Motivation (Douglas Brown)

Motivation (Douglas Brown)

Motivation (intrinsic or extrinsic) is a complicated topic, because there are many theories of how to motivate students, however these theories, in practice, are not always effective. We can say that there are “many questions to few answers”.
We as teachers have the daily challenge of finding ways to stimulate our students, in other words to motivate them. After all, there is not learning without motivation.
To make this possible, it is necessary dialogue between teachers and students. This way we will know what to do to captivate them. Thus we need to include in our planning what the students want to learn, so we are going to motivate them even more. Otherwise they lost their motivation over time.
As teachers, it is very important we know the theories that we are using in our classes (there is no right or wrong). We have an obligation to know what we are doing (not just following the intuition).
Knowing these elements we will be contributing to the improvement of education!