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Motivating Students to Learn

General Strategies Motivating Students:

*Be Enthusiastic About Your Subject and Incorporate Effective Instructional Behaviors
*Design assignments, classroom activities, and discussion questions that help the students recognize how the course satisfies their needs
*Design your instruction so that your students engage in a variety of activities like listening, writing, talking, designing, creating, solving
*Maintain high expectations for your students
*Help your students set achievable goals
*Tell students what they need to do to succeed in your course
*Use language that implies internal motivation on behalf of the student 
*Emphasize mastery and learning rather than grades
*Give students feedback as quickly as possible
*Reward success
*Introduce students to good work done by their peers
*Give constructive criticism