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Even though our students may arrive to our classrooms with a certain level of “motivation”, there is a lot we as instructors can do to encourage motivation. We have identified several ideas one can utilize to entice motivation amongst students, they are as follows: - Be encouraging, point out areas in which students are achieving and succeeding. This communicates to them that they have potential. - Ensure to incorporate various learning styles in your teaching methods. This ensures that students are not left out and their style of learning is targeted which “motivates” success. - When you notice that a student is “disengaged”, pay attention to the method you are utilizing to instruct or the potential reasoning for having lost that individuals interest. - Vary up the environment, don’t let it get stagnant. - Bring in guest speakers. Sometimes students become all too familiar with your teaching style and could use a little “pizzazz” in the room to freshen up the perspectives. - Balance challenge in your class. Make sure material taught is not too easy and not too hard. - Create an atmosphere that is open and inviting, positive and encouraging. - Ensure students feel valued. - Make it real, make the material relevant to “the real world” i.e. using lived experiences. - Help students find personal, individual meaning and relevance out of the material.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">There are many motivational speakers, as instructors and educators, we are in a position to act as such regarding our subjects, classes, and/or courses but we too must possess motivation and be driven to want to promote motivation within our students.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Motivational instruction can be learned and developed! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">

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