The best motivation is growth experience

The best motivation is growth experience

 

I have been engaged in education. Starting with infants and toddlers, there is no age group for me not to teach even elementary school children, junior high school students, high school students, college students, 50s older women, and 80s grandparents. Each time I thought I would give people a praise or an incentive to make them interested in learning. I tried to raise their learning motivation by giving praise to a small answer, or even a candy to elementary school children. But I read a book that I found that this might not be a good thing but a mistake.

<Harvard Business Review> In the January 2010 issue, there was a study of differences in opinions about the "motivation" of the bosses and their subordinates. In a questionnaire survey of 600 managers of various companies asking them to "order the most important factors that motivate their subordinates," they compared 12,000 diaries of their subordinates, and the results were almost the opposite of each other. Bosses responded that they thought that their men motivated by their recognition, when they offered incentives, when they collaborated with their peers. On the other hand, about 76% of the subordinates said that the experience of making the best day for them was the day that they saw great progress in their lack of support from their bosses.

That is, praise and incentives are the result of not being so motivating. Even when the boss does not praise and does not give incentives and he has made progress on his own, that is to say, when he has made progress on his own, from the things he might not have been supported by the boss but rather criticized, then his sense of accomplishment is motivated. Prior to receiving praise from his boss, he had been motivated by satisfaction, and his superiors mistakenly thought his subordinates were encouraged because of them. Praise and incentives are only incidental, and the greatest source of motivation is their own growth experience.

So, I know that just like in the workplace, in order to motivate students to learn in the denomination and the classroom, it is a good way to throw goals and do them on their own, or to jump over difficult work for oneself. It seems that there is no motivation except for achieving satisfaction by achieving somethings for oneself and getting a sense of accomplishment.