How can a teacher encourage her students to remain intrinsically motivated for learning?

How can a teacher encourage her students to remain intrinsically motivated for learning? Correct Answer By supporting them in setting individual mastery goals for themselves.

Motivation encourages a learner to work in a specific direction to achieve a particular goal. It helps in channelizing the focus of the student to achieve the target.

• There are many methods of motivating the learners which can either be categorized into extrinsic or intrinsic types of motivation.
• Extrinsic motivation refers to the performance of an activity in order to attain an outcome and comes from outside of the individual. 
• Intrinsic motivation refers to motivation that is driven by an interest in the task itself and exists within the individual. 

Key Points

• A teacher can encourage her students to remain intrinsically motivated for learning by supporting them in setting individual mastery goals for themselves and as per their interests.
• Setting individual goals give primacy to children's understanding, experiences, and needs and will provide ample opportunities to the children to foster their own strategy of learning.
• Intrinsic motivation is the drive to achieve something in life that satisfies one’s needs and when children work at their own pace to achieve their individual goals they develop their fullest potential.

Hence, a teacher can encourage her students to remain intrinsically motivated for learning by supporting them in setting individual mastery goals for themselves and as per their interests.

Hint

• Giving rewards is related to extrinsic motivation.
• Inducing anxiety and fear and giving competitive tests could lead to low self-esteem and anxiety in low achievers.