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      Motivation: to what extent?
      Submitted by jazzyiris on 17 January, 2012 - 19:03

      It felt really good yesterday when I saw my less good students (whom I have been tempted to flunk, but eventually gave them another chance-which I normally avoid at the end of the first term). They all had shiny, happy faces and eyes full of optimism (at least this was my impression).

      I wondered if their attitude would be the same if I had kept to my usual habit of assessing them as insufficient. I wondered if these marks they are given mean so much to them as to influence their further involvement in a subject. For as much as I want to keep to my evaluation standards I now realise how important motivation is. Even at the expenses of my evaluation standars.

      And yet I wonder: to what extent?

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      oztrkozge's picture
      oztrkozge
      Good subject
      Submitted on 18 January, 2012 - 13:39

      Hi there,

      Thanks for choosing the motivation as your title. Good point.

      There are lots of things and ways that we can motivate our students as teachers. The marks they are given play an important role, too. For example; during my teaching career,I realised that when they get high marks, the students usually say: "I got it". However, when they get low marks, they say the teacher gave it to me :))

      Do you think that it is tru? Have you ever experienced something like this? :)

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      jazzyiris
      Hi thanks for the reply
      Submitted on 18 January, 2012 - 20:21

      Hi

      thanks for the reply. LOL that was funny. No, so far I haven't heard my students saying so (but who knows- they might as well have thought that way:-))

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      oztrkozge
      Human nature
      Submitted on 19 January, 2012 - 10:40

      LOL :) Maybe this is something in human nature, we all enjoy our success but blame others for the bad things :)) Who knows? maybe every student thinks that way once in their school time :)) 

      Cheers,