Students' motivation and affect improve when they participate in setting goals for themselves and assist in monitoring their progress toward meeting these goals. Contracts and parent involvement can also contribute to personal goal-setting. Students can appropriately take credit when they succeed, and identify strategies for improvement when they fail, when they make appropriate attributions. Students feel more ownership in the classroom when they participate in decision making involving classroom rules and procedures. Use a variety of techniques to receive input from students, and implement positive and helpful suggestions whenever possible.
Students are more motivated to learn when learning is fun and interesting.
Use a variety of approaches, media, game-like activities, and peer interactions to prevent classroom learning from becoming monotonous and routine. Students are motivated to learn when their accomplishments are acknowledged and rewarded. Use positive feedback and praise frequently to demonstrate your positive regard for students' accomplishments. Use rewards, in the form of prizes, privileges, or tokens, when needed to acknowledge achievement and maintain persistence of effort. Intrinsic motivation refers to participation in an activity purely out of curiosity, desire to succeed, or desire to contribute.