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Teens & Motivation: A Research Project & How You Can Help

The topic of teens and motivation is one that I thought a lot about when my children were in this age group & one I think about all the time as a teacher.

  • What motivates our teens to keep practicing and keep improving?
  • How can we, as educators, and parents, help?
  • What do the teens we work with need more of so that they stay engaged and interested in improving?
  • What keeps them motivated to continue playing through the teen years?
Teens & Motivation - a research project

These are questions my colleague Dr. Rebekah Hanson and I are currently researching on teens & motivation and we need your help!

We are currently in the process of collecting answers directly from 100+ teenagers who play a musical instrument.

We’d love your students, or child(ren), to be a part of it.

The goal is to get responses from students from many different areas and programs to help give a clearer picture of what motivates teens we work with.

Our results will be presented at the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) conference in March 2020. We plan to also share our research at the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA) conference next May.

I will also be sharing an article with you here about what we find out so you can learn from this research too.

Please help us by sharing the links below – I can’t wait to share what we learn about teens and motivation with you.

~ Christine

Students can fill out our anonymous survey here:

Link for Suzuki Teens & Motivation:

 https://forms.gle/LCzKSWkJQEnKQhDx6

Link for Traditional (non-Suzuki) Teens: 

https://forms.gle/nLHoTpje7YFqve2L8

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