UNIT 4.

2 Environmental Factors Affecting Motivation

Objectives: To be able to: identify the human factors that affect motivation specify the roles of teachers and parents in student learning detail the classroom climate conducive for learning

Module 21: Human Environmental Factors Affecting Motivation

Teachers Affective Trait Studies suggest that management & instructional processes are the key to learning but interview responses emphasize teachers affective characteristics more than pedagogical practice. Affective Characteristics of Effective Teachers: Caring Fairness and Respect Social Interactions with Students Enthusiasm and Motivation for Learning Attitude toward the Teaching Profession Reflective Practice

The Need to Belong

basic human need students who are accepted by teachers and classmates feel they belong to the class students who feel that they are part of the class look forward to attending & participating sense of belongingness enhances their learning and performance

Bullying

obstructs the creation of a learning community learning environment cannot be safe by all means, bullying should be eliminated in schools can be mild, it can be intense or deeply-seated and highly violent safety in schools is being raised all over the world

Parent as Part of the Learners Human Learning Environment

The learner spends at least six hours in school. Parents, therefore, are supposed to have more opportunity to be with their children than teachers.

Supportive Parents Behavior

Follow up status of their childrens performance Supervise their children in their homework /project Check their childrens notebooks Review their childrens corrected seat works and test papers Attend conferences for Parents, Teachers and Community Association

Supportive Parents Behavior (cont.)

Are willing to spend on childrens projects and involvement in school activities Participate actively in schoolcommunity projects Confer with childrens activities in school Are aware of their childrens teachers when necessary Meet the friends of their children Invite their childrens friends at home

Module 22: The Classroom Climate

The classroom climate is more of a product of the interaction between and among teacher and students than that of the physical condition of the classroom. The physical condition of the classroom may exert an influence on the social interaction among the personalities in class but it may not contribute as much as the classroom social interaction does.

Classroom Climate Conducive for Learning

Specific classroom rules and procedures are

clear
These classroom rules and procedure are discussed on the first days of class

Students are involved in the design of rules and

procedures Techniques to acknowledge and reinforce acceptable behavior and provide negative consequences are employed

Clear limits for unacceptable behavior are

Classroom Climate (cont.)

There is a healthy balance between

dominance and cooperation

Teacher is aware of the needs of different types of students Teacher is fully aware of the happenings in the class

Students responsibility for their own behavior

is enhanced

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