Intrinsic Motivation

Describe the essential aspects of a self-directed, intrinsically motivated, active learner?

A self-directed, intrinsically motivated, active learner is a person that could be described as person which has important skills to plan his own time, seeing the difficulty as a challenge not as a problem.

The people part of this group are always ready to create their own plan, managing perfectly the time available to them, they are self-disciplined, that means through intrinsic management skills they set their own goal, planning the most perfect strategy to obtain it.

In their attitude there’s space just to discover and learn even more without being forced, just cause of the pleasure to find the solutions to the problems, setting it as the key of

Because intrinsic motivation results in high-quality learning and creativity, it is especially important to detail the factors and forces that engender versus undermine it (Ryan & Stiller, 1991).

They want to be part of the activities conducted in the class.

When they have to listen, prefer to focus to the person that is talking, obtaining more details about the topic matter of studies. An active learner gives important feedbacks to the classmates, engage always participate to courses or discussions forum, doesn’t need advices or motivational speech, basically as an intrinsically motivated learner is self-motivated, working hard without expecting any reward back but just because they really want to do so. Literally a self- learner is confident, doesn’t need to be driven to acquire an object, he use all the resources needed to achieve the goal previously set.

Identify two areas of personal strength and two areas of personal weakness in being a self-motivated and engaged student.

As a personal strength I would say:

Manage your time, desiring to learn different views and ways to achieve your

Plan at least 5 strategies for personal growth and explain how you will implement each one.

It was not so difficult for me, cause I had it already clear on my head:

Time-Management ------- I’m planning to switch from a full-time job contract to a part-time first of all, cause I noticed that studying full-time required a lot of resources, even though there’s not a physical effort during the studies, combine both and their own stress will be not easy.

Self-Discipline ------- Putting rules to myself, such as obligations or simply follow the schedules previously made without avoid anything on those.

Self-Evaluation ------- It’s always important to understand and actually realize if you are doing good or not. I want to test myself after a specified period that I didn’t decide yet, figuring out what I have learned so far and what I have to do to improve my studies.

Self-Confidence ------- Improve my confidence is the key for the success to my studies.

Plan the goal ------- What do I want to do in my life, what I want to improve and where I want to be after my graduation, where should I start.

4. How will you evaluate yourself on the success of your personal growth plan and how will you hold yourself