How best to motivate learners ?

10 Basic Motivational strategies

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In this article we will be discussing very important aspects of learning. Being in the IT education industry more than 20 years and have seen different kind of students it is not easy to motivate the learners. Many factors influence the learning process. In this article we will be discussing on How to motivate the learners and what strategies needs to be applied in motivating the learners.

Here I will be sharing my experience which I learnt over many years. Overview Internal and External factors Motivational Needs For Students Motivational strategies

Develop a personal relationship with your students Create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom Cohesiveness Make the curriculum and teaching materials relevant to students Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learner by making the tasks more interesting Use goal-setting methods in your classroom Provide learners with regular experiences of success Remove or reduce anxiety-provoking environment Use rewards and grades in a motivating manner

Collection of Motivational Quotes for your students

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Overview

In one of the training workshops, a teacher educator asked the participants, Who would you still like to listen to and why? Many participants remembered their teacher who inspired them and made a difference in their lives and said they would still like to listen to them. Those teachers who are enthusiastic and passionate about teaching can make an everlasting influence on their students.

II. Internal and External factors

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A teacher can do a lot to motivate his/her learners. Motivation can work wonders in the classroom. However, there are components that are internal or external. There are internal factors such as The individuals drive of the listener. Perceived relevance or values of the learning activity. Feelings of competence in a chosen area. Personal definitions and judgments of success and failure. Attitude towards the learning situation. Confidence level, and so on.

Some of the external factors are The roles played by parent. The role played teachers and peers. The nature of classroom interaction. The learning environment and related attitudes.

These factors play an important role in every kind of learning situation. Motivation is generally regarded as an essential element in the teaching-learning process. Motivating an individual or a team is not a one time affair. Motivation is dynamic and continuous until specified result is achieved. Motivation is a process consisting of several distinct phases.

III. Motivational Needs For Students

Holding to a commitment is like holding a very hot rock, the chances that you will continue to hold it is near zero. But with time, it will get easier since the rock will become colder.

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1. Motivation needs to be generated as a child has to be motivated to pursue a task or choose a goal. 2. The generated motivation needs to be actively maintained and protected. A student may be motivated initially to do a task but he/ she may not be able to sustain the motivation until the completion of the task therefore, students need Coach or mentor or teachers support in maintaining their motivation. Finally, there is a the phase called motivational retro phase. This is concerned with the learners retrospective evaluation of how things went. Encouraging learners to reflect on past experiences will help them in activities they will be motivated to pursue in future.

IV.

Motivational strategies

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In the above hot rock example is a very nice way to describe motivation, but what on earth are you going to say to yourself in order to avoid dropping the rock at every single seconds. Remember, it is a very hot rock. How to sustain your motivation 24/7. That is one of the biggest secret of motivation. Believe me, you can easily motivate a person. Some people are doing this everyday to their employees or students in a class. There are studies that suggest that all student/learners are motivated to learn under the right conditions. However, not all teachers are skilled at creating the right conditions in their classroom. Many teachers have rewards and punishments as the only tools to work on their students motivation. There are several effective motivational strategies that will work in the classroom. According to a well-known Hungarian motivational theorist name zoltan Dornyei, there are a number of strategies to create a positive motivational climate in the classroom. In order the the student takes learning very seriously, sudents should never get the feeling that the teacher does not care about their progress in learning. If they feel so, even the most dedicated learners are likely to be affected and become demoralized. Therefore, offering concrete assistance, offering to meet students individually to explain things, correcting assignments, test papers and other student works promptly, etc., become important in showing your students that their learning matters to you. Below are the list of 9 strategies to motivate your students

1. Develop a personal relationship with your students:

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Students should feel at ease in the classroom and like their teacher. having a positive relationship with students on a personal, and not just on an academic level, is important for a motivating teacher.

2. Create a pleasant and supportive atmosphere in the classroom:

Accept mistakes as a natural part of learning, encourage risk taking among students, use humor, and involve students in personalizing the physical environment of the classroom will also determine the dynamics of the lesson. Hence, students sitting in groups around small tables or a horseshoe arrangement may be better options.

3. Cohesiveness:

Interaction, co-operation and the sharing of genuine personal information among learners are important in creating cohesive learner group. Smaller-group tasks where

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students mix with each other, co-curricular activities, outing, and whole-group projects help in building group cohesiveness.

4. Make the curriculum and teaching materials relevant to students:

Teachers who are obsessed in covering the curriculum and those who teach for the test are not found to be motivating the students. some technique to motivate learners are

Teacher should personalize the curriculum Relate the subjects to everyday experiences Map the background life of the students with examples and Provide additional materials where necessary.

5. Make learning stimulating and enjoyable for the learner by making the tasks more interesting:

Discuss that are challenging, have interesting and relevant content engage the learners fantasy and yield tangible, finished products are likely to inspire learners.

6. Use goal-setting methods in your classroom:

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Establishing group goals and class goals is crucial in learning. Teacher can show students how to break down tasks and assignments into small steps, how to set a timeline for reaching the goal and how to monitor/evaluate their own progress.

7. Provide learners with regular experiences of success:

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Building self-esteem and self-confidence is an important aspect of classroom motivation. creating multiple opportunities for students to experience success is also vital for academic achievement.

8. Remove or reduce anxiety-provoking environment:

Various instance of anxiety that students feel in a training facility have been known to have serious effect or impact in their learning performance.

Teachers must avoid competition, with successful and unsuccessful learners. Cooperation and collaboration with strong and week learners must be encouraged. Tests and assessments should be made less threatening. We must avoid labeling learners as slow weak or better than others. 9. Use rewards and grades in a motivating manner:

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Rewards and grades can do a great deal of damage. But

Teachers can reduce their de motivating impact as much as possible by using them sparingly. Grades should reflect learner effort and improvement and not just achievement levels. Continuous assessment and self and peer evaluation procedures should be encouraged.
Motivation is one of the key issues in education .teachers need to equip themselves with diverse strategies and techniques to generate and sustain motivation in the classroom.

10.Collection of Motivational Quotes for your students

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1. Patience Persistence and Perspiration make an unbeatable combination of success. 2. Always Listen First 3. Instinctively knowing When to run forward, When to ease back and When to let some one else take over ...... These are the marks of a great team and great team player 4. There are no beginning or end to your dreams or plans. Life is a Journey from the moment to moment. Live each moment to the fullest. Live each moment with the 3 E's Energy Enthusiasm, Empathy and With the 3 F's Faith, Family, Friends 5. Don't be afraid to change. You may loose something good, but you may gain something better. 6. For Everything you have missed , you have gained something else; And for everything you gain, you loose something else. It is about your outlook towards life. You either regret or rejoice. 7. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending 8. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. 9. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. 10. Lifes problems wouldnt be called hurdles if there wasnt a way to get over them. 11. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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12. Those who wish to sing, always find a song. 13. Where there is will there is a way. 14. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. A great leaders courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. 15. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. 16. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong wont. 17. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. 18. Lifes most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? 19. Success consists of going from failure to failure with out loss of enthusiasm. 20. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ? 21. The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. 22. Only those who will risk going too far can possibily find out how far one can go. 23. The Whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. 24. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 25. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. 26. The Pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimisit is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. 27. Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. 28. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days , or great days.= 29. If i am not for myself , who will be for me ? If I am not for others, what am I ? And if not now, When ? 30. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 31. Man cannot discover new Oceans, unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 32. When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

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33. Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can. 34. Fall Seven times , stand up eight. 35. One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something else. 36. The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their reams. 37. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 38. Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. 39. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 40. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. 41. Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he or She pleases. 42. Im a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it 43. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. 44. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. 45. It is all about Character Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they character. Watch your Character; they become your destiny. For building any presentations you should ensure you have 3 basic components Excellent Power Point Templates , Good Graphics and Creative Icons, Buttons, Images

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