A Science Teachers’ Perspective Related to the Students’ Motivation for Learning

One of the main objectives of the European FP7 PROFILES Project was to promote Science teaching through specific methods (as IBSE), with the view to improve the students’ scientific literacy. In such a perspective, Science teachers - Physics, Chemistry, Biology -, as reflective practitioners, should be concerned by students’ motivation for learning, which allows them to be actively involved in the act of learning, to capitalize their own resources, to act, to investigate, to experiment, to seek, to find, to develop scientific hypotheses and resolute strategies, to develop their argumentation capacity and decision-making competence.  The paper try to investigate the teachers’ perception concerning the students’ motivation for learning, which can be optimized in classrooms if the teachers: (a) create motivational challenges for students according to their capabilities; (b) guide students to value Science learning as useful for their life, lifelong learning and for their career choice; (c) use related media texts and video-clips; (d) use (extract, draw) interesting and suitable examples of the history of Science; (e) determine relevant topics, encouraging students’ self-motivation.