Motivation
What motivates your students?
Motivation needed to be continuous and sustain without stop once students developed expectation, or else it would be a "rebounce side effect". Motivation could come in forms of tangible and intangible rewards like praise, verbal, gesture, certificate or material of needs.
It could be rewarded in stages of achievement. Students have to earn it with effort and set goal that are achievable and realistic within their reach and capability.
Motivation is a great driving force behind successful.
I sometime describe teaching was best done in coaching. Learning through discovery and experimentation is better than by memorization of fact and drills to your memory.
Motivating the students is very important. Keeping them ingaged and assuring the student that the ability is there and incouraging good words, feedback, and letting them feel good in trying and how hard they are working towards the expectations to achieveing the goal that is to get during the strive to get to were they are going in life positively.
Every student is motivated by factors known to themselves - what motivated them to seek and education in the first place and what motivating factors keep them coming. As instructors in the classroom we need to present the student with ways to gain knowledge and access understanding in varied and interesting ways but the motivation comes from within them. We may need to remind them to revisit their motivating factors and help them see how in the long term they are changing not only their life but their "family tree".
I like to motivate my students by showing how their class work applies to their chosen field. I teach architectural drafting and when they are learning a new type of drawing I like to show them an example from the field. I also like to take them to job sites where they can look at a set of drawings and see how it will be built.
The student must feel that his or her learning experince is one of importants and they are succeeding in school. The student must have a feeling of pride in there learning.
For my students, motivation is connected to passion. If we are passionate about what we teach as instructors, our students will connect with the subject matter and begin to feel motivated to complete the class assignments. Instructors need to keep students engaged in the subject matter and leave the end of lecture will a reason for the students to come back the next day for more knowledge and information. If it is worthwhile for instructors to teach a subject they love, then the students will lead by example.
for the most part, they are motivated when i can transmit a positive outcome for the tasks and skills they are about to learn. I've noticed that sometimes is not really about learning something they think they are going to enjoy, but to surprise them by being excited and enthusiastic about the topics we cover everyday
Being able to get through a training program in a short amount of time and then being able to find work in a career based envoronment is what motivates my students. A lot of them have been out of work for quite a while now and the biggest motivating factor is too be able to sustain life by having a career.
Who does the critiques? Do peers participate or is it only faculty input?
I find that having class project critiques motivates the student to do better work and avoid embarrassment.
The students need to be made aware of their accomplishments since they have started college. I talk to many students when they are down and frustrated, and one of the things I do the most is make them reflect on how far they have come since they started. You can always find something to motivate the student as related to their academic progression. For some students it is their grades, others may be attendance, and some who have bad grades and poor attendance, well, tell them to reflect on the fact that they are still attending and trying. Again, you can find ways to motivate students, you just have to dig a little and put in the time.
My students are motivated when I share real world experience and am able to relate it to their lives.
Showing the students that they can achive what very few have even with the numbers against them. With hard work, deadication,and determination success will come.
Sharing my life experiences and while sharing them I share some of the stories that I grew from not just the success's
An open caring sincere mind set. Giving every day examples of success that they will be able to obtain through their specific course of study. My students in particular are motivated by new hands on techniques that I am teaching them which they are adding to there “ammo bag” of skills. Which interprets to them as their edge over other students as far as getting a job that pays them for their knowledge base and skills. More skills and better proficiency equal higher pay (more money)!!!
Teacher that make the student feel that the student is important and he/she will help them succeed throughout the course.
