Motivation

Motivation with students is often hard to with students. Keeping them motivated can often times be a challenging. Within in another class I learned the importance of theories when it comes to education, Motivation was indeed my favorite. Motivation is my favorite thing to talk about when it comes to working with students. Every student needs to be motivated in many different ways. Often times I lack motivation myself but it just depends on what helps to get me through. Motivation for each student is different which is why I love it so much; each child needs something different to get them involved with their learning. When a student is motivated their energy comes from within. There are two types of motivations, intrinsic and extrinsic. When I think of intrinsic motivation I think about an inner drive to achieve. This meanings doing something for internal rewards. They do not need to be a gift or reward present for the student to feel accomplished. When I came to college this was the motivation I grew to learn. Extrinsic motivation is what most students have throughout elementary school to high school even, their environment is what motivates them, knowing there is a reward that will be present once a task is completed. Often what you want the students to grown out off prior to college, began rewards are rare so to stay encouraged it has to be through inner motivations.

The Behavioral Learning Theory this deals with how students learning through their interactive behaviors. The Music Model theory is a great way to think about how to motivate students. Empowerment is about making the student feel they are in control of their learning. I think this is so important, and example of empowerment may be allowing the students to select the type of lesson taught for the day or giving them roles in the classroom. U is for usefulness which is kind of self-explanatory, students love to work when things make sense to them so making a lesson relate to them will keep them engaged in their learning. S is for success, as a teacher wanting your students to be successful is the main reason for any lesson taught.  Interest is capturing the students and keeping them involved. While learning to right lesson plans keeping students interested is honestly the hardest part, there can be students who are easily involved and others who aren’t. Caring, making sure that the students think about their success and that as your teacher care for your students. A mindset is big for Motivation it is all about how you think you can be motivated 

Ways to make keep students motivated:

https://teach.com/what/teachers-change-lives/teachers-motivate/

 http://www.teachhub.com/top-12-ways-motivate-students