The Importance Of Motivation In Education

This is an issue I witness every day because I am a tutor of students grades K-12. Most of my students are adolescent boys whom their parents come to me in hope of helping them succeed academically. Report Cards from these young boys indicate failing grades and bad conduct. Many parents wonder why after having me as a tutor their children begin to show improvements in their grades and behavior. Parents ask, “How did you get my boy to be smart”? or “How did you get my child to behave”? My response is all children are intelligent what is different is the way I interact with them. I try to always create an environment in which students feel safe to express themselves and make mistakes without being judged. I begin tutoring session communicating with the student. I ask, how they are feeling and what can I do to help. I learned in this film that these are simple questions that make a huge difference in a young boy or adolescent’s life. A student once told me that no one had ever ask him how he is feeling or took the time to care. The film points that if a student is misbehaving the school solves the problem by expelling them. They never stop to think what is behind the bad behavior or why the child is acting out. As a result, boys are at greater risk of dropping out of school and less likely to go to college. This has inspired me as a tutor to take the responsibility of redefining and teaching my boys what being a man really is. As a society we have to accept the challenge of guiding and supporting our boys to become men who show and express their emotions, men who are caring of others because in the end as the film mentions these are not feminine behavior patterns they are human

The United States of America is known for being a country filled with people of many different ethnic backgrounds. Likewise, the student population in schools is just as diverse as it continues to grow. Lynch (2015) notes that schools are expected to teach their students “how to synthesize cultural differences into their knowledge base” as this will help “facilitate students’ personal and professional success in a diverse world” (para. 8). Educators must be able to provide for the diverse needs of students and are expected to equip students with skills that can lead to healthy development as it can affect higher levels of student achievement and students have more opportunities of success in their future. Providing students with tools and skills requires an awareness and acceptance of their ethnic identity. Once students have developed self-acceptance about their ethnic identity, they can begin to feel empowered and motivated to do well. Through cultural empowerment, students of color can develop intrinsic motivation and achieve academic success.

The majority of ASCC’s course offerings are Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. However, the college offers only a Bachelor in Education Degree, BED program, in 2006, under the Teacher Education Department. The BED program provides theoretical and practical experiences for pre-service and in-service elementary education majors. One of the major challenges of the program since its inception is the low enrollment from the general student population. A slow but significant climb in enrollment was noticeable when a new platform was required for the program in 2008 – the introduction of MOODLE in addition to the face-to-face format of the teacher education program.

American education system has thrived in teaching on extrinsic motivators: such as, the ability to work on a timely basis and the completion of work or tasks; when the best type of education is achieved through intrinsic motivation, having children learn because they want to learn the subject, instilling pride in the work that is accomplished.

This reading is very helpful because it highlights the different stages adolescents go through in their preteen years. It also highlights how the gender of a person can really affect how they develop mentally. When children reach the age of “ten to eleven they begin to challenge their assumptions about the world,” their mental development grows alongside their physical development. Girls (or female bodied people) develop physically at a much faster rate than boys (or male bodied people), these sudden changes can become a struggle for everyone in the classroom. For the female bodied people the sudden onset of menstruation changes their lives, the presence of puberty makes female bodied persons emotional sensitivity and volatility increase. The classroom becomes separated naturally due to the noticeable natural changes occurring in female bodied and the lack of changes occurring in male bodied people. Male bodied people observe the changes of female bodied people and stress about when their own change will take place. At the ripe age of 11 girls begin to form exclusive cliques, this can lead to drama as the exclusion can seem cruel in some ways, it is vital for teachers to have a good balance between watching and interfering with these cliques. This is important because the adolescents can grow from the conflicts that emerge within these cliques but if the situation is being handled in a negative manner it is time for the teacher to

As life goes on, I am starting to learn more and more about what motivates me step forward and can be successful in education; I recognize that when I plan or want to do something, I have a motivation for that specific thing. In other words, when I do something, I have a reason why I should do that thing. According to the book “Drive” by Daniel H. Pink, it makes me thought-provoking about motivation 2.0 and motivation 3.0. So the question comes in my mind is what is the difference between motivation 2.0 and motivation 3.0, and which motivational system is more effective either for education. Motivation 2.0, what we know as extrinsic motivation assumes that human beings are best motivated by

Motivation affects many different areas for students in education. Areas include how the student feels about school, teacher relationships, testing performance, and time and effort spent on academics. Without motivation, academic engagement is almost impossible to achieve. However, research has shown that highly motivated students perform better academically, have a better self-esteem, and tend to complete high school. As a student progresses through school, motivation tends to decline. According to a 2004 analysis by the National Research Council, approximately 40 percent of high school students report being disengaged from learning. In addition, a similar survey showed that 70 percent of students who dropped out of school stated that being unmotivated was a key factor (Kober and Usher, 2012).

The anti-boy school climate has further been developed by the significant growth of feminism. In this new masculine ideal, “working for academic achievement…is labeled as feminine and thereby stigmatized. Girls, however, typically view school work as acceptable and sometimes even encouraged.” Females tend to direct “‘considerable effort and attention’” to school while boys in contrast tend to take “‘pride in their lack of academic effort as an aspect of their masculine identity.’” The popular masculine ideal today, has been skewed to view education as futile and entirely pointless. Research has shown that ‘“the main demand on boys…is to appear to do little or no [educational] work’ whereas for girls ‘it seems as if working hard at school is not only accepted, but is, in fact, wholly desirable.’” Through the rise of feminism, “girls are taught that they can do anything, while boys’ choices are restricted to activities that are considered appropriately masculine.” School today is seen as a “girl thing.” As a result, the societal view of

History teaches us that motivation has been a key ingredient proven effective in the accomplishment of tasks, or used to get things done. This paper will discuss the classic and contemporary background/history of motivation. In addition, covered will be the theoretical background and theories, the implications motivation has for leaders, and the motivational tactics used in the working environment that stimulate results.

Motivation in the classroom plays an important part. There are many reasons why motivation is important and there are many different things that effect a student’s motivation. A student outside or home life may affect the student’s ability to perform in the classroom or the students social life while at school. When a teacher is trying to get his or her class motivated about learning there are many things that her or she needs to take in consideration.

Learning is so important to every people in the world. Learning is very important because when, we learn we get new knowledge in order we can know about everything that we do not know. There are adage that said learn until the grave, that is means if we can learn whenever from born to die. The formal educations where place we can learn are preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, and university.

In recent years, female achievement in the education system has grown very strong, but in its place, male achievement in education has plummeted. Due to male stereotypes, lack of male role models in school and at home along with the adoption of more feminized school places and practices, males are no longer being challenged to take risks and freely engage in critical thinking skills to be able to succeed as much as females in the current educational system. Since the recent uprising of the feminist movement, the fact that females are faring better than their male counterparts,

Motivation can be defined as something that drives us to behave in a certain way. It can be argued that much of the behaviours we inhibit today are a direct product of our ancestors from the past environment of evolutionary datedness (EEA era). These human motives came about due to our ancestors needing such traits and motives to consolidate their survival and thus, adapting in order to do so. In order to understand how the evolutionary perspective has had an impact on human motives, it is important to discuss the key traits that have been a product of adaptation and why this happened millions of years ago.

To conclude girls in school achieve higher than boys in school, this is because to some of the factors in school and out of school which may affect many boys with their studies and their behaviour. Overall girls seem to be more able to

What is motivation? What influences it? The term motivation can be defined in different ways. Motivation can simply defined as “ a need that, if high, is evident in a strong desire to achieve, to excel, to reach a high level of excellence” (Lefrancois 430). To become motivated, one must have a positive attitude to a variety of learning skills. Some factors that influence motivation include our peers, friends, parents, and environmental settings. Division four being high school division, attention is focused towards learning and what methods can be used. Students at this stage are more eager and develop a sense of what he or she wants to do and accomplish in upcoming adulthood. With a division comes a group of intelligent theorists. All