Motivate Yourself to Learn

 AdApt Others’ styles

 Develop Critical Thinking
Adapt Others’ Styles:
• After assessing strengths and weaknesses and discovering
learning styles, adapting to others’ styles is the third key to
success in motivating yourself at the university level.
• In universities, there is a diverse learning community and
everyone in this community has a different learning style.
• It is important to acknowledge and accept that all the
instructors have different ways of teaching and all the
students have different ways of learning.
Adapt Others’ Styles:
• Being the part of this learning community, it is important to be able to adapt to the
learning and teaching styles that differ from yours.

• It is not so difficult to adapt to the learning styles of your classmates as many of them are
your friends and you spend a lot of time collaboratively working with them throughout
the session.
• For example, if you plan to present in class orally as you are a good auditory learner by
yourself, supplement it with visual aids to accommodate the visual learners in your class.
On the other hand, you will also include visual aids in your learning too.
• However, it is quite challenging to adapt the teaching style of your instructor. As, different
instructors have different teaching styles.
Adapt Others’ Styles:
• An instructor’s teaching style determines, instructional methods, he or
she prefer to use.
• Two basic types of teaching styles are: Independent and Interactive
1. Independent
• The instructor whose teaching style is independent is usually formal with the
students and puts more focus on individual rather than groups.
• This instructor expects students to take the responsibility for learning, working
independently and seeking help when required.
• Lecture is the preferred teaching mode here.
• Instructor picks the students instead of asking for volunteers.
• Students feel more competitive in this instructor’s class.
Adapt Others’ Styles:
2. Interactive:
• On the other hand, the instructor whose style is interactive is usually informal
with the students and puts more focus on groups than individual students.
• Interactive instructor guides the students step by step and anticipates their
needs.
• Small group activities and large group discussions are the instructor’s
preferred teaching methods.
• Rather than nominating students, he or she asks for volunteers.
• Students feel cooperative in this instructor’s class.
Adapt Others’ Styles:

• Each of these styles discussed previously represents an

extreme of behavior.
• However, many instructor’s styles fall somewhere between
these extremes.
• Many teachers use mixed modes: a combination of teaching
methods such as lecturing, collaborative activities in small
groups and large group discussions.
Adapt Others’ Styles:
• You may enjoy in either of both the teaching styles but being a learner
do not let your personal feelings keep you from being successful in the
course.
• Instead, focus on what you can do to meet the instructor’s
requirements and make an extra effort to adapt to his or her teaching
style. It is your responsibility to adapt to the instructor’s style, not the
other way round.
• By making this effort, you may find that your relationship with your
instructor will improve dramatically. It will also help you for your
future careers.
Develop Critical Thinking:
• Developing critical thinking is the fourth key to success in
order to stay motivated in university education.
• Thinking critically is the means through which you make
sense and develop your understanding of the world around
you.
• Being a university learner, you require critical thinking in
making decisions, problem solving, logical reasoning, using
creativity and using appropriate learning strategies.
Develop Critical Thinking:

• Lets understand how critical thinking and learning strategies

work together to help you to complete the typical educational
tasks at university level.

• Reference: Figure: 2.4, Chapter:2, Page: 46, The Confident

Student.
Conclusion:
• A motive is a reason, purpose or incentive for any behavior.
Motivation is the impulse to act on your incentives and
desires.
• Being a university scholar, you need to develop your
intrinsic and extrinsic motives in order to stay on the track
of learning.
• Discover your sources of motivation by assessing your
strengths and weaknesses, discovering your learning styles,
adapting others’ styles and thinking critically.
Conclusion:

• In order to do so:
• Become a positive thinker.
• Take responsibility for motivating yourself.
• Accept the fact that success results from efforts.