Motivation
is important aspect in students’ learning processes. It can give impacts for
their achievement and their understanding of the lesson (Irvin, Meltzer & Dukes, 2012). Both of factors will
not be fulfilled, if the students do not motivate to learn. Teachers as second
parents in the classroom should be aware through the case. Why do students feel
unmotivated to learn? There are climate variables to answer that question.
Climate variable influences students’ motivation in classroom context. It is
divided into four aspects such as order and safety, challenging, success, and
task comprehension. Those variables are held by teachers’ role. Teachers should
be creative to create teaching and learning activities which cover those
climate variables.
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I
had an observation that relates with climate variables in the classroom context
when I did school experience program in one of senior high school in South
Jakarta. There was an English teacher who was my master teacher. He could apply
three climate variables in his classroom. First, he concerned about order and
safety in his teaching and learning program. He did not use tools that were
dangerous for his students. In addition, he always explains about the learning
objectives before he teaches. Classroom agreements were discussed by him with
his students, so students know about do and don’ts. Students also had autonomy
to give their opinions and suggestions. Second, students’ success also becomes
an important part in his teaching and learning activity. I have asked him about
students’ success and then he said that he would not change to the other topic
if the students have not understood yet about the previous topic. He wanted all
students understand and mastering the content, so learning process was not
useless. Third, task comprehension became his mainstay to check students
understanding about the content that has been delivered by him. He prepared the
task neatly before he entered the classroom and faced the students.
My
master teacher was a prepare person, but he forgets about challenging for the
students. I observed him and he did not give the students such kind of tasks
that made students explore by their own self. Exploring something whereas
become challenging for senior high school students. He provided paper and
pencil test to checking students’ comprehension in the end of the lesson. I
interviewed some students who were taught by him and they said that he always
give them it in every meeting. I think task comprehension aspect relates with
challenge aspect in climate variables. Teachers actually can give their
students various tasks that will challenge them as well.
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