Assignment: MOTIVATION

Study Skills 101
2022-07-18T02:20:52Z

Due: Aug 1, 2022 by 11:59pm

To become a successful high school student, you need to begin on the right path to success. This path requires you to be organized, focused, and knowledgeable about how people learn and how you learn best. Becoming the best learner means being aware of your strengths and weaknesses and improving and minimizing your weaknesses for maximum success. The first step is to work on your attention and learning skills.

Find your strengths and weaknesses, click on the link below or access the Self-Assessment of Study Skill below. Answer the questions in this self-report questionnaire, and then upload or submit your assessment.

Self-Assessment of Study Skills for Attention and Learning

If you checked "I need some help" or "I need a lot of help" in any area, get extra help in this introduction, so pay extra attention.

MOTIVATION

Before applying any study strategy to become the best learner, you must be motivated to succeed. Motivation is the impetus, or reason, to push you to succeed in any task, especially in high school. There are two types of motivation: External or extrinsic and internal or intrinsic.

Click on The Link Below and Watch Video

SEL Video Lesson of The Week (Week 26) How to Increase Motivation/Principle for Everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be52PDG71TE&ab_channel=LessonsforSEL

External motivation, motivation from outside sources, comes from a "Threat" or "encouragement" of outside influences that compel your effort as a student. External motivators can be parents or other people and an employment situation that requires you to upgrade your skills or the promise of a better salary with some further schooling. These external motivators can help push you to do your best at school or attend college. External motivation can be positively received, such as support and encouragement from an instructor; external motivation can be negatively received, like the threat of losing a job. In either case, external motivation can be used to encourage you to be productive and expend the effort necessary to be a successful student. However, external motivation alone is not enough.

Internal motivation, motivation from within you to succeed, is necessary for any long-term success. Regardless of external reasons or motivators to attend college and achieve academic goals, you must want to succeed. High school requires self-discipline, effort, time, resilience, and focus. Maintaining your focus and sustaining your drive will be a struggle without an internal motivation to succeed.

Complete the following QUIZ on motivation. When you have completed the test, please post your responses to the following questions on the discussion board: "What do you believe motivation is?" "What activity do you enjoy doing?"

Access the QUIZ here

Access the discussion board here

Access the associated rubric here

References

Adapted from Christine Evans Carter. (2014). Mindscapes: critical reading skills and strategies. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. (Original work published 2011)

To become a successful high school student, you need to begin on the right path to success. This path requires you to be organized, focused, and knowledgeable about how people learn and how you learn best. Becoming the best learner means being aware of your strengths and weaknesses and improving and minimizing your weaknesses for maximum success. The first step is to work on your attention and learning skills.

Find your strengths and weaknesses, click on the link below or access the Self-Assessment of Study Skill below. Answer the questions in this self-report questionnaire, and then upload or submit your assessment.

Self-Assessment of Study Skills for Attention and Learning

If you checked "I need some help" or "I need a lot of help" in any area, get extra help in this introduction, so pay extra attention.

MOTIVATION

Before applying any study strategy to become the best learner, you must be motivated to succeed. Motivation is the impetus, or reason, to push you to succeed in any task, especially in high school. There are two types of motivation: External or extrinsic and internal or intrinsic.

Click on The Link Below and Watch Video

SEL Video Lesson of The Week (Week 26) How to Increase Motivation/Principle for Everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be52PDG71TE&ab_channel=LessonsforSEL

External motivation, motivation from outside sources, comes from a "Threat" or "encouragement" of outside influences that compel your effort as a student. External motivators can be parents or other people and an employment situation that requires you to upgrade your skills or the promise of a better salary with some further schooling. These external motivators can help push you to do your best at school or attend college. External motivation can be positively received, such as support and encouragement from an instructor; external motivation can be negatively received, like the threat of losing a job. In either case, external motivation can be used to encourage you to be productive and expend the effort necessary to be a successful student. However, external motivation alone is not enough.

Internal motivation, motivation from within you to succeed, is necessary for any long-term success. Regardless of external reasons or motivators to attend college and achieve academic goals, you must want to succeed. High school requires self-discipline, effort, time, resilience, and focus. Maintaining your focus and sustaining your drive will be a struggle without an internal motivation to succeed.

Complete the following QUIZ on motivation. When you have completed the test, please post your responses to the following questions on the discussion board: "What do you believe motivation is?" "What activity do you enjoy doing?"

Access the QUIZ here

Access the discussion board here

Access the associated rubric here

References

Adapted from Christine Evans Carter. (2014). Mindscapes: critical reading skills and strategies. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. (Original work published 2011)