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Motivation: Physiological Needs

Learning depends on many factors including the learner's motivation, perception of relevance, and preferred learning style, which are influenced by their previous experiences and the learning environment. A teacher plays an important role in setting the proper context for learning and keeping students engaged by showing enthusiasm for the subject and interest in students' experiences. Both intrinsic motivation from within the student as well as extrinsic motivators like assessments are important for learning, but external distractions or negative attitudes can demotivate learners and prevent self-actualization.

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Motivation: Physiological Needs

Learning depends on many factors including the learner's motivation, perception of relevance, and preferred learning style, which are influenced by their previous experiences and the learning environment. A teacher plays an important role in setting the proper context for learning and keeping students engaged by showing enthusiasm for the subject and interest in students' experiences. Both intrinsic motivation from within the student as well as extrinsic motivators like assessments are important for learning, but external distractions or negative attitudes can demotivate learners and prevent self-actualization.

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A student might find a particular question threatening and intimidating in one context yet

stimulating and challenging in a different context. What makes one learning context unpleasant
and another pleasant?
Many factors influence learning

Learning depends on several factors, but a crucial step is the engagement of the learner. This is
affected by their motivation and perception of relevance. These, in turn, can be affected by
learners' previous experiences and preferred learning styles and by the context and environment
in which the learning is taking place. In adult learning theories, teaching is as much about setting
the context or climate for learning as it is about imparting knowledge or sharing expertise.

Motivation
Motivation can be intrinsic (from the student) and extrinsic (from external factors). Assessments are usually
a strong extrinsic motivator for learners. Individual learners' intrinsic motivation can be affected by
previous experiences, by their desire to achieve, and the relevance of the learning to their future.

A teacher's role in motivation should not be underestimated. Enthusiasm for the subject, interest in the
students' experiences, and clear direction (among other things) all help to keep students' attention and
improve assimilation of information and understanding.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs for motivating learning. Adapted from Maslow A H. Motivation and Personality, New York:
Harper and Row, 1954

Even with good intrinsic motivation, however, external factors can demotivate and disillusion. Distractions,
unhelpful attitudes of teachers, and physical discomfort will prompt learners to disengage. Maslow
described a model to illustrate the building blocks of motivation. Each layer needs to be in place before the
pinnacle of self actualisation is reached.

Physiological needs
Although the need to be fed, watered, and comfortable seems trite, many teachers will have experienced, for
example, the difficulties of running sessions in cold or overheated rooms, in long sessions without
refreshments, in

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