Motivating Elementary School Kids During Distance Learning

The webinar provides seven tips for motivating elementary school kids during distance learning. It emphasizes setting short-term goals, celebrating successes, managing roadblocks, fostering a growth mindset, engaging curiosity, establishing relevance, and using rewards wisely. The session includes a Q&A segment addressing specific concerns and offers downloadable resources for further guidance.

What are the two key factors that drive motivation according to the webinar?

• Success and enjoyment

• Success and value

• Value and competition

• Enjoyment and competition

Why is setting short-term goals important for young children?

• It helps them experience success

• It helps them learn faster

• It keeps them busy

• It makes them competitive

What should parents do to celebrate their child's success?

• Ignore it

• Punish them

• Celebrate with high fives or small rewards

• Make them set a new goal immediately

What is a growth mindset?

• Believing in luck

• Believing only talent matters

• Believing effort leads to improvement

• Believing intelligence is fixed

How can parents help children manage roadblocks in learning?

• By ignoring their struggles

• By doing the work for them

• By telling them to give up

• By providing strategies to overcome obstacles

Why is it important to engage a child's curiosity?

• It makes them dependent on others

• It keeps them quiet

• It helps them learn continuously

• It makes them more competitive

How can parents establish the relevance of school subjects to their children?

• By linking subjects to their interests

• By comparing them to other students

• By ignoring their interests

• By focusing only on grades

What is a potential downside of using rewards for motivation?

• It can make children lazy

• It can reduce intrinsic motivation

• It can make children too happy

• It can make children too competitive

When are extrinsic rewards most effective?

• When children are already interested

• When children are not interested at all

• When children are playing

• When children are tired

What should parents consider when choosing rewards for their children?

• What is meaningful to the child

• What is cheapest

• What is easiest for the parent

• What is most popular