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Blog 3 For my final blog video I interviewed a fellow teacher at my school. She works in a third grade classroom teaching math. Our school is very diverse so she has many bilingual students in her classroom. She has seen how being bilingual has affected and benefited her students. One thing she has noticed about the students who are bilingual is that the majority of them are intrinsically motivated with their school work. Ortega (2013) discusses how intrinsic motivation is the most ideal kind of motivation for students. Ortega (2013) says that when students are intrinsically motivated they are taking captive their own learning (pg. 176). It is also has been shown that students who are intrinsically motivated show higher achievement rates. I believe students could be motivated by their families as well. Many of my ELL students especially from the middle east and Asia have told me how their families only accept A’s. I believe this would be a big reason why these kids would be motivated...