How to Awaken Your Child's Interest in Learning
Motivation for learning is formed by creating conditions in space for studying the surrounding world.
In general, the desire to study, to learn about the world and to move forward is an integral part of a person. And in essence, providing motivation will simply be providing space and conditions in which the child will be interested in studying, trying new things further and further.
From a young age, it is necessary to show the child the diversity of the surrounding world, the diversity of activities and creativity.
Children are curious, their minds are inquisitive by nature, and if you give them food from the very beginning to satisfy their inquisitive mind, then, one might say, the child gets a taste for it.
Of course, on this path it is important to monitor the child's inclinations to something, his personal interests and passions, not to exert pressure and not to impose your opinion, not to try to realize your childhood dreams. On this path it is important to be a guide and assistant, a back side.
In words, everything looks simple, but this process is complex, unpredictable, but fascinating.
When choosing methods to support children's motivation to study, it is necessary to take into account what age group the child is currently in.
Young children tend to act based on internal motivation. This includes internal interest, curiosity, and inquisitiveness. This is the ideal motivation. And for children in this age group, it is recommended not to interfere with the child and follow his interest, support and encourage him in every possible way.
At primary school age, external motivation is already involved, emotions, the desire to take a certain role in the class, to be noticed, to feel significant, following authority can come into play.
In this age group, the most important thing is not to make mistakes for parents. Do not impose your opinion, do not put pressure and do not focus on low grades. On the contrary, the child needs to be shown that grades are not the main thing and they do not equal real knowledge.
The role of the teacher, his brightness, charisma and qualification are very important. The contact between the teacher and the student is important. If the teacher himself is passionate about his subject, then he will be able to interest the child and make him fall in love with the subject.
To summarize all of the above, we can highlight the main methods of motivation:
- personal interest, curiosity;
- encouragement, public recognition;
- selection of qualified teachers;
- support for all endeavors and the absence of punishments and deprivations for poor academic performance;
- personal example of parents;
- environment, examples in the environment;
- teaching responsibility and independence.
The personal example of parents deserves special attention. This is a very powerful motivation that does not require any manipulation of the child, regrets about how to choose a method and influence on motivation.
The desire to learn, to discover new things, to achieve goals, to strive for results is simply built into a child as his life progresses. Children take everything from their parents as a base, onto which their personal experience is superimposed.
And if parents themselves lead an active lifestyle and work on their motivation, then their children may not need to select any motivation methods at all.
