Five Facts About Motivation That Are Often Misunderstood

Five Facts About Motivation That Are Often Misunderstood from
the Harvard Center on the Developing Child Motivation is a popular topic in
early childhood development. Parents want to motivate their children to
reach developmental milestones. Teachers want to motivate their students to
be more productive. Program leaders want to motivate participants to remain
engaged with their program. With the strong desire to understand and promote
motivation, there are often misconceptions about this complex system of
intertwined social and biological factors that influences people's
motivation to participate actively and productively in schools, jobs, and
communities-and to persevere in the face of setbacks.

Read the 5 facts:
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/5-facts-about-motivation-that-
are-often-misunderstood/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign
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Implications for parents, caregivers, and teachers:
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/how-to-motivate-children-scien
ce-based-approaches-for-parents-caregivers-and-teachers/?utm_source=newslett
er&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=january_2019

Implications for policymakers and public systems:
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/motivation-and-early-childhood
-policy-science-based-approaches-for-policymakers-and-public-systems/?utm_so
urce=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=january_2019