Motivation is what ‘moves’ us. It is the reason we do anything at all. A lack of motivation for teachers has long been one of the most frustrating hurdles to student learning. Social scientists and psychologists have studied the problem of motivation from a variety of different ways and angles, and education researchers have adapted many of these ideas into the school context. The main aim of motivation is to stimulate and to facilitate learning activity. Learning is an active process that needs to be motivated and guided toward desirable ends. Motivation of learning activities helps the pupil to concentrate on what he is doing, and thereby to gain satisfaction.
Why is motivation important in learning?
1. It fosters creativity and critical thinking: Students who are intrinsically motivated treat learning like play. As a result, they are more likely to flip the learning on its head to see it from a new angle. Motivated students are not more intelligent than unmotivated students.
2. It cultivates resilience and self-assurance: When a student is truly engrossed in a task, they have less cognitive and emotional energy to focus on social image.
