TRYING  FOR  MY  BEST  WORK

Some students will give you their best work all of the time, some of them some of the time, and the rest you will be lucky if you get it at all.  It is all in how motivated they are for that perfect paper, or to show their classmates how they scored another perfect paper, or maybe that approval from their parents.  Then on the other hand you have students that just don't have any motivation for that grade.  Why????  Well, for one they might not understand the material, they might have gotten so many wrong answers in the past that they feel defeated, if they did get a wonderful paper their parents might not be the type to acknowledge it.  So as educators it is our job to spark their interest in helping them to achieve those perfect papers and feeling good about them in the process so that they continue doing so.