Strategies to Improve Motivation and Success in a Classroom

This article shows different strategies that can be put into practice in order for students to be motivated and achieve success. Starting from what each student needs in order to do his/her best, in the following sections it will be considered also what can be an obstacle to this process and how to engage students in order to make them feel happy with themselves.

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