Teachers today have various methods for treating their students. While some teachers give awards their students whenever they achieve specific tasks, others regard students' efforts as a reward to be rewarding. From my perspective, the efforts implemented by the students student implement on their work should be rewarded, so that they will always be motivated and have higher self esteem.
To begin with, it is crucial to give prizes for the students' effort, because it enables the students to maintain their motivation to study harder. In general, the students are pleased when they receive prizes for what they did and will work even harder to obtain the reward again. On the other hand, when the students do not receive any prizes, they will believe that it is useless to put significant amount of effort into their work. For instance, since when I was in a middle school, math was my worse subject, no matter how hard I tried to receive a good score. However, as my teacher solely focused on students who showed substantial achievements, my effort was always neglected. As a result, I felt the helplessness and gave up math for good. Thus, rewarding students for their effort is important as it makes them to always stay motivated.
Furthermore, the student’s efforts should be prized, so that they can have a higher self esteem. Holding a self esteem is critical for students and especially, the potential effect it can it can cause on student’s achievements. This basically means that a the high self esteem brings about better achievements. To specify, whenever students are prized by their efforts, they will feel that they are special enough to be prized and have positive feelings about themselves. This is obviously what we call a self esteem that contributes to the student’s achievements. In fact, according to the department of education in Korea, students with the higher self esteem had higher school grades compared to those who had lower esteem. Hence, teachers should be give rewarding their students based on how much effort they implement to grow their self esteem, which is a direct force that results better achievements.
In conclusion, it is fundamental for students to acquire prizes on their effort rather than their achievements. This will enable students to not only to maintain motivation, but also to have high self esteem, which are key factors that will improve student’s achievements. |