By encouraging students to learn through students' centered participation in learning processes and learning activities such as assignments, term papers etc
1. Praise students for their good work in ways big and small.
2. Encourage the students to ask questions. Make the class lively and interactive.
3. Bring the mood of the students into the topic. Make sure that your students are ready to receive the message you are going to deliver by asking questions, giving them handouts, showing models etc.
4. Interact with the students beyond class hour. Give them parental touch. Pay personal attention to each and every student.
5. Give assignment and correct the copies on time. Provide constructive feedback.
6. Maintain eye contact with the students. Move around the class room as you teach. Nod your head to show that you are listening to them.
7. Encourage students to share their ideas and comments. You'll never know what students don't understand unless you ask them.
8. Revision must be done after every chapter. Surprise test, Quiz etc. should be conducted after every chapter.
9. Know your students by their names and use their names as often as possible.
10. Vary your instructional strategies; use lectures, power point presentations, demonstrations, group discussions, case studies, study tours etc.
11. Be expressive. Smile as often as possible. There should be right balance of rigor and humor.
12. Put some excitement into your speech, modulate your voice. Purposeful body movements, gestures etc.
13. Give lots of real-life examples and make a connection between what the lecture material is and real life.
You can use some gamification tools that make feel the students playing rather than learning (Create interactive, team-based games that make the students exploring the topics on their own).
Also effective is grouping students together and set a learing goal which they can archive by methods choosen by their own.
Active and learner-centered pedagogies are indeed a great help to trigger student motivation : problem based and/or project based learning, if you can design a full part of a curriculum. Getting students to work in teams, on tasks that need collaboration is at the heart of these pedagogies.
In a smaller scale, instructional strategies such as reverse pedagogies or flipped classroom are helpful : getting the students to carry out research, or work on a problem set, or readfrom a textbook/watch a video, at home on a specific topic, to then discuss it in class or get to practice what was learned.
Classroom design is also important to maintain student motivation : the SCALE UP project by Robert Beichner can give you interesting insight into what types of classroom settings actually facilitate active, collaborative learning.
One of the best ways to motivate our students is to share our enthusiasm. When we are excited about teaching, they will be much more excited about learning. It’s that simple.
We should tell them success stories and give them real life examples.
Initially the educator needs to get to know the students. Then he or she needs to set realistic performance goals or objectives and helps students achieve them by encouraging them to set their own reasonable goals. This is how my motivation process works with my students within any course.
Think the approach can be different depending whether the students are working adults or without working experience, age groups, maturity levels, different VARK learning styles, subscribers of Theory X & Y etc. E.g.
Working adults might need real / actual examples how they can apply what they have learned in practical working environment as a motivation.
Younger / Immature students might need to be spoon-fed or prepared everything for them to learn.
If possible it is good for a teacher to assess each student's VARK (Visual, Aural, Read/write & Kinesthetic) learning styles and focus more on the appropriate / majority style(s) so that they are motivated to learn.
Theory X students might need to be micro-managed / supervised closely be it homework, assignment or project paper whereas Theory Y student might just need some pointers / big picture / end outcomes to motivate them etc.
The best way to motivate students, in my opinion, is to stimulate their thinking process by setting challenges in front of them, in a classroom setting it may be through solving of numerical problems, derivation of results to theoretical problems, or engaging the students to participate in ppt presentation/ talk session before an academic audience, most importantly the teacher need to bring forward those areas of the discipline where satisfactory progress is yet to be made and the interested student may be inspired to take up studies in that particular subject area , to summarize, a teacher needs to teach the students how to swim, and then show them the ocean of knowledge.
Use a variety of student-active teaching activities. ...
Set realistic performance goals and help students achieve them by encouraging them to set their own reasonable goals n etc. (https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/ )
I would like to listen to those teachers who have much more knowledge about what is going on in the real-world not written or mentioned in the books. The teachers who have the ability to related books contents to real-world works will be more able to inspire the students to compare other teachers.