1 INDUCTION TRAINING PROGRAMME
Dec 30, 2015
Motivation is typically defined as the forces that account for the arousal, selection, direction, and continuation of behavior.
Motivation is a stimulus, external or internal that enhances the energy level in an individual.
-- Swami Sukhabodhananda
Motivation is a process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction and persistence of effort towards attaining a Goal.
-- Stephen B.Robins
Student motivation naturally has to do with students' desire to participate in the learning process
It also concerns the reasons or goals that underlie their involvement or noninvolvement in academic activities
“There is and there can be no teaching where the attention of the scholar is not secured. The teacher who fails to get the attention of his scholars, fails totally.”
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron.”
More concerned with motivation in a situation-specific state--getting students to learn information that they are not necessarily interested in learning.
A Universal Principle of motivation
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME ?
(WIIFM principle)
Self-interest is the greatest motivator
The effort people will expend on a task is a product of:
The degree to which they expect to be successful if they apply themselves.
The benefits successful task completion will bring to them.
Capitalize on students' existing needs.
Make students active participants in learning
Analyze what makes classes more or less motivating
Three Major Goals of an Interest Approach
Get the attention of the students Create a mental set Create uncertainty. This leads to a felt need
to know more!
Create a Mental Set
Ask about their experiences
Determine a baseline of information
Begin to focus on the topic
Create uncertainty leading to a felt need to know more!
Ultimate goal of an interest approach!
Students must understand there is more to learn
Accomplished by skilled questioning --general to specific
Adapt tasks to students’ interests
Include novelty/variety elements
Allow opportunities for student decisions
Allow students to create finished products
Include simulation in teaching Incorporate game-like
features Provide interaction with peers
SHAPE YOURSELF TO BE A POSITIVE MOTIVATIONAL FORCE ?
1) Underlying every behaviour is a positive intention.
2) If one person can do it, anybody can do it with training / guidance.
3) Every problem has a solution.
4) People always make the best choice available to them.
5) Thoughts are foundations of behaviour.
6) There is no failure. Only feedback.
7) Be humorous; humorous people are believed to be more intillegent.
SHAPE YOURSELF TO BE A POSITIVE MOTIVATIONAL FORCE ?
8) The meaning of communication is the response you get.
9) You can always communicate.
10) Language shapes attitudes and leads to change of behaviour.
ADOPT
(1)Smile (2) Mention name (3) Interest
(4) Listening (5) Empathy
AVOID
Exclude from your vocabulary: saracasm, double meaning, negative words, foul language etc.
Anger, hatred, jealousy, envy.
DEVELOP
Intuitivity, Inclusivity, humanism.