INSPIRING   YOUR    STUDENTS ! ! !

Your students have been so use to the same type of speeches from their Teachers each day in terms of getting ready for each subject.  So why not "shake" things up a bit and put some "zap" into what you are saying for your student's minds.  Instead of, "Here are the steps," why don't you say, "How are we going to solve these problems???"  Instead of "This is what you have to use," "What do you think we need to use to solve this problem????"  Make the questions more interesting and not directed exactly pinpointing what they are suppose to do.  Let their minds wonder and help become apart of that learning curve and excite a spark of curiosity of being more apart of deciding how the outcome of a problem is going to be solved.