CHOICE THEORY GOAL THEORY

- Is a biological theory that suggest we are born with specific need

that we are genetically instructed to satisfy. ‘’Learning goals versus performance goals.’’

BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS: LEARNING GOALS

 BELONGING AND CONNECTING - Desire to acquire additional knowledge or master new skills.
 POWER OR COMPETENCE
 FREEDOM PERFORMANCE GOALS
 FUN - Desire to look good and receive favorable judgements from others
or else look bad and receive unfavorable judgments.

‘’The goal that is intrinsically-motivated, the ideal student is

1. BELONGING OR CONNECTING
- Motivate us to develop relationships and cooperate with others.
Without the need of belonging and cooperating, we would only
strive in independent.
2. POWER OR COMPETENCE
- Power is gained through competence, achievement and mastery.
Our genetic instruction is to achieve, master new skills and to be
recognized for our accomplishments.
3. FREEDOM
- Human also motivated to be free, to choose. Having choices is part
of what it means to be human and is one reason our species has
been able to evolve, adapt and thrive.
4. FUN
- Sometimes we learn something new, we are having fun, another
universal human motivator. It is our playfulness and our sense of
discovery that allows us to learn as much as we do.
‘’To motivate our students for learning we should satisfy their
need to belong, their need to have power by being competent,
the need to have a free choice, and the need to enjoy learning
and have fun.’’
the student with learning goal. The student with a learning
goal is mastery-focused while the student with a performance
goal is performance focused.’’
SELF-DETERMINED GOALS
Personally relevant goals and self-determined goals enhance a
student’s motivation. When lesson objectives are relevant to
the life of students, then students turn out to be more
motivated to learn.
GOAL SETTING
As a motivational tool, goal setting is effective when the
following major elements are present: 1) Goal acceptance 2)
Specificity 3)Challenge 4) Performance Monitoring 5)
Performance Feedback
S- specific
M- measurable

A- attainable

R- result-oriented and ;

T- time-bound