A Survey Of The Gender Differences In The Motivation Of High School Students' Geography Learning

The new curriculum reform points out that education should pay attention to students' individual character development, which require teachers in teaching should pay attention to their aptitude. To make every student get the best development, teaches should adopt different teaching strategies according to the different characteristics and individual differences of students. Similarly, teachers also need to pay attention to their aptitude in the geographical education. Although it is difficult to implement teaching for each student's personality difference, studying the boys and girls difference of the two big groups and for difference teaching is achievable. Numerous studies have demonstrated that a good learning motivation is beneficial to promote the knowledge acquisition, high student just entering high school, they are facing the transformation of learning methods and thinking, on the one hand, high student have to adapt to high school life, on the other hand, they are also facing the pressure of college entrance examination at the same time. Therefore, it is important to research on the high school of arts living sex differences in geography learning motivation. The author hope that through the research, we could understand the high school of arts living geography learning motivation in sex differences at the present situation and its outside show differences, analysis the causes of the gender differences, finally put forward:operable countermeasures by combining with my own teaching experience.First of all, in this paper, the relevant learning motivation at home and abroad has carried on the induction summary of gender differences research, and we elaborated the related concepts and theoretical basis. Then, grades and the status quo of the differences in learning motivation of seven senior middle schools boys and girls from buji, Shenzhen, guangdong province were analyzed by SPSS software and questionnaire survey. On this basis, the author try to explore the factors influencing the students' gender difference in geography learning motivation. Finally, we put forward the corresponding the high geography teaching strategies by the comprehensive learning motivation in sex differences at the present situation and reasons.In this paper, the high school students geography learning motivation gender difference has carried on the comprehensive research and analysis, the main content of the study as follow:(1) There are gender differences in geography grades and learning motivation of higher school students. SPSS analysis results showed a significant difference of the first semester and second semester freshman year in high school boys and girls of geography grades. Questionnaire survey indicated that the geography learning motivation of both boys and girls also vary, the boys' internal learning motivation is strong, the girl's external motivation is strong. In addition, their geographic interest, success or failure attribution style and learning method all have a certain gender differences.(2) The causes of geography learning motivation differences between girls and boys were resulted by their own internal reasons and also external reason. Internal reason mainly comes from their psychological maturity differences, the differences between the target structure and individual differences; External reasons are mainly affected by geography teachers and the teachers who is in charge of the class. Furthermore, school environment, family environment and social public opinion also will have a certain effect on their learning motivation.(3) Aiming at the current situation of students learning motivation gender differences and reasons, we put forward the following teaching strategies. Teachers' changes:teachers should renew the idea, set up the correct gender consciousness; create the atmosphere of mastery goalin the classroom; help parents correct understanding of geography. Strategies for girls teaching:geographic stories and life practice should be contacted to improve the girl's interest in natural geography; Bring up girls various geographic reasoning ability; Using a variety of teaching media, strengthen the girl's geography space thinking ability; Through a variety of incentive way, improve the self-efficacy of girls in learning geography; Leading the girls to know the correct attribution, and reasonable attribution training should be conducted. For boys students teaching strategies:we should teach them contact with life closely, and train the boys to the geographic perceptual thinking; Use of case teaching, let the boy take the initiative to participate in human geography learning; To guide the boy right attribution, avoid self-interest attributional bias.