The article is devoted to one of the important problems - increasing the motivation for learning in children. The author, summarizing her own experience, proposes pedagogical techniques and methods that help to increase the motivation of primary art school pupils. The tendency in modern music pedagogy: the activation of musical and aesthetic education process is due to the paramount role of creativity in understanding the world, the need for comprehensive personal development, child’s natural activity, requiring creative functioning, close and familiar from childhood. The creative process trains and develops memory, thinking, activity, observation, logic, intuition, purposefulness. Creativity gives birth to vivid imagination in a child. The relevance of the given topic lies in the fact that any children’s art school teacher in their practice is faced with the problem of motivating students, as well as the problem of reduced motivation and interest to the instrument at the beginning of training, to the accordion in particular. In connection with the change in the status of children’s art schools, there has also been a partial decrease in the understanding among parents and children of the importance of attending a children’s art school as an educational institution, where the learning process itself is of systematic character and requires students’ perseverance and activity. An urgent need to search for new approaches and teaching methods to increase students’ interest in learning and their level of motivation has arisen.

Keywords: motivation, a children’s art school, teaching approaches and methods.