¶ … dealt explicitly with motivating students to learn, the concept of self-motivation presents an altogether different quandary to teachers. According to Jere Brophy, much research has been done into maintaining motivation in situations where there is a readily perceivable goal or outcome; he gives the example of reading a book. However, he maintains that the challenge of mastering a particular discipline or skill leaves us attempting to respond to a process without an object. Given the lack of this object, we are left without a finish line and its talismanic appeal.
My decision to enter teaching was one that was based on my desire for a specific lifestyle, my perceived aptitudes, and what one might call a natural proclivity for filling the role of an instructor that is in turn based on an interest in the subject matter and extroversion. However, the struggle with motivation is one that results mainly from fatigue and a sense that there is no forward motion. In students, such concerns are overcome, as there is a constant sense of forward motion. Brophy contends that motivation results in students when learning goals and activities are either already perceived as self-relevant or can become so perceived because they lie within the learners' motivational zones of proximal development. Whereas the first of these contentions doesn't apply to the teacher, the second is of interest to us because teachers may create goals for themselves in the same sense that goals are created for...
However, illustrating such sets of goals presents us with a different challenge entirely.
Both sets of goals rely on one's ability to find a motivational zone of proximal development. However, a teacher behaves optimally when he or she is able to repeat the task of presenting material or concepts to students in a way that they find appealing and able to digest. Whereas a teacher can create rewards, a teacher is rewarded in other ways; notably remuneration, tenure, and the positive feedback of others. It is not believed to be the students' responsibility to provide this feedback, but it is almost psychologically essential for them to do this in order for the teacher to continue to perform well.
As a teacher, I will attempt to overcome boredom with my work by constantly finding new ways to educate myself. By this, I hope to avoid such problems. However, I will also try to look for new sources of feedback, so that I don't only look to my students to judge the day-to-day validity of my teaching skills. Peer organizations have traditionally been an aspect of this; involvement in activities related to the school has also played their part. These activities might enhance my role as a teacher more than would traditional hobbies outside school; fellowship with other teachers could facilitate the implementation of theme-based education. Howard Gardener, a pioneer of this method of education, explains it by saying that several teachers co-ordinate a part of the…
3.4 Finally, I am interested in whether or not there is a trickle-down effect from leftist or rightist politics style at the provincial and federal levels. 1.3 Objectives 1.3.1 There are two major objectives for this research. The first is to compare the level of motivation among secondary school teachers under the Vancouver British Columbia School District in Canada by their socio-demographic and organizational factors. My hypothesis in advance of investigating this is
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