MOTIVATION QUESTIONIARE

1. How do you define motivation?

2. Why is motivation relevant in the teaching practice?
3. Which motivational strategies did you learn from the video? Explain
them.
4. Mention and explain the four conditions to motivation.
5. Mention and explain the seven practical steps to motivation.

1. Motivation is the feeling that engines the desire to do something.

Motivation is the impulse, the trigger of changes in the world, bad or
good changes. Motivation comes from heart and it is different for each
human being. Motivation comes from needs, pleasures, convictions or
wishes.

2. If Students do not want to learn anything, they simply do not do it.

Motivation is relevant in teaching practice because teachers have to
break that boundry between doing something as an obligation and doing
something as a desire. Every activity that teachers design for students
has to be motivating for them, through interesting topics in which
students can feel comfortable and at ease developing them.

3. There are some motivational strategies that teachers should apply in

order to get a successful lesson: Goals in learning process should be
clear and specific, teacher should explain very carefully all lesson
contents. Also, goals should be measurable in order to be easily
evaluated; Goals should be challenging but not too demanding for each
learning level. Goals have to be considered in short and long term to be
developed and teachers have to provide the corresponding feedback in
order to help students to complete their goals successfully.

4. First Condition: Supportive Environment: Orderely classroom; Teacher

with highly developed management skills; students non-anxious and
comfortable with talking risks.
Second Condition: Difficulty level: tasks are difficult but not imposible.
Students know what they have to do. Criteria for success are clear.
Third Condition: Meaningful Learning: Activities are meaningful and
wrothwhile. Relationships between objective and activities are clear.
Students can relate content to own experience. New tasks build on and
extend existing skills. There is a learning-how-to-learn dimensin.
Fourth Condition: Moderation and Variation un strategy use.
Motivational strategy is matched to instructional nees. Particular
strategies are not overused. Teachers use a range of strategies.
5. Seven practical steps of motivation:
A .To make learning goals explicit. Share the goals to students, make
students aware fo them to become motivated. What goals are and how
to achieve goals.
B. To select content that learners can relate to.
C. Scaffold the learning process.
D. Provide the opportunites for personalization. Provide students the
chance to invest on their learning.
E. Encourage group cohesion.
F. provide opportunities for genuine communication
G. provide learners evidence of progress