Module 5 Chapter 12, 14, 15 (Educational Psychology)
Chapter twelve covers, Motivation Learning and Teaching. Motivation is a very important factor in the learning process. I believe that a motivating learning environment supports the education process. It is the key factor in getting students involved in the learning process and in keeping them engaged at their level of academic performance. Most educators believe that motivating is a difficult. We learned motivational ideas that are useful in the classroom. Woolfolk’s definition regarding motivation is an internal condition that arouses, directs and maintains behaviour (462). According to psychologists, motivation is an attribute that instigate movements, energy, direction, the reason for our behaviour and “what” and “why” we do something. Motivation is a persuasive feeling that always provides positivism to students to accomplish a task or activity to the end and succeed in it no matter how hard and tough it is (464). It can also give a feeling of ways to go down and obtain anxi...