Motivation, Performance, and Your Student, Grades 1st- 8th Motivation is a very important factor in personal and academic performance. This article focuses on students ' motivation and how it can enhance performance, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and strategies to affect motivation and increase positive performance. Motivation can be thought of as the cause of a particular behavior, or the drive created by wanting or needing something. (Funk & Wagnalls, 2015) For our students, the type of motivation, or need, that we are focusing on is related to academic and personal achievement and performance. We will identify techniques to enhance a student 's ability to self-motivate as well as strategies that teachers and parents can use to
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Two types of motivation to keep in mind while reading this article are, intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation occurs when a student is interested and intrigued by a subject, and due to interest, is drawn to fully engage with that subject. This type of motivation leads to high levels of academic achievement as well as a high levels of retention of information. (Ormrode, J.E., 2014) Examples of intrinsic motivation include reading a book about a favorite topic, playing an instrument for the sake of pure enjoyment, and playing a sport because one loves it. Extrinsic motivation occurs when outside consequences or influences are the driving factor of an elicited behavior. (Ormrode, J.E., 2014) Examples of extrinsic motivation include; reading a book because everyone else has read it, playing an instrument to gain approval of a parent, and playing a sport to earn a scholarship to college. It is important to keep these two types of motivation in mind to help devise techniques and strategies that will motivate our students and help students motivate …show more content…
As you continue to work with your student, they will eventually develop their own strategies to self-motivate and improve performance. Keep it dynamic, there is no one question or technique for all students, so trial and error may be necessary. And lastly, enjoy identifying strategies with your students, exploring learning and motivating techniques is rewarding and well worth the time
Two types of motivation to keep in mind while reading this article are, intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation occurs when a student is interested and intrigued by a subject, and due to interest, is drawn to fully engage with that subject. This type of motivation leads to high levels of academic achievement as well as a high levels of retention of information. (Ormrode, J.E., 2014) Examples of intrinsic motivation include reading a book about a favorite topic, playing an instrument for the sake of pure enjoyment, and playing a sport because one loves it. Extrinsic motivation occurs when outside consequences or influences are the driving factor of an elicited behavior. (Ormrode, J.E., 2014) Examples of extrinsic motivation include; reading a book because everyone else has read it, playing an instrument to gain approval of a parent, and playing a sport to earn a scholarship to college. It is important to keep these two types of motivation in mind to help devise techniques and strategies that will motivate our students and help students motivate …show more content…
As you continue to work with your student, they will eventually develop their own strategies to self-motivate and improve performance. Keep it dynamic, there is no one question or technique for all students, so trial and error may be necessary. And lastly, enjoy identifying strategies with your students, exploring learning and motivating techniques is rewarding and well worth the time