From your experience, what are some of the affective factors that you encounter in your classrooms? How do they interfere in learning?How do lower the affective filter? Many of you work with children. What are some of the issues concerning motivation with children? How do address motivation in the classroom? Can you motivate them or does motivation come from within?
According about what we read and what we review in class, extroversion and inhibition, are affective factors, that more influence in the classroom. A classroom is a small society, with people from different cultural background, beliefs, and characteristics that determine the style of learning of each student and the learning strategies the teacher implement.
An extrovert student most of the cases help to maintain an active class, because they participate, and motivate others to learn from them, on the contrary, inhibited students tend to be more quiet, they do not intervene in class or with their classmates because they are shy.
On the other hand, motivation in class works in many ways. For instance, the teacher attitude toward the class or toward some theme or topic, students attitude toward class or activities, and the most important one, the student's intrinsic motivation. Because as teacher we do not always know what is in their heads or family matters that are affecting children's motivation.
Finally, addressing motivation, is not an easy aspect to deal with, but we need to try to find ways to activate a positive intrinsic or extrinsic motivation in the students.
Juanita A.
3 comments:
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Juanita,
I agree with you, there are many factors a teacher should consider with the issue of motivation. For example, intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, which one works best for the student. As I stated before in my blog, a teacher must know her learners' and accommodate their individual needs.
Hola Juanita,
You are right, motivating students either in an intrinsic or extrinsic way is hard, especially if you don't know how child thinks or feels (wich happens with shy students that do not express their opinions). However, when a set of procedures and routines are set and students see the rewards with other students (could be intrinsic or extrinsic) they get motivated to follow the behavior and began opening up little by little. That is one of the reasons we have to differenciate instruction according to learning styles and personalities.
See you Tues. Erika.
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