Introduction
Enhancing learning for students involves more than just being able to apply general learning and teaching principles or guidelines. In Educational Studies 1: Classroom Learning and Student Development, we have been learned about how students learn. Most importantly, it involves inquiry-based activities which familiarize us with the roles of teachers in promoting learning and catering for student diversity and individual differences.
Throughout the past lessons, one of the most influential, inspiring theories is the theories of motivation to understand and improve educational processes, which means helping our students see the true value of what they are doing and giving them reasonable expectation of success in achieving it. At the beginning, my
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Student will tend to behave what the teacher expects. ( Sustaining effect). Otherwise, no motivated activity occurs.
The importance of the motivation of learning
Why do we need to study Chinese? What will we use Chinese for in the future? Can I get high marks without studying or understanding the Chinese vocabularies? Those are question students always ask about any subject that does not interest them.
The importance of motivation is to let students to study because they have desires or interests. It’s not because of the requirement of the curriculum. In fact, all teachers want their students to study because the process of study gives them satisfaction and enjoyment. It’s hard that to push students who show little or no interest in certain subject to learn.
So what would it take to get such children interested in learning? The answer is to maximize students’ intrinsic motivation to learn.
Enhancing students’ motivation in