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Setting a goal demonstrates an intention to achieve and
activates learning from one day to the next. It also directs the
student's activities toward the goal and offers an opportunity
to experience success.
3.
Both affiliation and approval are strong motivators.
People seek others with whom to compare their abilities,
opinions, and emotions. Affiliation can also result in direct
anxiety reduction by the social acceptance and the mere
presence of others. However, these motivators can also lead
to conformity, competition, and other behaviors that may
seem as negative.
4.
Many behaviors result from a combination of
motives.
It is recognized that no grand theory of motivation exists.
However, motivation is so necessary for learning that
strategies should be planned to organize a continuous and
interactive motivational dynamic for maximum effectiveness.
The general principles of motivation are interrelated. A single
teaching action can use many of them simultaneously.
Finally, it should be said that an enormous gap exists between
knowing that learning must be motivated and identifying the
specific motivational components of any particular act.
Instructors must focus on learning patterns of motivation for
an individual or group, with the realization that errors will be
common.
MOTIVATION FACTORS AND STRATEGIES, BY TIME PERIOD
BEGINNING, DURING, AND ENDING
1. BEGINNING: When learner enters and starts learning
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