Reflection: Self-Motivation

Reflection: Self-Motivation

By Rindy Agustiansyah

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Motivation is an abstract object that people cannot see and touch it. However, it can be felt and identified by some phenomenon. There are perhaps some questions about that phenomenon of motivation. It can be identified by some action that is taken by people. For example, a student names Susan who likes to learn History very much because she likes about how the teacher conducts and delivers the lesson. In addition, her dad always tells some world histories which is loved and liked by her very much. History becomes an interesting issue for Susan. It encourages her to know and learn more about English. That is one of examples about motivation phenomenon which is shown by Susan who motivates to do something by external motivation (the teacher and her dad). This condition can be found in theories of motivation article in MMSEL Moodle (2012) about Khaty’s class. There is an explanation that intrinsic motivation is influenced by extrinsic motivation. For instance, I have an experience about Physic subject. It was a night mare for me when I was in Junior High School. I did not understand anything about Physic. An old teacher with his glasses explained it without any interesting ways. He just faced the white board and wrote some “awkward formula”. He did not care about his students would understand or not, so there were none of his students who get A score. However, that paradigm changed when I was in Senior High School because the teacher was 180^o different. He helped me to understand about physic subject. He told his students about the benefits if learn physic. It made me though “Ya, I have to learn Physic because it is important to be learned. I will face situations that relate with physic.” He also gave task that related with our daily life. It made me learn about physic easily. Moreover, he allowed his students to come to his house on Sunday for asking about physic. He did not ask payment for that. I can see now that is a social aspect in there. Sociocultural theorist (2002) postulated about, “All in this together,” implies the characteristics of a classroom culture that supports learning. I know it from MMSEL (Motivation and Management of Students for Effective Learning) subject that I have been learned since a week ago.

Resources:

Theories of Motivation. (n.d). Retrieved from http://sse-elearning.net/course/view.php?id=82 on September, 27^th 2012

Valenzuela, S. J. (2002). Sociocultural Theory. Retrieved from http://www.unm.edu/~devalenz/handouts/sociocult.html on September, 27^th 2012