Motivation: Are We Doing It Right?

The short answer is no

By: Didi Cooper

I recently wrote an educational blog post about how we often misinterpret unmotivated behavior in students as being lazy, when in reality they are NOT unmotivated. Research is plentiful on motivation and The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard explains that dopamine and serotonin pathways trigger regions of the brain in such a way…