How to motivate a child to study harder in school?

@mayrah (1144)
United States
December 29, 2010 1:24am CST
When I visited my friend one time, I remember how disciplined they were in studying lessons at home. At night viewing television is not allowed and all her sibling are surrounded sitting in a floor while doing assignments and reviewing lessons. She told me their mom push them to have a study habit everyday. I agree it was an effective way of teaching a child to be serious in studying because after she finished her accountancy course she's the only one who passed the CPA board exam among her classmates. When I get married and have my own child I would adapt that strategy to raised an intelligent child. How about you? How do you motivate a child to study harder?
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• Indonesia
29 Dec 10
There are some Children Learn How to Increase Motivation in learning activities at school, such as disclosed PM Sardiman (2005:92-94), namely: 1. Grade Figures in this case as a symbol of the value of learning activities. Many students just to reach the number / value of the good. So who pursued only replay value or the value of a good report cards. The figures are good for the students is a powerful motivator. To remember the teacher, that the achievement of these figures has not been the result of a genuine and meaningful learning. The hope the numbers are associated with the affection is not just a cognitive course. 2. Gift Gifts can be a powerful motivation, where students interested in a particular field that will be awarded prizes. Not so if the prize is given for a job that is not interesting by students. 3. Competition Competition, whether individuals or groups, can be a means to increase motivation to learn. Because sometimes if there is competition, students will become more vibrant in achieving the best results. 4. Ego-involvement Growing awareness of the students to feel the importance of the task and accept it as a challenge to work hard is as a form of motivation is quite important. Form of hard work students can be involved in cognition is by looking for ways to increase motivation. 5. Giving Deuteronomy The students will study hard if you know there will be repetition. But do not repeat too often done because it will be boring and will become routine. 6. Knowing Results Knowing the learning outcomes can be used as motivational tools. By knowing the results of their study, students will be motivated to study harder. Moreover, if the study had progressed, students will definitely try to defend or even motivated to improve it. 7. Praise If there are students who successfully complete the task properly, it needs to be given praise. Compliments are a form of positive reinforcement and provide good motivation for students. Gift must also be at the right time, so it will foster an atmosphere of fun and learning and simultaneously enhance motivation will raise self-esteem. 8. Punishment Punishment is a form of negative reinforcement, but if administered properly and wisely, can be a motivational tool. Therefore, teachers must understand the principles of the sentence. The same thing also disclosed by Fathurrohman and Sutikno (2007: 20) student motivation can be grown in several ways: a) Explain the objectives to students. At the beginning of the teaching and learning of a teacher should first explain about the instructional objectives to be achieved to the students. The more obvious purpose, the greater the motivation in learning. b) Gifts. Prizes will spur their spirit to be able to learn even harder. Give prizes to students who excel. In addition, students who have not accomplished will be motivated to catch the students who excel. c) competition / competition. Teachers tried to hold competition among students to improve academic achievement, trying to improve performance results have been achieved previously. d) Praise. Students who perform it's natural to be given awards or honors. Compliments are given constructive. With honors students were more motivated to get better performance. e) Penalties. Punishment will be given to students who make mistakes during the learning process. This punishment is given with the hope that the students are willing to change yourself and try to stimulate their learning motivation. Form of punishment is a punishment given to students who are educational such as looking for articles, writing and so forth. f) Â Generating encouragement to students to learn. The strategy is to give maximum attention to the learners. In addition, teachers can also make students interested in the material presented in an interesting way of using the method and easy to understand students. g) Establish good study habits. A good study habits can be formed by means of a study plan. h) Helping learners' learning difficulties, either individually or in groups. Helping learners difficulties by means of taking the process and study outcome. In the learning process there are several elements, among others, namely the use of methods to explain material to students. An interesting method that is with pictures and colorful papers will attract students learn the material for recorded funds that have been submitted .. i) Using the methods vary. The method will vary very helpful in the process of learning and teaching. With this new method will allow teachers to deliver material to students. j) Use good media, and should match the learning objectives. Here are some tips you can use to enhance your learning motivation, good luck!
@mayrah (1144)
• United States
30 Dec 10
well explained. Thank you
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
30 Dec 10
Hello friend, i don't have my own kids and i will give you just an opinion, not experience, but i know that when i have child i'll make everything in way for it to have good education and to be good discipline. At first i plan to read child books to my kid and to education it on fundamental relations between people - to teach it which is good and bad behavior, how we can act with the bad behavior of the others. Second is to draw few skills which are important in life for everyone of us. One of all will be the school and university education. Of course i'll try to give my personal experience as example, because teaching someone with your own experience and example for me is the most important thing in life. Third and important for me is to educate the kid to make it's own decisions, when it has it's own opinion based on it's personal experience. I know that if you give your kid choice since little child it will know how to choose the best and all that mixed with the pure feelings of the kids, it must take right decisions, seeing what will happen after it's own decisions. I think that children are much more strong than we, adults are. I think that their choices are based on their own feelings and it's strongly for them to be bribe with something. That's the most important for me - when someone is following his own heart, knowing the result.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Dec 10
hi mayrah when my son was little I played to his interests and suggested books at the library about the things he was really interested in and he really blossomed in private school and took junior college math while he was a senior in high school. He grew up to be a computer programmer but sadly he only has a part time job so is still looking for a full time job. our Californina economy still is really bad and our president really is not doing enough to get our people back to work.
• Philippines
30 Dec 10
if you want the child to study harder, make education the incentive. anyone who learns something knew feels empowered. so as soon as your child learns something, have a fun activity with them incorporating the lessons they were studying. mix study and play and you will get good results. should your child not make the grade, do not admonish because this is humiliating and will give the impression that school/ studying can either lead to praise or punishment. so instead of being harsh, talk to the child and set expectations and tell them why low grades are not good (talks about the future). remember, a child is not an idiot. just someone in a smaller/ younger body that has incredible intelligence especially when trained correctly.
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
30 Dec 10
Every child is different. SOme are motivated by the good grades they get for studyin hard while some might be put off by the thought of it. There's no one method that suits all. My form of motivation is to do something i enjoy doing, after which i will put my focus on my studies. IF one is not concentrating, it does not matter if they are staring at the book for 1 hour or 1 whole day.
• Canada
30 Dec 10
You must start long before they attend school. From the time they are babies, you must show your genuine joy and interest when they learn new things, even if it is a skill you consider simple, or a fact you consider boring or useless. If a child pulls apart a houseplant because he wants to "see what it looks like on the inside" and you punish him without acknowledging his desire to learn and helping him understand how plants work, you have destroyed a little bit of his love of learning. Of course you must teach the lesson that we cannot destroy the property of others just to satisfy curiousity, but you can guide him to books that will give him the information he seeks, or better yet, help him grow his own plant that he can take apart when it grows big enough! It you keep learning, and show your child that you think it is wonderful whenever he learns something, he will already value learning by the time he enters school. He will be more driven to do well, because he knows that you value learning and will be proud of him when he learns and does well.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 10
I am a parent of three children and a primary school teacher. I think that is a superb idea to make the evening after school a study session and not allow them to watch television. I think other activities to build intelligence are learning to play a musical instrument and reading books including great literature. When out for example on the way to and from school I advise a game of questions and answers concentrating on the the children's school work. I advise the parents working closely with their child's teachers. I give my teenage son rewards like for his exams this time around were an A grade £20, a B grade £10 and a C grade £5. I ended up giving him £75. If a child is struggling I think small steps and lots of praise works well. The good should be praised so the child does less of the bad. I learned in my teacher training "Catch them being good".
• Philippines
29 Dec 10
I grew up in a less stricter home. I was allowed to watch TV and play video games but I was an honor student and graduate college with academic distinction. I believe it depends on the child. I remember in grade school, I was trained with studying habits. Despite being allowed to do certain things, my mom would make me study some lessons ahead of school so that when the lesson comes, I already know about it. She would give me mini quizzes to answer. During study time, there's no TV but after that, I can do everything I want. Also, I got "rewards" when I get an honor at school. It's usually a toy so that's some motivation for me. When quarterly examinations are near, my mom & dad would prepare a lengthy exam at home for me to answer after studying. By grade 4, I was already on my own. I'd say I wasn't as studious, it was because there were personal problems. But later on, I was able to study on my own. My philosophy is that a child must be trained with study habits but it should be balanced with play because a child is still a child. Without play, a child may be miserable. I remember my classmates were not allowed to watch TV during schooldays. That would be torture for me. An important thing to remember though is that study should come first and when everything is done, the child can do anything after that. Also, rewards are very handy but never reward the child with food like sweets/candies/chocolates. This is my own experience though. It may not apply to every child. If you like, can combine all the strategies posted by all your responders. You can find what you like and someday experiment with them and see what will be suited for your future child. Nice topic. Have a lovely day!
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
29 Dec 10
Children do need incentive. They need a little something ectra to make them want something more. They have to see the motivattion as something they want as much as something you want.
@parveen86 (101)
29 Dec 10
I don't think so much studying is really good I'm planning on making my son study 3 times a week and still let him watch t.v only if his grades are good. I really think that after a certain amount of studying your just increasing the Childs stress level. Kids need things in proportions.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
29 Dec 10
hi, yes, and currently i do that to my niece, just to motivate them to study well, i told them that if they have high grade, i will buy them a cellphone,,,hehe..
@zbt2222 (12)
• China
29 Dec 10
give them some rewards when they study hard. it will words
• Canada
30 Dec 10
Hi, I think in order to discipline them, you either give them a reward or a punishment. Try both methods and see which one is more effective. This is the most basic method that is used in order to make them get into the habit. When you punish them, they will know that if they make the same mistake again, they will face punishment and will suffer. For me, as a volleyball player, our coach would always punish us by doing push ups or sit ups if we don't do something right and I think it is really effective because next time, we know that we should push ourselves harder so that we do not have to go through the same punishment again which works. Just tell them punishments like you are not allowed to hang out with friends until you finish studying and such. I hope this helps!