As the one who spends most time with the high school students at school, many of our students believe that it is the teachers’ job to motivate the students to learn. “it is the teachers’ job to find someway to relate the work to the student and get that student motivated.” (Irina, Jan 26, 2008, EDCI 4322-01). Therefore, teachers should be responsible for students “low motivation, high dropping out” problem. Teachers might cause this problem in several ways: 1) show no care/interest in students learning, 2) use counter-productive motivating strategies, and 3) provide boring, unchallenging, and meaningless instruction.
Teachers: not care
The first one might be that students were never taught right, meaning he or she had teachers that just wanted to collect a pay check and cared less if the student learned the material needed to succeed in the following grade level. They just pass the student, teaching them nothing.—Ally, Jan 28, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
I also feel the teachers aren’t motivating them enough. I think some teachers are in it just for the money. I don’t think it is as common that teachers go beyond their duties to ensure the students are genuinely learning.—Shirley, Jan 28, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
…now the teachers don't have the enough enthusiasm to make the students change their opinion about the classes. If the student is not interested in the subject, they will just teach to the ones who show interest.—Nanynka, Jan 24, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
In most cases, teachers have given up completely, and their students have picked up on that.—Maricela Gonzalez, Jan 25, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
Teachers: low expectations/belief in students
The most of the teachers says that Middle School students such as High School students are not motivated at all in class. I think and believe that all this motivation problems are result of deficit of expectation of succeeding from the students. We as teachers need to be more positive on our student’s potential. We have to push them to believe in themselves.—Carmen, Feb 4, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
If we put all of our effort into teaching and treat our students as responsible people, they will notice it. When I have a strict teacher who puts a lot of work into the lesson, I find that I do a lot more and learn...I have a brother who graduated from high school with a D average. He never took his homework home, never paid much attention in class, and barely survived high school (and my brother and I have good parents, by the way). Unfortunately, while in high school, his teachers had very low expectations of him. Now, he is about to graduate with a Masters in Math Education with a 3.5 or so average and is a genius with computers. --Eldon Clark, Feb 4, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
Teachers: counter-productive motivating strategies
I believe that some students are not motivated because parents, teachers, and administrators don't find the right way to motivate them. Sometimes when they try to motivate them, they cause more pressure on them. They start to feel stressed and scared of the challenges they have to face.—Forest, Feb 2, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
Instruction: boring
Students are not motivated in the middle and high school levels for many reasons. They assume that it's going to be boring and all the classes are the same. The dropping out rates are so high because they know and think that school is boring. —Suki, Jan 26, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
I just believe that if learning was made more fun students would want to participate more. So maybe it's not really the students fault, maybe we have to look at the way they are being taught.—Grace, Jan 30, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
One reason is that the learner in not stimulated enough to learn unfortunately we live in a stimulating society everything is on a computer or on television and most kids just want to sit around and play videogames all day. Most kids need something to keep them stimulated and while in the class room we can’t always offer them that stimulation that they require; so instead they just turn off until they can get back to their IPod, Halo, or MySpace.-- Ry* Feb 1, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
I personally believe students do not want to learn because they are being forced to memorize material to pass an exam. Every time I would go to school I felt I have to do more work. Every assignment I had was boring and tiring. Some of the teachers I had were grumpy and exhausted. I believe that this environment still occurs in today’s schools. Students are not motivated because their activities in class are not interesting and fun. Students are being taught the same thing over and over. Students get bored very easily…Some students drop-out because of financial needs or because they are just tired of school testing. Testing students can result in making a student feel pressured, stressed and nervous. If a student has taken the test more then once, they tend to give up and drop-out.—Cassi, Feb 4, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
Instruction: unchallenging
I know two people who dropped out of high school ... One dropped out because he wasn’t being challenged enough. He could figure out things differently than the teacher but it wouldn’t be acknowledged. So he decided school wasn’t right for him.—Hilda, Jan 28, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
Students from middle/ high school are not motivated because they have not been challenged enough in their classroom. Teachers need to find new ways to motivate their students to increase their interest in learning.—Lidia, Feb 3, 2008, EDCI 4322-60
Instruction: meaningless/useless
In today's schools students are given uninteresting work and then given the answer without reasons behind why the work has to be done. Most teachers simply assign work without reason. I believe everything that must be done in schools must have a logical reason behind it in order for students to really have the desire to do it. Some students may not be willing to do the work still, but will have a better understanding as to why they must do it.-- Irina, Jan 26, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
I believe that students choose to withdraw from school, because they feel that the institution (that they have been prodded to believe in) has nothing left for them.—Maricela Gonzalez, Jan 25, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
If the students are not being motivated to do their best, they will see it as a waste of time. Why go to school if they feel all they’re doing is wasting their time?--Shirley, Jan 28, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
The dropping out rate, I believe is too high because since they don't seem to like school students might think that they are wasting there time. I unfortunately have met people that don’t think is school is made for them and decide to drop out.—Helen, Jan 28, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
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Demotivator 1: The Individual
Demotivator 2: The Teachers
Demotivator 3: The Parents
Demotivator 4: Education System
Demotivator 5: The Environment
Motivation Solution: Pay them?
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Motivation Solution 3: The Teachers
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