Teacher’s Motivation for Applying the Unplugged MEMA Method for Early Programming Teaching

Teachers’ motivation is crucial for the application of innovations in their teaching. Therefore, it is important to find out what factors promote teachers’ intrinsic and/or extrinsic motivation so that the innovation is accepted and used in the classroom. This paper points out the need to understand the factors that motivate teachers to use the Unplugged MEMA method for early programming teaching. In this context, ways to motivate current and future teachers to use the MEMA method over time are identified, and possible motivating factors are explained using the existing conceptual model of educational innovation adoption. The results of this work may help create a teacher education model for the future application of the MEMA method and the implementation of similar innovations in the classroom.