Friday, 28-09-2012 I attended the first meeting of MMSEL course. As its name –
Motivation and Management of Students for Effective Learning – I tried to
imagine how the classes would be. Thinking about motivation, I just directly
think about the theories. I was so excited to know the theories of motivation.
Yup! I was right!
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In the beginning of the
class I learnt about two kinds of motivation – intrinsic and extrinsic. The
master of this course – Mr. Imam Malik – made me shock about the definition of
motivation. He told that some experts believe that the real motivation is intrinsic
motivation, while the extrinsic motivation is not a part of motivation.
Based on that statement, it means that if someone has an intrinsic motivation in doing or learning something, s/he is really love it because of his/her heart. In contrast, if someone has an extrinsic motivation in doing or learning something, it means s/he doesn’t start it from his/her heart, instead of extraneous variable or others reasons.
Based on that statement, it means that if someone has an intrinsic motivation in doing or learning something, s/he is really love it because of his/her heart. In contrast, if someone has an extrinsic motivation in doing or learning something, it means s/he doesn’t start it from his/her heart, instead of extraneous variable or others reasons.
Started at that time, I
just realized and flashback to myself. Many of my activities were done by
extrinsic motivation. For example, in the first semester my target for GPA was
4.00, but I failed to reach it. I was jealous to my friends who succeeded to
get 4.00. So, in the second semester I worked hard in every subject so that I
could achieve that number of GPA.
I think, my motivation to get 4.00 in second semester was because of my jealousy to my friends, it was not because I wanted to learn the subjects. So, I conclude that I just had an extrinsic motivation. Another story, since I was a child, I grew with the extrinsic motivation. My parents always said that if I could be the first rank on my class, I would be given a present, it was kind of extrinsic motivation, wasn’t it?
I think, my motivation to get 4.00 in second semester was because of my jealousy to my friends, it was not because I wanted to learn the subjects. So, I conclude that I just had an extrinsic motivation. Another story, since I was a child, I grew with the extrinsic motivation. My parents always said that if I could be the first rank on my class, I would be given a present, it was kind of extrinsic motivation, wasn’t it?
However, not all what I
have done were because of extrinsic motivation. It’s about mathematics. I
couldn’t imagine how I love mathematics. When I was a child, I often learn
mathematics further than my friends. I mean, I often explore some material that
had not given by my teacher. Even, when I was in Junior High School, I explored
some material on the Senior High School. I just felt that mathematics is very
hard, but challenging. I did it because I really wanna be a mathematician, so I
keep exploring some chapters further than what my friends learn about in the
class. I’m really sure that it’s the part when the intrinsic motivation plays
its role in my life.
