I was excited when I found an article online about student motivation and self esteem help, but then I read this line......
..."Students love to get a sweet candy from the teacher..."
Now to be fair, the article also talked about praising the students and encouraging them. However, it goes on to say that self esteem is achieved when:
".....a student feels he or she is able to run a game, winning a key race club, scoring one point for team."
Besides the obvious poor grammar, there are other problems with this statement as well. While it might be true that these things can make a person feel good about themselves, these are not the things that we should be focusing on when developing self esteem. Self esteem comes from within. If you allow external things to determine your level of self esteem, you will never be in control of your feelings. Instead, your feelings about yourself will be controlled by what is happening in your life. If things are good, you will feel good. If they aren't, you won't.
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