Clarification:

Effective teachers plan instructional activities which embrace students' likes and interests to keep them motivated and engaged. For content and instruction to be personally meaningful to students, there must be a clearly communicated purpose for learning with connection to students' interests and ideas where they easily relate. Students need to understand why the content or skill being taught in a lesson is important for them to master and how their mastery will impact them personally in real life. Lessons that value inquiry, curiosity and exploration provide opportunities for students to generate questions and conduct their own research or explore to locate the answers. When students have opportunities to generate their own questions about a given topic, their motivation to learn is usually increased as the learning becomes more student-directed than teacher-directed.