Classroom Motivation Statement

The topics that interest me most in the Ganske article was the topics of motivation and time, organization, and classroom management. Both areas, at least to me, co-exist with one another. Not only for the students, but for the teacher themselves. Teaches need to motivate and teach their students skills such as organizing their work, but students can teach the educator valuable lessons they could apply to classroom lessons. The learning process, as I have learned, is an ongoing cycle, which starts with the desire to learn.
One of the biggest hurdles of education, is having the right motivation. Without it, the student will not get much from the classroom, then another student that is doing their work and completing their assignment. Students …show more content…
Years ago, my own mother went online to obtain a degree. My mother wasn’t sufficiently technically literate at the time. My mom was determined to do well in this course, so enlisted me to help her. I taught her how to save a document in the proper place, and I taught her how to respond to the discussion forums. It was stressful for my mother to learn important information about computers. My mother was a curious learner, and would ask me questions when what I was teaching her wasn’t so clear. It was my mother’s desire to learn and motivation that made her a successful student. My mother also ended up teaching me how to motivate …show more content…
You can’t teach motivation if the student doesn’t have any, and without basic skills are lost. As a teacher, taking time to reach the student would benefit them more in the end. My goal for this course, is to learn more about how to motivate students to learn things outside their comfort zones. I want to learn how to incorporate individual learning, plus group learning. I plan on making use of group discussion and getting to know other educators. I learn that my peers are good resources when