Then the students revised their papers based on the feedback they received from their teammates and the teacher. Everyone understood and internalized the vision of success here. And the responsibility was clearly theirs. The very process of helping kids prepare to be intelligent reflectors upon their own performance may be one of the most powerful instructional interventions that it's possible to conceive. And that's where the internal sense of motivation comes from.
Kids feel they're in control of their own academic success.
You get motivation by bringing people into the process and helping them feel as though they're on internal control.