A little Hope Is A Big Motivation

What do you know?

According to Deborah Stipek, the education dean at Stanford University and an expert on motivation, points to the importance of what happens to youngsters in the very earliest grades—kindergarten and first grade—in affecting everything that comes later. Their experiences can “put them on a pathway that becomes increasingly difficult to change” and can have “serious and lifelong implications” for motivation.

While in a web of Motivating Pupils Tips for Probationer Teacher Scotland mentioned that One of the biggest challenges in teaching is motivating your pupils. Motivation has an impact on your lessons, discipline, In the classroom, stress levels and on pupil results. By understanding the causes of a lack of motivation you can start to read the signs at an early stage. Here are some ideas to turn you into a good motivator...

It was proven that motivation is an important element in education and it is just like a big motivation for someone.

My Journey Experience

Through my real experience as a classroom teacher and teaching experience, I can view how importance was a motivation to my pupils.  Even it is just a small hope that we give them (my pupils) such as a hope of a teacher for his/her pupils to become a good pupils, it seems to be something very important to them and at the same time it become some kind motivation.  It able to change their attitude little by little. 

I was very happy and grateful when I knew that just little hope able to motivate them. 

While as a teacher, we must realize that we must patience with the positive changes because it is absolutely will take time.  A part from that, we are part of our pupils motivator instead of their own parents at home. 

A motivation that given by teacher will give a great impact to his/her pupils.

Some research

Researchers go so far as to claim that “much of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions comes from boosting non-cognitive skills and fostering motivation.” These same researchers call these traits self-reinforcing, asserting that self-control and emotional security, for example, may bolster intellectual curiosity and promote more vigorous learning.

Paper 1: Motivation predicts children’s attainment over and above cognitive skills
Helen St Clair-Thompson, University of Hull  

The results show that both cognitive and motivational factors are important in determining learning. They support previous suggestions that motivation is one of the most important psychological concepts in education, and also suggest that there may be benefits of combining research into cognitive and motivational influences on children’s attainment. 

References:

Conference Proceeding:2011 BPS Annual Conference

Helen St Clair-Thompson (2011), University of Hull 

http://abstracts.bps.org.uk/index.cfm?&ResultsType=Abstracts&ResultSet_ID=6827&FormDisplayMode=view&frmShowSelected=true&localAction=details

How to motivate children

http://www.7diasderap.com/2012/07/how-to-motivate-children-2/

Motivating Pupils Tips for Probationer Teacher Scotland

http://www.probationerteacherscotland.org.uk/hints-and-tips/View/966.aspx