Motivation in Learning

Motivation to learn is the desire to learn. It greatly influences how quickly as how a person learns. It is generally greatest when a person recognizes needs and believes the need will be met through learning. It is not enough for the need to be identified and verbalized by the educator but rather the learner himself must be the one to be able to experience identifying his own need as a term used to describe acting forces on or within an organism to mutate direct and maintain behavior and to explain differences in the intense of direction of behavior.

Importance of Motivation
1. 2. 3. 4. Increase attraction of and persistence in activities. Direct behavior toward particular goals Lead to increased effort and energy Lead to improve performance

Sources of Motivation:
In general, explanations are regarding the sources of motivation can be categorized as either extrinsic or intrinsic. Sources of Motivational Needs EXTRINSIC (behavioral/external) Elicited by stimulus associated/ connected to innately connected stimulus. Obtain desire, pleasant consequences, unpleasant consequences INTRINSIC Social Imitate positive models. Be a part of a group or a valued member Biological Increase/ decrease stimulation Activate senses Decrease hunger, thirst, discomfort

Cognitive Maintain attention to something interesting or threatening Develop meaning or understanding

Increase/ decrease cognitive disequilibrium; uncertainty Solve a problem or make a decision

Affective Increase/ decrease affective dissonance Increase feeling good Increase feeling bad Increase security of or decrease threats to self esteem Maintain levels of optimism and enthusiasm

Conative Meet individually developed/ selected goal Obtain personal dream Develop or maintain self- efficacy Take control of ones life Eliminate threats to meeting goal, obtaining dream Reduce others control to ones life

Spiritual Understand purpose of ones life Connect self to the Ultimate unknown

Learning Principles to Use In Motivating Learners

1. Use several senses People retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see, 50% of what they hear and see, 70% of what they say and 90% of what they say and do. Based on this principle, learning is more likely to occur if the clients are allowed to practice what they are being taught. 2. Actively involve This principle relates to teaching methods used, whether they are passive or active. Passive methods include methods include lecture, videos, and print materials. While this does allow learning is much more enhanced if more active methods are used. 3. Provide an environment conducive to learning Ideally, a room should have a good lighting, temperature control and comfortable seating with enough spaces between seats.

4. Assess the extent to which the learner is ready to learn In general, people learn only if they are emotionally and physically ready. 5. Determine the perceive relevance of the information People generally are willing to learn what they perceive as being important. The easiest way to determine what is important and what is not is to simply ask. 6. Repeat information Repetition enhances learning. When new information is presented, it should be repeated several times, in variety of way. 7. Generalize information Information is more readily learned if it is applied to more than one situation. 8. Make learning a pleasant experience Learning is enhanced if the learning experience is pleasant. This could be accomplished through frequent encouragement and positive feedback. 9. Begin with what is known and move to what is unknown Information should be presented in an organized fashion. It should begin with the basic or generalized information that which is unknown. 10. Present information at an appropriate rate Nothing is more frustrating to a student than to have new information presented at such a rapid pace.

Prepared by: Juliann S. Aragon