Motivated person can be compared with a laser: he seeks the desired goal, briefly delayed by obstacles.
Therefore, when learning it is highly desirable to acquire the right motivation.
This will save a lot of energy and help overcome any difficulties with less cost.
What is learning motivation?
Word "Motive" French origin.
In psychology, it is used to describe the sources of impulses that push a person to some kind of action.
At the same time, motives are attributed to personal needs perceived by the individual, forcing him to take certain actions.
If simplistic, then this "fuel", thanks to which a person continues learning, despite the difficulties encountered in the process.
The latter can include both a large amount of material and the duration of the training period required for the assimilation of information, as well as systematically arising temptations.
In other words, the motivation to learn is a psychophysical process that helps a person find the strength to remain focused on the cognitive process, even under unfavorable conditions.
Problems of learning motivation in psychology
The motivational sphere necessarily includes an awareness of the needs and goals defined by the motives. The most significant for the mental development of man is the intellectual need forcing search and learn new.
When incompetence of teachers or other mentors, expressed in ignorance of the material, inability to present it or unwillingness to interest the wards, suppressing the students' personality and forcing them to perform uniform tasks, the voiced need becomes less significant for the trainees.
A healthy child is always actively interested in the world.. Therefore, the lack of desire for knowledge indicates a problem that prevents the natural curiosity from showing up.
Braking factors can be:
- Mental stress because of a conflict with relatives, classmates, teachers, bullying.
Constantly waiting for clashes, ridicule, physical abuse reduces the ability to absorb new information and kills interest in it.
- Loss of interest in the subjectwhich was previously given a lot of attention and strength. For example, for some reason, the child has ceased to be interested in insects, although he has been studying thematic encyclopedias with ecstasy for several years in a row and sought to expand the collection of butterflies. It is imperative to find out if the unflattering statement of an important person for a child about entomology did not cause the problem. If this is not the case, then, most likely, the little man has outgrown his hobby and is looking for a niche that is more suitable for himself.
- Information overload. Sometimes this reason arises because of uncontrolled round-the-clock access to devices, and sometimes due to unjustified involvement in the learning process for everything and everyone.
- Difficulties in the learning process due to external factors. For example, due to accidental participation in a street conflict - the child witnessed a strong accident, he became less attentive in the classroom. During the passage of a complex topic, I did not learn the necessary material, and later the omission influenced the subsequent perception of information.
Motivation classification
There is an external and internal motivation of educational activity. When one or both of them are violated, the perception of educational material passes with difficulty or the new information does not interest the learner at all.
So:
- External motivation is associated with the desire to be successful in school, because then an important representative of society for a child (this can be both a close person and an outsider) will be proud, praise or even envy, strive to achieve the same state of affairs at school. This also includes striving for good academic performance because of the fear of being punished physically or by not receiving the usual rewards. Such external motivation is called negative.
- Internal motivation is fueled by the desire to be aware of the events of interest, to be able to operate with the information received, to be among specialists in a certain area and to communicate with them on the same level.
Educational cognitive motives of the second type are more efficient "fuel" to support consciousness in the tone necessary for the successful assimilation of information and obtain the necessary skills.
Motivational component
Proper motivation of students beneficial to each sidedirectly or indirectly participating in the educational process.
- The teacher is easier to work with an audience of students interested in knowledge.
They are not distracted from the process of trifles or do it only if necessary to get a small useful and deserved relaxation.
- Pupils overcome healthy "greed" for new knowledgetherefore, large volumes and complexity of tasks only undermine, and do not deprive of strength.
- Parents can be calm for children: an enthusiastic person is harder to invite to get rid of a lesson or lecture, to draw into a bad company, to substitute for an antisocial act. In addition, when a person is interested in learning, there is no need to carefully monitor him, to remind one hundred times a day of the need to perform household duties.
What gives healthy and reasonable motivation to students directly??
- simplifies concentration for a long time;
- interest in knowledge facilitates the assimilation of the new;
- returning to the learning process after a rest break is faster, without having to spend a lot of internal forces forcing yourself to perform difficult tasks;
- wakes up curiosity and makes you look at the tasks from different angles;
- helps to maintain the desired tone until the end of the learning process and does not allow to turn off the path in the event of difficulties;
- allows you to more confidently look to the future and choose the current profession.
Diagnostics
What should adults pay attention to if they want to increase the motivation of students - schoolchildren and students? There are many factors, which are worth focusing on:
- Study the attendance rate.
But keep in mind, a low percentage of admissions for a disrespectful reason among pupils or students may indicate both the interest of the audience in the subject and the rigidity of the teacher in relation to the truants.
- Active use during the learning process of modern equipment simplifies the dialogue between the teacher and students, promotes the active involvement of the latter in the process due to the presence of relevant and popular means of communication.
- Positive response to an offer to work out after hours (not on the eve of passing the session or exams), indicates a sincere interest in the subject. The same method allows to increase the involvement of the audience, if the presentation of the material will be informal and more in-depth, due to the absence of the need to follow a mandatory program.
Psychological advice: how to motivate to study?
To force to study or be guided as a pedagogical measure only by external negative motivation meaningless.
This leads to the development of neurosis, the disappearance of the opportunity to establish a dialogue between representatives of different worships and completely leads away from the main task.
Therefore, having found a decrease in academic performance, look for the reason and how to fix it.
Yourself
How to motivate yourself to learn? Tune in to an honest conversation with yourself and identify the true goal for which you started, plan, or continue learning. For many, especially if studying in this area is difficult, one prestige will not be enough.
If there is no chance of changing the institution, consider the option of transfer to another specialty.
- Clearly define for yourself what you will be doing in the future, after you spend time getting knowledge. Visualize your best wishes in order to better understand the benefits of which you are now donating your time.
- Find the best sources of information in order not to waste your time on “water”.
- Find a real or fictional rival, so that before itching in the nose you want to get revenge.
- Find interlocutors by interests. If there are no real ones, then remember, purely virtual ones can also infect with interesting ideas, morally support and give effective clues.
- Break a large amount of tasks into smaller objects.
After overcoming each one, reward yourself with rest and some sort of “medal”. Honestly keep promises to yourself.
- Do not give up physical activity. The alternation of mental and physical stress simplifies the solution of intellectual tasks.
Child
The child does not want to learn. How to motivate a student to study?
- Try to find out honest confession about barrier preventing learning. Harmful high school hooligan, unprofessional behavior of a teacher, lack of interest in certain subjects are different reasons for one phenomenon. And to deal with them, too, need differently. If necessary and possible, change the school.
- Help determine future plans. after school. Even if in the future they drastically change, it will be later. And now it is important for you to show the child that it is desirable to get the maximum of the useful from the learning process.
- Offer help but do not become a trouble-free magic wand.
- Be an example Demonstrating how you can muster the will into a fist and achieve your goals.
- Understand the origins of conflict situations in the house, leading to a heightened psychological atmosphere.
- Avoid the three "whips", beating on the vanity of the child and distancing you from him: do not compare his achievements with the victories of others, do not scold the child in the presence of third parties, do not hang degrading labels.
In general, scold less, praise more. But for real success.
Teenager
How to motivate a teenager (student) to study?
With the arrival of this heavy for all time, come to terms with the fact that, most likely, study will be perceived as being imposed from outside for the sole purpose of making the life of an adolescent unbearable.
Be as tactful as possible., even if the child deserves a decent pretty whipping. And to better manage to control yourself, honestly remember - out loud, not necessarily what you yourself were at that age.
- Rejoice in the fact that the teenager is still generally attending classes.
- Connect him with a couple of people who can learn and get the most out of their knowledge.
It is difficult to strive for good performance, looking at relatives and friends who have successfully graduated from universities, but who do not have a good job with a decent and pleasant salary.
- Make a personal feat in the professional field to infect a teenager with the desire to set lofty goals and achieve them.
- Support the child in moments of failure, find the strength to calmly deal with outspoken shoals.
- Do not make open surveillance, but keep your finger on the pulse.
- In any situation, be on the side of a teenager, because he must learn to re-trust you. Now he is at war with a stranger who knows nothing about himself, or about the world, or about who you can really trust, and from whom you have to run without looking back. And then it will be easier for you to establish a dialogue with your own unfamiliar, but beloved child.
Motivation to learn does not possess the property of being constantly kept in mind even those people who surprise others with their intellectual achievements.
But thanks to this, we can recognize in time that some tasks have lost relevance or information has ceased to come from a good source.
Therefore, the discovery of the loss of motivation is not always a problem. It is possible that hint about the need to urgently change something in life.
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