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A teenager’s motivation is what motivates a teenager to move in one direction or another. For example: learn, develop, acquire, achieve, take the initiative, share with others, etc.
Educational motivation of teenagers
For a teenager, the motives of the intellectual and cognitive plan are important. They are understood, recognized as a thirst for knowledge, the need for their appropriation, the desire to broaden one’s horizons, deepen, systematize knowledge. This is precisely the group of motives that correlates with specific cognitive activity, his intellectual need, which has a positive emotional tone. Following such motives, the student persistently and enthusiastically works with the material, more precisely, on the solution of the educational problem, regardless of fatigue, time, excluding other stimuli and distractions.
Features of motivation of schoolchildren on the example of adolescence
Domestic psychologists believe that one of the central neoplasms of this period is a sense of adulthood, which is expressed in the desire for independence, independence, in asserting one’s personal dignity. Comparing himself with an adult, a teenager does not see any difference between himself and an adult. He (the teenager) rejects his belonging to children, but he still does not have the feeling of true, full-fledged adulthood, but there is a great need for the recognition of his adulthood by others. This experience is very important for personality development in adolescence. It stimulates the activity of a teenager, aimed at assimilation of values, attitudes, norms, which, from his point of view, confirm the idea of him as an adult. A sense of adulthood determines the desire of adolescents to acquire skills and qualities that, in their opinion, characterize an adult and are embodied in their existing models of a “real man” and an “ideal woman”. They want to get involved in activities that are available to them for the first time and where they can showcase their new abilities.
What is the attitude towards learning activities and educational motivation among adolescents? During this period, the motivation for learning decreases, which is explained by an increase in interest in the outside world, as well as a passion for communicating with peers. On the other hand, mature forms of learning motivation are being formed, there is a transition to a new, higher form of learning activity, in which for students its meaning is revealed as an activity of self-education and self-improvement, a transition to a different attitude to learning, which acquires personal meaning during this period.
For a teenager, what is more difficult is more interesting. Creative tasks are interesting, where you can take personal initiative, show what I am capable of.