Okay, I am not an instructor, yet, but I wanted to help the younger students to keep going. I usually try and give them some sort of motivational talk before and after class and if I get the treat of observation that night, I normally critique their work and emphasize the good stuff that they did. It seems to work but I wanted a wider range of options to use...thankyou. If I owned the school, I would definatly use some of your ideas, but due to our strict tradition, modern motivational tools are prohibited i.e. Century's motivational patch system.