Climate Variables for Motivating Environment (3rd e-reflection)

I agree that environment can influence someone’s behavior and even someone’s feeling, motivation, perspectives, etc. After I learnt in MMSEL subject, I knew that there are some variables that can influence students’ motivation. Those variables are order and safety, challenging, success, and task comprehension.

Discussing about those variables, I have an experience with the effect of challenging aspect in fostering my motivation. At that time, I was in the second grader of junior high school. When I was in the first grader, I did not enjoy English lesson at all. My teacher at that time did not give any challenges for us. He told his personal experiences a lot rather than explaining the materials. As a consequence, I did not motivate to study English. 

After that, I got different feeling when I was in the second grader. My new teacher, Ms. L did better. She used to give us new challenges while teaching and learning process. I became more motivated, so I could attain higher achievement in English since that time until now. 

Logically, it really makes sense. If we set our goal in point 90, we will try our best to achieve that. Even though we can not get that point, if we have done our best we will get at least 70, 80, or even 85. It is really different if we just set our goal in point 80 since we just focus to reach that point as the maximum. As a conclusion, it is absolutely right that environment that created by teachers will influence students’ motivation.      

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