10th Journal entry

When people are motivated, they always want to learn more, they obviously care more about what is being taught and they pay attention carefully to the instructions that are being given by the professor


Motivation is a tool that will help us to take our students to the level that we want them to reach. 


If they are unmotivated, the classes are going to be bored, and they are not going to learn in the way that we want them to do so.


Teachers are responsible to motivate the students and make the class dynamic so they can learn easily


As the reading says, by applying the motivational techniques the students will show some differences from the students that do not show any interest from the class and their learning experience has not been that effective, these are:


• Good learners are able to identify the best strategy for a specific task; poor learners have difficulty choosing the best  strategy for a specific task


• Good learners are flexible in their approach and adopt a different strategy if the first one doesn't work; poor learners have a limited variety of strategies in their repertoires and stay with the first strategy they have chosen even when it doesn't work


• Good learners have confidence in their learning ability; poor learners lack confidence in their learning ability


• Good learners expect to succeed, fulfill their expectation, and become more motivated; poor learners: expect to do poorly, fulfill their expectation, and lose motivation