teachers and counselors to apply their understanding and to develop
creative strategies to enhance the learning of the students.
Standard Course Fee: S$4,490.80
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$4,120.00 | S$1,347.24 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$523.24 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
MDP906 Personality and Attitude Assessment | 4 |
| MDP907 How to Nurture Creative and Happy Learners* | 4 |
DP907A Discovering My Creative Self: A Psychological Journey | 1 |
DP907B Discovering My Happy Self: A Psychological Journey | 1 |
DP907C Discovering My Creative & Happy Self: Further In & Further Out | 2 |
MDP909 Assessment and Development of 21st Century Competencies | 4 |
DP909A Principles and Perspectives of Assessing 21st Century Competencies | 1 |
DP909B Designing Task and Rubric for Assessing 21st Century Competencies | 1 |
DP909C Assessing 21st Century Competencies | 2 |
Listed courses are:
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Learning and Development (total 12AUs) and FlexiMasters in Learning and Development (total 16AUs)
*SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
