The Last Meeting of MMSEL Course

The Last Meeting of MMSEL Course

The previous meeting of MMSEL course was the last meeting of this course. What we have learned about MMSEL course was about Case study and Belief. The meeting has handled by students’ presentation. There are two groups presentation who delivered about case study and belief in influence motivation.

There are so many cases in the education that existed especially in the classroom such as disruptive behavior. There are so many causes that probably happen such as disability, lack of control, lack of creativity in learning, uncomfortable atmosphere, etc. disruptive behavior give negative impact in teaching learning process. It may distract students’ and teacher’s focus on learning in hence it may cause frustrating for the teacher in managing the class and convey the material.

Disruptive behavior should avoid in the classroom. As a teacher she/he should provided interesting activity, build relax atmosphere, and so on, so that students only focus on the learning process. Teacher also should have well-management of classroom. It may help teacher cope some problems that probably happen during teaching learning process.

In this meeting we learned about how to solve some cases that probably happen in the classroom during teaching and learning process. Besides that we also learned about belief in motivation which belief is influence motivation in learning.

Belief is important to our life because it can increase our motivation to do everything especially in learning. Belief is a cognitive idea we accept as true without necessarily having definitive evidence to support it (Eggen, cp.10). There are three types of belief which is influence motivation that is belief about outcomes (expectation), intelligence, capability, value and causes of performance.

Expectation is a belief about a future outcome that might be happen. It is sometime influence by their past experience. Students who usually succeed in past will expect succeed in the future and the opposite students who did not succeed in the past it will difficult to them to belief that they will succeed in the future. According to Eggen (cp.10) stated that designing learning experience that are in the students’ zones of proximal development and provide the scaffolding necessary to ensure success are the way that can be use by teacher to increase students’ motivation to learn for student whose expectations for success are low.    

Belief about intelligence is belief that intelligence is essentially fixed and stable over time (Dweck, 1999; in Eggen, cp.10). Belief about intelligence helps students to think and belief that they will succeed if they work harder or use more strategies, to increase their ability.

Belief about capability or self-efficacy is tending to belief on their capability in accomplishing a specific task. There are some factors that influence on belief about capability such as past performance, modeling, verbal persuasion (such as teacher’s commenting), and anxiety.

Belief about value is individual’s belief on benefit, rewards, or advantage that may result from participating in a task or activity. There are three types of believe value that is attainment value, it refers to belief that they can do well on task. Second is utility value, it is belief on activity, topic or course will useful for their future goal. Third cost, it is about belief on a consideration of must give up to engage in the task by any reason.

Next is attribution which it is belief about causes of performance. They belief that lack of performance cause by any reason such as lack of ability, lack of effort, etc. attribution influence learner in four way that are emotional reactions to success and failure, expectations for future success, future effort, and achievement.

Belief has big influence motivation in learning. It according to learner’s belief if they belief that they will succeed then they will motivate to increase their effort and prepare more strategies to achieve their goal. On the other hand, if they belief that they will not success then they will think about failure without any effort to achieve their goal to be succeed.

Source:

Eggen. Theory of Motivation. Chapter 10. Retrieved from Students’ handbook of Motivation and Management of Students for Effective Learning (2011).