MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES

There is a common belief to think that teacher do everything perfect, we are the authority so we have how to teach without any need of innovation or change. But we as a teachers are aware that we have to be always learning, I mean, if we do not want to fail, we have to improve our techniques daily. We are not going to teach in the same way our teacher taught us when we went to the high school, because the time pass by and we have to motivate our students and motivate ourselves. 

It's really hard for a teacher who is 30 years working in a high school to make their students become motivated, because it's a long time and s/he has to innovate a lot in order to make their students think about their education. 

For me, the motivation is extremely important, but not just for students, for loving what they are studying, it is also important for teachers, because if a teacher is not motivated in what s/he is doing, s/he cannot transmit the motivation to their students, so h/se will be (instead of motivating) so boring. It is like a loop in which everything is linked by. 

Here you have a link to test your strategies to motivate your students:

http://www.zoltandornyei.co.uk/uploads/motivational-strategies-english.pdf