Reflection of Kathy’s Class

Based on Kathy’s Class article about students’ motivation, actually in term of motivation it has two kinds there are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, but in my opinion according to this article only focused on extrinsic motivation although only one aspect from intrinsic motivation. For extrinsic, after we have been read, we can see from Susan’s side (student of Brewster). Susan said: 
"Actually I have always like history and knowing about the past,... and I am pretty good at it. My dad helps me. He says he wants to keep up with the world", Susan laughs. 

          So, Susan has extrinsic motivation based on her father, because her father always helps her. Then, she also has intrinsic motivation because she is good at in history. While other student like Jim pretends to hate history. Based on his thoughts, I can see that actually Jim has his own motivation to learn history, but he pretends to hate history. In other side, Brewster (his teacher) succeed made him interested in history, using her interesting way to grabbing students’ attention. So, actually Jim's motivation belongs to extrinsic motivation, based on the way of his teacher.

            While, the teacher in this case has a big influence to her students like Jim, Harvey, and Jenny. Brewster tries to grab students’ attention through her interesting way. She gives compliment on students’ work and appreciation, so that is why students have good self-esteem on their self. Even the way she admonishes her student, she did appropriately without make Jenny ashamed or down. She said quietly to Jenny directly not in the forum. The teacher gives self-directed learning to the students, so the students can plan or choose what are thy strategies to learning to them.