Intrinsic Motivation And Effective Learning

Motivation According to the text, “ Therefore, motivation to learn can be defined as the psychological process that direct and sustain student’s behavior toward learning.” (Moreno 328) In other words, motivation is a mental desire that comes from your mind when you find something familiar that matches with your comfort level towards learning. For example, when is child motivated? They are motivated when they are given the activities they are actually interested in. If the lesson is out of what they expected it to be, then, automatically they lose their interest on doing it. One claim that can be made is, Effective Learning occurs when teacher promotes Intrinsic Motivation in the classroom. “Intrinsic Motivation is defined as the

For example, there is times, when the lessons are made based on the students interest, but the students doesn't seem to do the work. It’s because it’s a bad day, they have little to no motivation, they just don’t want to do it or they are going through hard time or family issues. When this time come, the only option is getting the works done by rewarding them. Otherwise, they really don’t care. It’s better to have things done by rewarding instead of wasting time by not having done anything. “When a teacher always focuses on the importance of learning a concept because students will need it to perform well in high-stakes tests, she creates an environment that induces extrinsic motivation.” (Moreno 330) In other words, there are most of the time, students have to learn formulas and concepts that are used in the exams in order to pass them. And as the level goes higher and harder, they feel unmotivated and that fear that they will never be able to learn that. Then the teacher has to use the extrinsic motivation in order to focus and learn the concepts. For example, telling them that if they work hard and learn the materials to use in exams, then, she will throw a party. This way they will learn and pass the exam and also getting a