The problem of the development of motivation to study at middle school students

Abstract

In this article demonstrates a brief overview of works on the development of motivation to study at middle school students. When children study in an educational institution for parents and professionals working with them, it is important to create conditions for the aspiration of children to educational activities. The traditional teaching paradigm doesn’t always provide for techniques, methods and methods for the development of internal motivation to study, as a result of which external motivation to study develop widely. The problem of the development of motivation to study is relevant at any stage of education, however, in middle school, this issue is especially acute in connection with the age transition that most children are experiencing. In the process of training future specialists in the field of education, working in a competence-based approach, it becomes necessary to search for new forms and methods of developing motivation to study of middle school students. In the article the authors divorce the concepts of «cognitive motivation», «learning motivation», «motivation to study». The authors presented various classifications of types of motivation to study, clarified the age and psychological characteristics of the motivational sphere of middle school students. In the article highlights and describes the features of the process of developing motivation to study in middle school, and also considers two ways of developing motivation to study of students. The authors present the results of the analysis of the survey of future specialists in the field of education, dedicated to identifying problems in organizing the process of developing motivation to study of middle school students. The article presents the results of a study of the relationship between the found problems and the transition to distance learning.