The document discusses the role of intrinsic motivation in student learning, highlighting how personal needs, goals, beliefs, interests, and emotions influence motivation. It emphasizes the importance of teachers forming relationships with students to understand their individual motivations and challenges. Overall, the text illustrates how intrinsic motivation can enhance learning, increase effort, and lead to better academic performance.

1. Discussion question
Motivation is the all-ensuing mechanism that determines how
much and how well a student will learn. Treating it as strictly
an internal mechanism, explain how learners; needs, goals,
beliefs, interests, and emotions can influence their motivation to
learn.
RESPOND TO THESE STUDENTS POSTS
Tashi post
Motivation is something that looks different in everyone. When
we look at what motivates one person and assume we can teach
based on that, we will not be successful in reaching all students.
Looking at motivation strictly from an intrinsic lens, meaning a
student’s needs, goals, beliefs, interests and emotions, teachers
need many resources. I think that one of the biggest tools that
teachers need is relationships. Understanding where a student’s
motivation is coming from, or not coming from, can lead to
engagement. For example, if a student’s basic needs are not
being met, they will not be motivated to learn their math facts
because they have greater needs. This is where the relationship
and understanding of where students are at is so important for a
teacher. They have the ability to create goals with these
students. However, on the flip side, a student that knows they
want to go to college may be motivated based on their goals for
themselves and will engage because they want to do well and
achieve a goal in the future.

2. Motivation can create opportunity as well as hinder progress. It
is so important in education. A student’s belief in themselves
can create these opportunities or hinder their progress as well.
Understanding how a teacher can use motivation through an
intrinsic lens can help all students in their class.
Jasmine post
Motivation is defined as the processes that initiate, direct, and
sustain behavior. Motivated students put out more effort, persist
longer, learn more, and score higher on tests (Lazowski &
Hulleman, 2016). Intrinsic motivation is the natural human
tendency to seek out and conquer challenges as we pursue
personal interests and exercise our capabilities. When we are
intrinsically motivated, we do not need incentives or
punishments, because the activity itself is satisfying and
rewarding (Anderman & Anderman, 2014; Deci & Ryan, 2002;
Reiss, 2004). When I think of intrinsic motivation I don't
associate it with younger children as much as I would with older
children. I can relate to intrinsic motivation myself because just
learning something new motivates me to learn more. Also,
seeing those A's and B's keeps me wanting to learn more. I feel
the more I learn the more I'll be able to teach someone in the
future. That is motivation enough for me to keep going. The
students I currently work with get excited when they are able to
identify numbers and letters and this motivates them to keep
learning. You can see the excitement on their faces when they
answer something correctly.