Motivation Education

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Motivation Education Defined

     Motivation Education uses an organized set of teaching tools to structure youth learning into exciting actions with real world meaning. Instructors and the development team identify the authentic actions and experiences of real world role models and mold them into a learning matrix of activities and exercises, exceptional visual media and teaching techniques. The daily and weekly learning matrices focus on role playing, simulations and visual media that enable the participants to experience the daily work and lives of the role models whom they study and emulate through hands-on experiences and the application of youths' vivid imagination. The learning matrix is a tool that is easily applied to a variety of settings and topics. It allows both formal and informal educators to readily organize and structure their out-of-school youth programs in ways that motivate youth learning while including national educational standards and benchmarks for the topics chosen. Motivation Education is a model that applies easily to after school, summer and weekend youth and family programs that have educational goals.