Are you motivated?

Do I have motivation? Why some people behave in the way they do?
This is one of the hardest questions we can ask ourselves and we must answer it at some point of our lives.

According to William Burden, motivation is a state of cognitve a emotional arosal, which leads to a conscious decision to act, and which gives raise to a period of sostained intellectual and physical effort in order to attain a previously set goal. Through this definition we can say that motivation is not only the desire for doing something, but also the fact of doing that something.

As we know, motivation can be influenced by a variety of factors whether internal or external, that´s why we have different types of motivation:

1. INTEGRATIVE MOTIVATION
   This motivation deals with groups of different types.
2. INSTRUMENTAL MOTIVATION
   This type of motivation deals with the usage of something, in our case LANGUAGE.
   The question here is: why do we use the language for?
3. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
   This motivation is the one that is in us. We all have it, but not all of us know how to use it.
4. EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
   This motivation is shared from others towrd us. I rather saying: "It´s the positivity that people give us."

Many people, in this case, many students need to be motivated, but how can teachers motivate students??
APPLYING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I had explained this, but this video just took my words away...
(Click on the blue words ;D)

Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

Reflective Teaching

Talking about REFLECTIVE TEACHING, I ´m sure that it is a good way for improving ourselves. We can manage our way of teaching through this topic. We cam be aware of what is helping us and what isn´t.
Last week I went to teach and I encountered that many students had their motivation very low. I didn´t know what to do, but I remember that we are their fountain of motivation (extrinsic motivation), so I decided not to let them keep on going in the same way. I tried to motivate them, belive me, IT WAS TERRIBLE hahahahahaha I cannot lie to you, their behavior affected mine!!!!!

As we have studied, we should try new things with our students, but we have to be very careful when developing certain activities, we cannot be helping them, but obstructin their learning. We should be sure what kind of activities they like the most.


I hope I improve my teaching bye the passing of the time because I do care about them as much as I can about my learning. I know what activities are useful and what activities are useless, how do I know that? Thanks to reflective teaching.