Tutorial Three

1.     By providing examples explain how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs relates to a student's motivation to study well?

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory. This theory is very much important in student motivation. It talks about human needs. The most important needs must be met before we can strive toward the next level. The needs are psychological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs, esteem and self-actualization.

The first psychological needs are safety and security and love and belonging needs are the in the deficit needs. These needs are the needs that every child and human has to build and fulfilled before growth can occur.

Psychological needs include the most basic needs that a child is needed to have when they go to school. It includes food, water, shelter, clothes, sleep, rest, and physical comfort. If this psychological needs are not met or fulfilled what will happen to the students? This is the most important need to a child's ability to learn. If this need is not fulfilled the child cannot concentrate in class. Whether the student is very good or intelligent he/she cannot concentrate in the class.

For an example a student in a class was very hungry. He came from home with the hungry stomach. The student has no power to do any activity in class. He/she is not concentrating in the class because his or her mind is not in the class. He or she was not able to do any activity because of the hungry. The thing he or she will do is thinking about to have a food. The student is not in the position to think about something else except the food.

Child needs the protection from their parents, teachers and peers. For an example if a child is being bullied or being shouted by her parent the child will not have the confidence to participate in classroom activity and learning. In this case the teacher’s responsibility is to make the classroom environmentally safe from everything like physically, mentally and emotionally.

If a student is not getting love and belonging they will feel lonely. They will be very unfriendly with other students. The student will not have the freedom to do his or her things. If they are alone, rejected and not getting love they will be rootless and don't like to be with others. So this will affect the student motivation to learn.

If the student deficit need is effectively met then the student will be ready and try to learn. By forming a community of learners by showing the self-actualizing activities like following the creative interests and wishes and appreciating the different gifts that each child bring and show. Self-actualization will become the final instructional aim for all the students. So the student become equally as lifelong learners.

2. Explain why morality is a concern for students at school. Provide examples. 

Morality is beliefs about right and wrong or good and bad behavior. It is a very big concern for students at school. Students start their school at the age of six or younger than six. After that student finish their o level and A level study. How many years, months, weeks, days and hours student spent their whole life in school? Student spent their half of life in school. So it is very important to the students have a good moral values. If the school is not teaching the student is not teaching the child about morality will the student have any knowledge or understanding of right or wrong? 

For an example a child is not have the thinking or the knowledge of obeying the traffic rule what will happen the child comes after finishing the school. How the child will know and have the understanding of the good or bad things if the school has not taught the child. So he/she will not have the beliefs of right or wrong.

Schools need to teach the child about every important morality that every student needs to have in their life time.

Bullying is a very common thing in every school. For an example in a class there is a girl who wears a very big glass because of her eye problem. Then there was a boy who always teases students. One day that boy calls that girl by naming magnifying glass. All other students was laughing and the girl was very sad and felt shy. but the teacher only told that boy to stop that and go to his place. In this situation the teacher has to tell and teach the boy about bullying is not a good thing to do and advice the child not to repeat that. if the child don’t teach the student will bully not only for that girl for others also.so it is very important to have a good moral values and beliefs in school.