201421559 Seo Hyeon Ji

Good teacher can lead high-level academic achievement of students;

what are the characteristics of great lecturer?
Who was the best teacher in your school days? Did he or she encourage
your study? Now, think about totally different experience. Have you ever had bad
relationship with teachers? What about your grade at that time; especially the subject
of his or hers? Did you avoid studying the very field? If you have these kinds of
experiences, whether they were positive or negative, it is natural. Young students are
so sensitive that they easily can be affected by their teachers. Let us move on to
concept called motivation theory, which is a part of educational psychology.
Motivation is divided into two subordinate concepts: extrinsic and intrinsic
motivation. Extrinsic motivation is fueled by the anticipation of a reward from outside
and beyond the self. Typical extrinsic rewards are money, prizes, grades, and even
certain types of positive feedback. (Brown, 172) Intrinsic motivation is defined as
the doing of an activity for its inherent satisfactions rather than for some separable
consequence. When intrinsically motivated a person is moved to act for the fun or
challenge entailed rather than because of external prods, pressure, or rewards.
(Richard & Edward, 56) Intrinsic motivations are usually thought better of two
motivations, as it must bring positive results especially in the long term. Lecturer
should notice these motivation types and take a proper action to promote each
motivation and lead their students to accomplish a high level of academic
achievement.
As we have checked above, teachers can encourage students to concentrate

on their studies. Since the positive motivation for the students futures is intrinsic
one, teachers ultimately endeavor at developing intrinsic motivation of children. A
good lecturer who leads his or her students to have great intrinsic motivation has
some characteristics: personal teaching efficacy, passion, caring, and positive
expectation. (Eggen & Kauchak, 502) These four aspects must be main causes of
high standard academic achievements of students.
If teachers want to prepare optimum courses for learners, the first step which
they have to check is, getting confidence in their own abilities. There is a term,
personal teaching efficacy. Personal teaching efficacy is defined as a judgment of
his or her capabilities to bring about desired outcomes of student engagement and
learning, even among those students who may be difficult of unmotivated. (Robin, 4)
Teachers who have enough personal teaching efficacy have confidence that they
must teach well regardless the preliminary knowledge and abilities of their students.
This concept is an extended form of self-efficacy, which is a term to describe the
belief of individual that he or she must complete certain task. (Eggen & Kauchak,
459) It is manifested in responsibilities of teaching method, whether it ends with
succeed or not. Teachers with high personal teaching efficacy spend their time as
much as possible for good lecture, and have patience to low achievers. (Eggen &
Kauchak, 503)
The maximized form of the very concept, personal teaching efficacy, is called
collective efficacy. It is a belief that the teaching staff of school can give positive
effects on students as a whole. If school provides superior quality of education with
this competent teaching staff, students must show great fulfill in their learning. To
improve collective efficacy, teachers should do their best to change the thoughts of

their colleagues. They always have to maintain positive attitude toward cynical and
pessimistic co-workers, reminding them how important the role of teacher is for
inducing the motivation of children. Constant exertions must make great school
which offers high-level lectures for their students.
Have you ever been absorbed in your teachers small talk in the beginning of
the class? What about happy facial expressions of teacher during the whole class?
Ardent lecturers can set a nice model for learners. For instance, teacher may tell his
or her favorite book, and read it during the reading class. Science teacher can show
science scrapbook to class and ask them to make it together. History class lecturer
might check the relationship between the past events and present day. Students who
have been trained from these keen grown-ups usually attain superior
accomplishment to students who have not.
Teachers should always be careful in their speech and behavior, since they
must be role models to young children. Students easily receive a great impulse from
their surrounding circumstances. If school teacher sets a positive viewpoint model
toward diligence, telling the continuous efforts must develop the brain, the values of
children might take after that. To educate students to be great adults with a mature
awareness, the first step that teachers should check is, if they are good examples of
desirable social member or not.
Young children are vulnerable to society which forces them to play enough
roles. Recognizing the very feature of them, school takes a role as breeding facilities
as well as educational institution. Teachers should have their eyes on these natural
desires of students. According to the Maslows hierarchy of needs, school teacher
can satisfy two parts of whole needs. Maslow divided the desire of people into 5

stages: physiological needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem,
self-actualization. (Poston, 347-351) Teacher who cares enough his or her students
can help them to satisfy needs of safety and security; love and belongings. In this
context, caring is not just looking students in silence, but inject some sympathy and
effort to protect children and help their cognitive development. Students who realize
these strong supports from teachers are more pro-social, therefore the positive
results of motivation such as responsibilities, efforts in studies, and self command
are reported with high-level of accomplishments. (Eggen & Kauchak, 504) It is clear
that students want teacher to care and respect themselves as a learner, and fellow
creatures: human beings.
It is important to aware the necessity of caring. Some studies suggest the
specific methods of the teaching strategy. Lecturers may memorize the names of
students as soon as possible, and call every learner as their names. The relationship
between teacher and whole class is totally different from the one between teacher
and individual student. Comfortable oral language and non-verbal language are also
significant. School teacher should use the words which have undertone of
community: us, our. Spending a lot of time is also a good method to make a good
relationship. Performing all these teaching methods, teacher should not forget the
foremost idea: respecting students as a person. (Eggen & Kauchak, 505)
The expectation from teacher is also have a great effect on the academic
achievements of students. To promote their motivation, teachers should lead them to
feel competence need. It is a subordinate concept of self-determination, which
stands for a desire to control and act as someones own circumstances. (Eggen &
Kauchak, 448) Everyone wants to be looked smart to others. This social desire

arises from how much they want to demonstrate their competent to function as a
great society member. People usually think that a man of ability can survive and
even success in their career; however, the others who are less talented must be
stuck in slump. (Morgan & Fuchs, 165-183) The very need explains the reason of
curious and challenging activities motivate intrinsic way.
Every single word that teachers talk about their expectations toward
students, it must give effects to students. There is a concept which shows the
influence of teachers expectation: self-fulfilling prophecy. The terms refer to the
phenomenon those performances of individual are caused by the beliefs and positive
evidences of his or her own ability from others. Conveyance of positive expectations
alludes to success of students. If lecturers completed certain task, their self-efficacy
improves. Moreover, the affirmative relationship between motivation and
achievement is formed because of it. Of course, the inverse cases can be happened.
Negative anticipations might lead children doing their work with less effort, which can
be a cause of ultimate execution error.
Even a mere child can catch the undertone of teachers talk. They may guess
the teachers attitude toward them with the tone of speech, and take actions with the
positive or negative expectations which were contained in lecturers utterances. With
these reasons, it is crucial to maintain positive attitude and expectation for students;
even their outcomes are not great enough.
Young students are sensitive to external stimulus, especially the responses
from their teachers. As the matured adult who lead a life nearby young students,
school teacher should act and speak carful, not to harm frail children. Teachers have
to notice how huge they can influence to learner with 4 aspects: personal teaching

efficacy, passion, caring, and positive expectation. With these magical elements that
help us to check if we are doing great attitude or not, we can perform the best
response to motivate our children to have great intrinsic desire to study; it must help
them to get a wonderful academic experience someday.

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