Motivation Blog

Why am I here in the UVU Education Program? I am here to learn how to teach and what I need to do to become a teacher. I owned my own hardwood flooring company for some years, the economy took a turn for the worst, and I have always wanted to teach so here I am.
What motivates me? I would like to say I am easily motivated and things just come that way naturally for me. I have some things in life that will catch my attention and I will focus on them until I finish or fall ver exhausted. I work really hard for those things I do enjoy. I would say most of the motivation I receive would be an Extrinsic Motivation. I really want to have Intrinsic Motivation in my studies though, I do enjoy psychology and I am anxious to learn how children can be affected psychologically in their studies at school.
How do I succeed? I am an Autonomous learner. I do what needs to be done and I make it happen. I have an internal locus present, which allows me to learn what I need to. I am very apprehensive when it comes to learning though, some might say it is all due to Attribution theory or just plain luck, but I do work hard to succeed. I fail because I do not manage time well, and I am not very organized, I am not good at prioritizing my time nor my studies. I guess I have not mastered Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, sometimes other needs must be met before my own.
Mastery verses Performance goals in the education program? I believe in Mastery Goals for the course. I wish to use the things I learn in class and in the Education Program to help me succeed as a teacher throughout my life. I will use the content that is going to be used in class to make me a better, more understanding teacher. I want to change my study habits I have attributed to my schooling in the past to learn, retain, and reuse information in my own classroom.
How do I need to change my mindset to be a great teacher? I have made teaching a dispositional interest in my life. I want to do it for the rest of my life so I need to use the Goal Theory in my studies. I need set goals for how I want to study and what I want to get done for a night. After setting goals I need to try to meet them every time. I have found an interest and I am excited, however, it is a facilitating anxiety, and I need to keep stresses and flow from turning it to a debilitating anxiety. I will do fine, just no more procrastination! I do have innate psychological needs in life, I would have never thought I would have had problems the first week of the semester, but I have noticed I feel different than any other semester. I am really stressed about time management and how I'm going to get the work done. I know it is a heavy load, but look I am learning already and I am looking forward to learning.