Motivation For Black Boys

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by Mikal Ali1 view·Updated Jul 22, 2021
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  1. Hello everyone.
  2. My poster was focused on motivational strategies for positive academic
  3. achievement involving black boys.
  4. And my research question was what motivational strategies attribute to
  5. positive academic achievement when dealing with success or failure in
  6. the classroom, especially with black boys.
  7. My data and results show that self pride and your
  8. ability and your ability to know that you're capable of
  9. doing any goal that you put your mind to.
  10. It has a lot to do with how you deal
  11. with success or failure.
  12. For example, if you get 100% on a test and
  13. you do really well on it, then you know that
  14. your ability to do that math is very um it's
  15. very high and that you would never question your ability
  16. to do math.
  17. But if you get a 40% on that test and
  18. you don't do so well then you know that uh
  19. your effort and how many hours you put into that
  20. math test was not so well and often times when
  21. you have low self esteem and your pride isn't very
  22. high, then you start to attribute your success of getting
  23. 100% to, oh the test was to was too easy
  24. or I got lucky that time instead of knowing that
  25. your ability is always there and you can should never
  26. question your ability to do anything in life.
  27. When you get that 40% of the test, then you
  28. attribute that to your ability and say Oh I never
  29. was good at math.
  30. Anyways again, the most important part of this is that
  31. I know that your ability is always there.
  32. Uh My methodology in my research was reading a book
  33. by dr Kawanza who is an educational consultant and his
  34. book focused primarily on peer pressure for black boys and
  35. overcoming for better academic achievement.
  36. I also search for articles that focused on schools using
  37. strategies to incorporate itself.
  38. Pride improvement, inclination of academic resources and increased guidance.
  39. The data and the results um shown from my research,
  40. I found one case I was outside of school in
  41. the Bronx that had an emphasis, had an emphasis of
  42. self pride and using codes and values to go by
  43. throughout the whole year, which helped them be able to
  44. go through the All the tasks that they do during
  45. school and showed a great result.
  46. At the end of 85% of the students graduating, compared
  47. to the 24% of students graduating surrounding the troubled neighborhoods.
  48. And I think this is a great comparison of rates
  49. from using this emphasis of self pride.
  50. Um In conclusion, I think that we need more inclusion
  51. inclusion, we need more inclusion in the classroom and should
  52. be put into action and focus on teachers, creating relationships
  53. with the students and it would be paramount and the
  54. motivation to do work and to come to class.
  55. Um, in addition to this, I think that we need
  56. to focus on academic improvement with extra days to come
  57. to the classroom and as a result of a significant
  58. improve. As a result, there will be a significant improvement
  59. of literacy and math school scores and the increase in
  60. black teachers can also attribute to the crucial aspect of
  61. relationship building with students.
  62. Thank you all for listening and it was a pleasure
  63. presented to you all.