* Reflecting on your school experiences (or work experiences), consider an inspirational teacher/mentor/boss. Describe TWO strategies this teacher/mentor/boss has used to motivate their students (or workers) (500 words)
School experiences can be very strange as each individual is trying to develop identity, friendships and growing towards maturation. I believe learning requires motivation and as a student or even as a teacher, we all need to develop different strategies to motivate learning. Student learning has a direct effect with the effort that a student puts into learning. Therefore this is a responsibility of a teacher to encourage and promote student efforts. In order to motivate students, teacher can use both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. Intrinsic motivators are based on engaging in a particular behaviour such as enjoyment rather than the desire to achieve a reward whereas extrinsic motivators rely on performing behaviour for the sake of earning a reward.
At school, my goal was to be recognized as one of the top students in my grade, the competition at my selective school was indeed very tough but I cherished this chance to further prove myself. Through many years of study, I simply found myself a very motivated student as I always had the opportunity of having a supportive learning environment, created by my teachers. My favourite subject at school was Physics as it gave me a solid foundation to understand and explore the rapid technological advancements. My Physics teacher, Mr Morphy was an old man who had many experiences in the field of teaching for so many years. He was always trying to promote a reflective classroom to ensure that every single student is fully engaged in the process of learning new knowledge. He organized instructions such as making dot points or preparing extra questions and asked us to reflect on learning material. In this