Mrs Church Observation

Motivation is a key element for teachers and students to help promote behavior, attitude and success in academics. While observing Mrs. Church’s second-grade classroom at Reese Elementary, which is a very tiny town, I noticed she intertwines motivation within her teaching ethics. She also uses motivation with the students to help them do well and keep the student engaged in the subject being taught. The second-grade class consists of twenty-seven students, both boys, and girls that range from ages seven to eight. In the classroom, the students are taught the concepts of writing, spelling, reading and math. Mrs. Church does hands-on learning, paper assignments, reading assignments, quizzes, and test to teach and evaluate subject matter in the classroom. Through person-centered, subject matter, and reinforcement Mrs. Church applies the
Which Mrs. Church does numerous amounts of hands-on learning with the second-grade students to get the students engaged in the learning process. She also uses lifelike examples with the hands-on learning. For example, Mrs. Church has the students use play money to learn how to count money. The teacher asks the students questions such as: if the students are going to the store to buy a candy bar for 89 cents, what is one way you can make 89 cents with the play money that you have? This example presents a real situation that the students can relate to, which keeps the students motivated to want to learn more. With the students learning the concept of counting money in this way, they are more apt to want to be motivated to take what they learn home with them and use what they learn next time the students go to the store. Ormrod (2014) claims that tasks in a class impacts motivation, which the topic of the task should be interesting to the students and relate to the students live which help keep the students engage, just as Mrs. Church does with her