The Instrument (P. Factors)

• Do I like to go to college everyday?                                                                                                                                     yes                      -no
• Am I attentive in class?                                                                                                                       yes                      -no
• Do I complete all my assignments on time?                                                                                                                                 yes                     -no 
• Do I get all my doubts cleared from teachers?                                                                                    yes                      -no 
• Am I interested in knowing more on the subject being taught apart from the fixed syllabus?                 yes                      -no 
• Do I conduct an intensive research on the things taught, by using the Internet, to enhance my knowledge?                                                                                                                                       yes                      -no
• Do I feel satisfied and pleased after getting good marks in exams or praise from teachers for good performance?                                                                                                                                      yes                      -no
• Do I fully concentrate on my studies?                                                                                                 yes                      -no

As you can see in my type of instrument wich I chose are close question. Because it will tell me if the student is high or low motivated. Also the the questions which I chose are refering to differnts aspects; as teachers, subjects, himself and the tools which he has to learn. It will help us to know in what kind of things the student is more motivated.

                                                                

"The odd man out"

 

a) horse, cow, mouse, knife, fish

b) David, Michael, Andrew, Alison, Adrian

c) plate, bean soup, sandwich, apple

d) bicycle, bus, car, motorcyrcle, lorry

e) green, big, orange, brown , red

f) brother, father, sister, uncle, grandfather.

g) June, January, March, spring, May

h) Austin, Volvo, Morris, Jaguar.

i) Shakespiare, Milton, J.B Prietsley, Laurence Oliver

j) Paris, Ottawa, New York, London

Students, today we’re going to play a little game. It’s called “ The odd man out”

You have ten minutes to write down the word that doesn’t belong to this group of words proyected on the board.

You are going to work in groups of three and have to designate a sopkesman to give the answers. After that all of you are going to discuss why do you think that’s “the odd man out” word.

Remember, to give opinions you have to rise your hand and the rest of you keep quiet until your turn to talk comes.

Surveying

According to the survey, made to 6 of my classmates, I can figure out that most of them are agree with the majority of  survey's affirmations as the graphic shows above. I think that is because all of them will become teachers and they would try to obtain those characteristics and put in practice when they will teach.

I will focus in the affirmation 11 which it says: " A good teacher makes sure students have fun in lessons". I think that all the polled agree because nobody wants to teach in a boring way and I include myself.

Answering Questions. (Check this please)

1) What charateristics and behaviours do you associate with the image of a motivated learner?

 According to my point of view those people always try to participate very often, come to class on time,

They are very enthusiastic when they are working in class and most of the time they work very hard to do

a very good job. I think that all those behaviours are the main characteristics of a motivated learner.

                                                    

                                             

2) The urge to engage in learning activity for its own sake ( intrinsic motivation) is distinguishable from the urge to learn for the sake of some external reward (extrinsic motivation). Do you think there is any difference 

between children and adults in the degree of influence of these two kinds of motivation?

I think there is no difference between them. Because both of them are able to be motivated by something which is interesting to them. Obviously the kind of things which they are motivated are totally different.

For example with the extrinsic motivation, a child could be motivated because as a reward he will receive

a sweet or a present from their parents. An adult could be motivated by money motivation on his job, and the same happens with the intrinsic motivation. That's why I think there is no difference in the degree of motivation between a child and an adult.