3516. On Positive Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom

We teachers – we have a great profession! – have to correct our students, for we want to educate them for life, don’t we? Nevertheless also we have to reckon their work and let them know about what they do well and correctly! That counts for much and we will be boosting their learning! 

I can assure you it’s so, it’s like that, I’ve seen it in my students and in other groups of people. Positive motivation, positive intrinsic motivation can multiply what they do correctly. 

Furthermore that is a way of making them repeat what they do well. And they, our students, will do better what they already do well. And we’ll cover their error and mistake gaps. 

It’s not flattering, silly adulating, it’s kind of recognizing and noticing what they do well. 

We will not be all the time flattering our students. However, when they are doing something right, we can just say some “Yes…” so as to pull our students toward doing things correctly, and toward letting them continue saying a right answer to our question in the class. 

And perhaps at the end of the class we can say a few encouraging words and even thank them for their cooperation to teaching. They’ll get out of the classroom with some nice pride – not silly selfish and arrogant pride. 

Try and get to know about this point yourself, you’ll see how well you’ll also feel yourself. 

So let’s be kind with our students. We’ll be reinforcing our students’ learning. 

All this fills their errors, mistakes and faults, and the gap those negative things produce. 

We’ll hit the jackpot: acting with benevolence love toward our students is very, very educative. Also you may have this kind of experience, is that right? Benevolence love is seeking what is good for the other person. Have a nice week.

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