#4. Love, love, love

 We teachers have amply heard that motivation is important for our students, and it’s so indeed. But let me tell you something today, in case it may help you in class if you are a teacher. 

We have insisted a lot on motivation, but also we can consider two more points that may help out. 

Let’s be careful because we may have stuffed and crammed our children with toys and videogames and trifles, so they now cannot enjoy … their lessons too. 

You know, when some kids – or adults alike! – get so engaged with what their dear teacher is presenting in class, well, then, they may work so nicely and with a great effort. 

Moreover love is something that also pushes us forward to make an effort, to study, to learn, to strive to learn. 

Do our kids know love at all? Love to their parents, to God, to their classmates, to their teacher. One kid with love to mom and dad may overcome his laziness and begin to study and do his homework in his room. Who has not met something like that? 

As well that kid may be gaining love to the school subject, even to the curriculum or study program, and even get enthused at the school year start when he gets to know that this year he’s going to learn a lot of things! 

On my blog, I mean the first one I began to post, and which one you can access on the left hand side of this very blog, I posted quite many entries on games. Even on #259 I posted a huge list of them, and games may be useful for extra-school English learning, yet also let’s be serious: our students ought to also sit to study and do homework activities, although they may not be games: over time they’ll get a lot of motivation about that school subject. 

Let’s be not nearsighted or short-sighted. Our kids can do big things and acquire a study habit. I said before that games can be used at out-of-school activities: I think that also you teacher may use those games on some special school day, or one day that you believe you’ve got to shift activities and change the curricular stuff.

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