Domestic animal behaviour and welfare - The concept of motivation

Description:

Couse title: Domestive animal behaviour and welfare

Small classroom teaching
3 x 45 min, held once a week.
Topic of session: The concept of motivation
Curriculum: textbook chapter

Out-of-class:
Reading textbook chapter, watching 10 min video lecture (incl. the learning goal of the session), watching 1 min video clip of animals interacting. The students are asked to reflect on the motivations that might be at play in the video and bring it to the class.

In-class:
Introductory round. This is the first time I am meeting the students and only the second session of the course. Several of the students are not expected to know each other.

Think-pair-share on the video clip watch out-of-class.

Lecture part 1 incl. repeating the learning goal of the session and specific outcomes (specific concepts we will work with doing class). The lecture is broken up by a small exercise where a concept with a funny story is looked up online (the Coolidge effect).

Exercise 1: In pairs the students will be assigned a figure from the textbook chapter that they need to read and understand. They will then present it to another pair. In a third group they will present the figure they were presented in the second pair.

Lecture part 2: will introduce them to a 'hot topic' in current research relevant for the concept of motivation but which is outside of the curriculum, I will make them aware that is it not curriculum before starting.

Exercise 2: written exercise (aligning with the written final exam) defining and exemplifying the concepts from the textbook. The students are allowed - and slightly encourage - to use ChatGPT and to use it critically.

'Ticket-out-the-door': The in-class session is ended by student evaluation of teaching activities by rating each from 1-5.

Out-of-class: at the end of the session a quiz with 5-10 multiple choice questions are opened online on selected concepts from session. The quiz is not graded.