Implementation Of Rewards To Increase Early Childhood Learning Motivation

Abstract

Early childhood has a short concentration of power, so an interesting learning process must be carried out so that children can concentrate for a long time. Giving rewards both verbal and non-verbal rewards is one of the efforts made to increase early childhood learning motivation so that they feel happy and have a long enough concentration in learning. The purpose of this research is to describe the implementation of giving rewards to children aged five years to increase children's learning motivation. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods with data collection techniques of observation, interviews and documentation. After the required data is collected, then data analysis is carried out using the data analysis technique of the Miles and Huberman model which consists of three activities, namely data reduction, data presentation and also drawing conclusions. Based on data collection and analysis, the results show that implementing rewards in early childhood can increase children's learning motivation.The reward given is in the form of verbal reward, non-verbal reward, reward in the form of notes and reward in the form of goods or objects. The verbal reward given is like saying "MashaAllah", "Tabarakallah", "cool", "great", "woow, amazing", "solid", "once“, “good“, “nice“, “good job“. Non-verbal rewards are also given give applause, high five (one finger high, two finger high, three finger high and so on), as well as thumbs up at the child when it has successfully started, to finish all. Then when finished, the child is given a reward in the form of a note such as a star image from one to five adjusted with the child's ability to complete what is ordered. And the rewards Finally, given the opportunity to play the games provided such as games of snakes and ladders, ludo, cooking and number cards.