Which of these strategies do you already employ? Which do you plan to employ this Trimester? Which would you like to know more about?

Which of the values (intrinsic, extrinsic, attainment) is likely to keep you motivated to engage?

It will be common throughout your life that you will have competing and contradictory answers to this question related to your intrinsic, extrinsic and attainment values at the time that will result in a combination of motivations to both engage and disengage.

Out of Self-Efficacy or Perceived Difficulty, which of these beliefs is likely to keep you motivated to engage?

1. Can you get through this course? Why or why not?

2. Should you get through this course? Why or why not?

3. What is it costing you to get through this course?

This page is for 2.3 Maintaining Motivation

Without any reading or research, write down answers to the following questions in the text box below:

1. What is motivation?

2. What has motivated you to study during your previous education?

3. What has demotivated you from studying during your previous education

4. What will motivate you to achieve your goals this trimester (and beyond)?

In what ways do you already engage tactics or behaviours to motivate yourself?

Priorities Exercise

1. List as many of your priorities as you can think of.

(Hint: have you considered your own health and well-being in your list of priorities?)

For each long-term goal, set up to three sub-goals for the semester that will help you to achieve your long-term goal.

1. enroll in swimming lessons to learn how to swim,

2. swim 100m unaided,

3. swim for 20 minutes without taking a rest.

Hint: Do you have at least one academic goal? Do you have any non-academic goals? Do you have social goals? Do you have goals for your health and wellbeing?

Do any of the Examples Of Success help you to expand your own idea of what it will take for this first trimester to be successful? If so, add to your original answer in the box below, which you can copy and paste into the relevant section of the template for your development plan (Assessment 2).

This page is for Module 2.2 Setting Up For Success.

This semester, what will “success” look like for you?

This might be a tricky question to answer at the moment, but write your response without being too concerned with it being perfect or your final answer. Write as much, or as little, as you like.