Personality Factors (check)

Personality factors deal with how a student's personality can affect a student's learning process and overall performance. A student can be intellectually brilliant but if he is lacking confidence or motivation, he might not be able to live up to his full potential.

What I learned from this class, was that the different factors greatly affect a student's performance, such as motivation, self esteem, extrovertion and introvertion. Motivation is very important because it shows the student's desire to learn, if the student isn't motivated, it will be very difficult for him or her to learn. Self esteem has to do with a student's mental state in which he limits his capacities to learn, he can either put boundaries or expand his learning experience.

This is related to my future teaching experience because, as a teacher I have to figure out exactly the problem of a struggling child. Logically, we would blame his lack of intellectual ability when in reality there are factors based on motivation and self esteem that affect the child. I would try to diagnose the problem and then try to find a way to motivate or boost a student's confidence so he or she can get better grades and learn more efficiently.

Three concepts I would highlight would be:

1. Motivation - it's a very important factor because an unmotivated student won't be able to learn a new language, no matter how entertaining the class is. It's a factor that we as teachers have to try to increase.

2. Self esteem - another important concept that not only deals with the student, but also with the teacher, as I learned from first hand experience, a student has to believe in himself in order to succeed, if he is unable to do that, he will have an incredibly difficult time reaching his goals.

3. Introvertion and Extrovertion - this is also a very important concept because it's also very tricky, we can see an extroverted student and think he's intelligent and motivated while an introverted student can surprise us teachers with his skills. It's important to identify and judge correctly.