Motivation

I'm agree whit the most of the point that the author gives in the article.
Just in one point when referred about the reward. He said that in some cases (the weaker students) can be demotivating, because they are unable to do an activity or they don't can do it all. But I think that a teacher can give a reward to a weaker student if he/she did part of the activity, it is not nessesary that they do all the work, because the teacher knows that it is hard for them try to d all the work, so we must to reward them if they make an effort.

It is true that teachers only makes the motivation in the students decrease , because they doesn't pay attention to the things that could be happened whit the kid (feelings, emotion, fears).However, when the student adops a rebellious behaviour, teacher punished them, and this demotivating the students.
Also when the author referred to the self-esteem, is an importan task, and I think that motivation start by this point, if a student is has a lack of self-confident the teachers has to increase it because the motivation begins at home, so if teacher promote the self- esteem in the students, the child will adops another position and not the rebellious.

In my opinion the most of the schools in Chile do not care for the life of the children, i mean their thoughts, their feelings, their fears. They just want the student gets good results, to put the school in a better categorie, and they does't care too much about the learning of the kids. Is for that reason that Chile has a poor education, and there is a high percentage of children do not reach college.
Class must be more dinamic, and the teachers have to investigate which is the proper way to do activities, and to involve the different abilities of the differents students in the classroom, bacause, we are not all the same person.