Motivating Students in the Classroom

Motivating Students in the Classroom

When you set a goal to achieve, you need fuel to accomplish it. This fuel is your thrust to propel yourself towards your goal. It is called motivation.

Motivation can be defined in various ways. But generally speaking, motivation especially applied to education has a two part experience.

The first part considers the height of interest of an individual pertaining to the task they are trying to achieve. This is referred to as intrinsic type of individual. The second part considers the outside influences that can trigger a person's effort intensity which is also referred to as extrinsic type.

Since motivation plays a very important role in various ventures of life, you cannot easily tell which type produces the best results for any person. However, when motivation interacts with education, many would agree that the best results are those that are derived from intrinsic motivation.

Basically, it makes students to work happily if provided with some sort of recognition or award. This is known as the extrinsic motivation of high degree. However, if the best academic, mental, behavioral or social skills are to enhance, they should be the output of intrinsic motivation on individual basis.

Meaning to say, a student should have an innate enthusiasm to learn and succeed for their own satisfaction or pleasure and not for a certain reward or prize. This kind of intrinsic motivation needs a certain kind of support, has to be nurtures, and has to be encouraged by individuals that play important role to the students' lives like as parents, classroom volunteers, and teachers.

So how do you motivate a student?

To motivate a student, it should begin in the earliest years of introducing a formal process of education. It is when teaching and guidance have the strongest impact on the students. When a certain student interacts naturally with a teacher who accepts them on a personal, intelligent, and respectful way, he is bound to get higher achievements in life.

The pure encouraging atmosphere can instill within a student the sense of great optimism and motivation. This is the starting point of experiencing high rewards and achieving true success.