Motivation- Douglas Brown and answer 7 about the text

Motivation in the classroom

In the classroom, as in most areas of life, motivation is essential for a person to succeed. It is important for a teacher to have some understanding of what motivation is and how it will affect each and every student and their learning progress. Douglas Brown has a cognitive view of motivation includes factors such as the need for exploration, activity, stimulation, new knowledge, and ego enhancement.

Extrinsic motivation is caused by any number of outside factors, for example, the need to pass an exam, the hope of financial reward, the possibility of future travel, having a gift as consequence of an attitude, and so on.

Intrinsic motivation, by contrast, comes from within the individual. Here a person might be motivated by the enjoyment of the learning process itself or by a desire to make themselves feel better.

By the knowledge of the motivation theory the teacher can greatly affect the success of the student in so far as how lessons are presented, and also how the teacher in fact presents themselves to their students. The students will be influenced by the attitude of the teacher. It is very important for students’ success that the teachers has an obvious enthusiasm for teaching and a positive ‘can do’ attitude.So the teachers must be conscient of their role and the kind of motivation he/she is workingh with.


Answer about the text
Question number 7:

Parent’s and society’s ideas, values and wishes are forced into pupils, they make the institutions that dictates the school curriculum, teachers have almost any or none choices about this curriculum and students can’t chose if they want or like it. In this way the students are taught that the life is praise the teachers, authorities, families and then they can get something good as consequence like: good job, good gifts, some money and so on. The consequence of this game is that the students prefer to praise the ones whom have a good place in the society (priests, parents, authorities, bosses, etc.) instead of developing and wish of having some knowledge, experiences, good values and have their own opinion.