achievement performance-goal orientation

Week 9 “What is Learning”
Learning I have found is about perceptions. How do I as a teacher perceive someone’s involvement or lack of involvement, and how do they as a student perceive what is to be learned and how to do it. How does the student perceive my concern for them, perceive the importance of the topic, and perceive its importance to them and life. Perception is based on our goals, whether concrete or implied, and our motivation is based on these goals. So motivation is also derived from perception. As a line from the movies “Sneakers” (yes, Robert Redford) says, “Things operate, not on reality, but the perception of reality”.
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