How to Fix Laziness of Grade IV Pupils?

I. SITUATION Part of the teachers’ concern relates to uncertainty as to what approaches are most reasonable and effective. The need for confidence regarding the impact of particular strategies is important to teachers given that the ability to manage pupils effectively is a critical component of their sense of professional identity (McCormick & Shi, 1999), and that ‘‘disciplinarian’’ ranks third, after ‘‘leader’’ and ‘‘knowledge dispenser’’ in the metaphors teachers provide for their work. Based from my observation of my day to day daily teaching activities with my pupils I have found out that problems exist with my pupils. Most of them are lazy. Why did I say this? I asked them for instance, to copy certain important key notes o the board or even in their book out of 28 pupils only 30% follow, I gave them assignments when I checked it only 15 pupils out of 28 did their assignments, during discussion few were only listening some are doing something. In this situation I decided to conduct an action research in order to determine its main cause and discover the best strategies and techniques to solve this problem.

II. PROBLEM
There are many reasons why pupils are lazy in their activities in school. The following are the possible causes of this problem:
1. Lack of interest
A pupil is said to be in a lazy state of mind with respect to a task when he is not properly motivated to do the task. Lack of motivation to do a task can spring up from many causes such as physical lethargy, lack of reinforcement in the form of rewards, failure to value the reward intended for the task appropriately, preoccupation of mind with some other things which is important to the person concerned, lack of interest in executing the task, all can be regarded as the cause of laziness.
2. Environmental Factors
There are many disturbance inside the classroom such as noisiness of their classmates, physical appearance f the classroom, not related task given to pupils and etc this