You as a teacher want for your students to learn and work a lot? So do I. Now I can tell you something that works with us. I teach English as a foreign language. And in class we carry out diverse and varied activities, so the thing turns out as something interesting. All I can tell you about is something I owe to others. As well I try to give some doses of pushing my students upward in their learning process, in class and outside. For example I write something as a group or class email I address to all of them, and there I insist on some points, like set and assign some homework, I let them know what is working better lately in class, etcetera. I address those emails to them as blind copies, so their email contacts keep protected. As well some of those doses are directed to foster learning in them, to arouse their learning. For example I tell them about some learning strategies they can use to learn English, and which ones are taken from my own learning English of from Rebecca O