Instructor Motivation Matters
This course was of interest to me because adult motivation and youth motivation vary somewhat. I am currently working on my dissertation focusing on several societal factors which may or may not influence teacher intrinsic motivation. The responses to my survey indicate that teacher motivation is impacted by many factors and that when teacher motivation is impacted, student learning is also impacted.
I agree with this strongly. I am an instructor in a creative career field. I find that my own passion and my intrinsic motivation is contagious to the students intrinsic motivation to be creative and preform at higher standards. This is a very interesting subject .. motivating learning but also motivating creativity.
I've spent some 50 years in a variety of class/course settings, subject areas, and ages, and I concur completely with my colleague and friend, Mahailey Albain, that instructional motivation leads directly to student motivation and success.
Mahailey, sounds like a very interesting study and one I would be interested in reading once it is complete. At an anecdotal level and from my 20 years of experience working with over 500 faculty members and over 5000 students I would agree that instructor motivation as a direct and strong relationship to student motivation.
James Jackson
