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FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING Hand-out 1 II. Instruction and Activities: 1. Read the hand-outs about the 14 Learner-Centered Psychological Principal and see how you relate to these. Choose one (1) principle and discuss how you are related/affected by it. Make a positive reaction by telling your experiences based on the principle. The fourteen (14) psychological principles pertain to all learners and the learning process. The teacher and the learner are the center of instruction. They are best understood as an organized set of principles; no principle should be viewed in isolation. What and how much is learned is influenced by the learner’s motivation. Motivation to learn, in turn, is influenced by the individual’s emotional states, beliefs, interests and goals, and habits of thinking. Students’ belief about themselves as learners and the nature of learning have a marked influence on motivation. Positive emotions generally enhance motivation and facilitate learning and performance. Mid anxiety can also enhance learning and performance by focusing the learner’s attention on a particular tasks. This will set that this principle gives an important role towards teacher and student relationship. Sometimes we almost give up especially in times of difficulties, pressure on the tasks but still we push through even if we feel more panic and being afraid of failure but there are some people that gives as always the motivation to never ever give up. There’s always a saying that after a rain there’s always a rainbow. We should think the positive side of it that all things happen with a purpose whatever it may serve and it always taught us a lesson in every experience we have and learned from it.

2. “Motivation is important in accomplishing something you desire”. Kindly narrate the kind of motivation which influenced you in pursuing your career/ profession. Why do you like to be a teacher? Discuss how you would like to pursue your career despite of your present situation. Motivation is the desire to exert effort to enhance career goals. It is a multidimensional construct that combines elements of needs, interests, and personality characteristics that reflect the stimulus, direction, and persistence of career-related behaviors. Understanding motivation gives us many valuable insights into human nature. It explains why we set goals, strive for achievement and power,

why we have desires for psychological intimacy and biological sex, why we experience emotions like fear, anger, and compassion. It influenced me towards my career that motivation is valuable because it helps us understand where we comes from, why it changes, what increases and decreases it, what aspects of it can and cannot be changed, and helps us answer the some questions that are more beneficial than others. Motivation reflects something unique about that each one of us and allows us to gain valued outcomes like improved performance, enhanced well-being, personal growth, or a sense of purpose. Motivation is a pathway to change our way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. I want to be a teacher simply because I want to have an edge, a career and a profession that influences the lives of other people. Becoming a teacher lets you impart life lessons that they will never forget and puts you in a position to influence their decisions, behaviors, strengths, weaknesses and imaginations. Essentially, becoming a teacher lets you take part in shaping the next generation. I am currently working while studying to pursue my career despite the situation I am in. Yes it’s difficult still I’m up for the challenge, I have already a family with 2 babies that gives me the motivation to pursue and finished what I have started. All things happen for a reason and we should embraced and just go with the flow of life with positive vibes in order to overcome all the challenges we may encounter in pursuing our career....