The Influence of Needs on Motivation to Learn

The Influence of Needs on Motivation to Learn

By: Nurlelah

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            Actually this topic was very interesting. Hence I was interested to make a reflection about this topic. This topic explained that students’ motivation is influenced on needs. Maslow said that there are five stages or steps of needs. There are physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem and also self-actualization. I remember when I was in school I often was confused about my feeling. Sometimes I felt so enthusiastic in learning but also I changed my mind that learning was so boring and in my mind there was a sentence that I had to go from this class. When I reflected that situation, it related to students motivation. Motivation is a big deal when we want to do something because it can make someone move and keep on going in this life, especially in learning because not all students like and love learning. 

            When the students feel bored in learning process, I thought the teacher can reflect why the students feel bored. Maybe they do not like the class and the subject and why they do not like it. Feel bored, lazy, ignorance in the class are the effect of students motivation and needs. When they needs are not fulfill in learning, they will be bored, lazy and even ignore you as a teacher. When they ignore the teacher, it will be easy to ignore the lesson too.

            According to the article needs of students influence students’ motivation in learning, so the teachers have to care on it. For example when the student feel hungry they cannot receive the materials because they feel hungry and they brain cannot think well. When the first stage cannot fulfill, they also cannot move to another stage because the stages is relate each other. The students also have to feel safety because when they are save in the class, they will be comfort and they can survive in the class.

            Belongingness and love, I think those words have much strength that can make people do everything sometimes without thinking. We can imagine when our students have love and belonging in the class. I thought it is not difficult for them to stay and receive the materials sometimes some students feel that school or class is like their second home and their friend is like their family. When they feel like that their self-esteem will increase because they can support each other and it is not impossible for them to be brave in performance or self actualization.