By Amanda Graves
EDI 600: Psychological Foundation of Education
EDI 600: Psychological Foundation of Education
College of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 5, 2010
I feel more motivated and less overwhelmed as time goes by for this class. It was really nice hearing about how you try and motivate us to do things we feel like we cannot do, like speaking at the CESTLE conference. It feels good when someone believes in you and it is really motivating. I thought that the role model sharing was a great way to connect to our class on an intimate level as well as reinforcing the lesson on role models. I chose my dad as my live role model. Hearing everyone’s role model stories made me feel closer to the class.
I really admired “Young Soon’s” honesty and how she talked about motherhood and how it did not come naturally and wasn’t enjoyable to her. I was so impressed that she shared that because it goes against the traditional standard for women in America, but she didn’t let it stop her.
I also liked that before we shared our role models with each other we had a chance to mingle and complement each other. I told Wendy that she had a warm smile and Mincey that we always has good ideas. Mincey told me that I was smart and helped her when she didn’t understand. That exercise actually boosted my motivation. I will be sure to always be there to help Mincey now because she has that expectation of me and that makes me feel good.
My research project topic is confidence in learning, so it was very informative to learn about motivation and it's relation to self efficacy and self esteem. I am beginning to understand how influential teachers are on children, which is something that I am very happy about. I want to be a teacher to help children and be an advocate for them. It makes me happy to know that my encouragement will mean so much to them.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 5, 2010
I feel more motivated and less overwhelmed as time goes by for this class. It was really nice hearing about how you try and motivate us to do things we feel like we cannot do, like speaking at the CESTLE conference. It feels good when someone believes in you and it is really motivating. I thought that the role model sharing was a great way to connect to our class on an intimate level as well as reinforcing the lesson on role models. I chose my dad as my live role model. Hearing everyone’s role model stories made me feel closer to the class.
I really admired “Young Soon’s” honesty and how she talked about motherhood and how it did not come naturally and wasn’t enjoyable to her. I was so impressed that she shared that because it goes against the traditional standard for women in America, but she didn’t let it stop her.
I also liked that before we shared our role models with each other we had a chance to mingle and complement each other. I told Wendy that she had a warm smile and Mincey that we always has good ideas. Mincey told me that I was smart and helped her when she didn’t understand. That exercise actually boosted my motivation. I will be sure to always be there to help Mincey now because she has that expectation of me and that makes me feel good.
My research project topic is confidence in learning, so it was very informative to learn about motivation and it's relation to self efficacy and self esteem. I am beginning to understand how influential teachers are on children, which is something that I am very happy about. I want to be a teacher to help children and be an advocate for them. It makes me happy to know that my encouragement will mean so much to them.
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