Motivational Factors For Children In School

Running Head: Motivational Factors For Children In School
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What factors contribute to children’s motivation to learn in school?

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Motivational Factors For Children In School
What factors contribute to children’s motivation to learn in school?
Every parent’s worry is to their children. They invest in their academic life as its
beginning of a foundation of a child future. Therefore, children should be motivated to work hard
in school. Most of the time, these children does not understand the importance of working hard
while in school and if not pushed hard and motivated, they might end up regretting when its
already too late. This essay will focus on the factors that influence or motivate children to work
hard while in school to ensure they have a better future. In order to achieve this, motivation is
required from parents, teachers and friends too.
For children to be motivated to learn in school there are some factors to be considered.
These factors encourage a child to put more effort in his or her studies. First and foremost,
teachers should be the first role model while teaching their students. A teacher should put all his
or her effort in teaching their subject to give children motivation to work hard to become like
them or better in future.
Another factor that can increase a student motivation in school is if their tutors put effort
in knowing and understanding the children. A teacher should be able to understand the child’s
weakness and strength. This will inspire a child to try even the impossible since he or she knows
that there is someone who have faith in them.

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Goals set should be realistic to the children. This helps them set their own targets too
which can even be higher as they are motivated by their tutors. Assignments set for children
should be realistic but challenging to give students real life experience solutions in case a
problem arises in future.
Tutors should also use examples freely while teaching as most of these children want to
understand why they have to learn a particular subject as they fear it might not be applicable in
life. The tutor should therefore explain why their certain field is useful in future to their student
so as to motivate them in learning it.
Testing and grading should be appropriate. Examinations should be allowed to show
what a student have understood in school and therefore tutors should not grade students
according to how best they scored in previous tests but on that certain examinations. This allows
a student to master what he or she is being taught as every student has an opportunity to achieve
as high grades as possible.
Parents should also take their responsibility and motivate their children to work hard in
school. This can be seen from parents helping their children in homework and checking their
performance regularly so that a child can work hard in school to avoid embarrassment. Parents
should also visit schools regularly and check how their children are fairing as this would be a
great motivational factor in children academic life.