How to motivate students?

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Getting secondary school students to achieve the competencies defined in the current educational law decree is not difficult, it really does not require much effort because the traditional school system of reward and punishment (pass vs. fail) derived from the classic way of evaluating competencies and skills is already taken care of with their grades, but all teachers have realized at some point how scarce these assessments are because...

... What's the point of a student seeing his grade if he doesn't learn anything from the correction? And, on the other hand, what's the point of a student passing a subject if the day after the exam he's going to voluntarily forget everything he memorized but didn't learn? Nothing at all.

Beyond the curriculum: Motivating students.
It is necessary to go a little beyond the minimums established in the programming objectives because the objective should not be to "pass" the subject but to "understand" the part of the world that sri lanka phone data fits within the limits of the subject and, above all, to enjoy the subject. The important thing is not the grade, the grade is only a consequence of knowing how to explain what has been learned and, if teachers do it well, all students pass because they all learn. As a teacher, when a student fails, I feel that I also fail because I have not been able to convey the knowledge to him or to motivate him so that what I teach him is, at least, interesting.

Nowadays, with the amount of information we have on the Internet and other easily accessible sources, we cannot continue to focus teaching on teaching theoretical content, but on "shaking" students to always leave them "thirsty" so that they want more, approach the sources and drink with pleasure. But we must not forget to give them tools that allow them to discern which sources are worth drinking from, which will hydrate them and which will poison them.