How Can the Kumon Method
Motivate Students?
Success is a powerful motivator. If students are able to
experience quick success with Math or Reading, they inevitably
become motivated to achieve even better results in the subject.
Kumon motivates students by making it possible for them to
succeed.
The Kumon Method enables students to experience success from
their very first day of study. Kumon's comfortable starting point
not only ensures achievement, but it also facilitates the
development of a daily study routine. The daily assignments
provide a sense of assurance that progress is being made toward
long-term goals. Each repeated assignment in Kumon is an
opportunity to try again and to improve. This daily opportunity
for achievement and praise cultivates a positive tenacity in
students. Parents have the opportunity to become involved and
positively influence their children's Kumon study. Parental
participation and commitment to Kumon fosters effective home
education. Through goal setting and projection making, Instructors
enable students to experience a genuine sense of accomplishment.
All of these components of Kumon inspire a great deal of
motivation in students.
It does take time, though, for the Instructor and parents to
motivate students. Once they acquire the skills, confidence and
study habits that Kumon strives to instill, however, they will
truly become self-learners. It is very satisfying for students
who, having been held to a high standard, understand that their
achievements are the product of their own honest efforts. There is
no substitute for the genuine motivation students can secure for
themselves through their study in the Kumon Method.