Ten ways to reward, recognize, motivate, encourage?

Question

I conduct an adult literacy class of 9. What can I do to reward, recognize, motivate these individuals THAT WOULD REQUIRE VERY LITTLE FINANCIAL EXPENDITURE?

Answer 1

1 - Since there are nine students, plus one teacher, and you are looking for ten ways to reward, motivate, encourage the whole class, I suggest that you ask every one to come up with a way, one way.

2 - People like little point systems like this one on Yahoo! Answers. Two points for this, three points for that, and the big, big ten points for "the best answer". Find a way to reward people with little points.

3 - Link your class to the Internet. Let your students post some of their work on Amazon, on Yahoo! Answer, on other web sites where a larger public can comment on their words. The students can comment on the comments, and that makes things interesting.

4 - Get two good bottles of wine, and have it sit on your desk. The best student will get it, at the end of the class. Of course, the best way to enjoy this wine would be that all students drink it together, first putting up a toast to the success of the "winner".

5 - Put a white marble on your desk. Have all the students vote on who is the best student, at the end of every class. Give the white marble to the best student. How long can one keep the white marble for?

6 - Let one of your student give the class on the Nth lesson.

7 - Move the whole class to a nice picnic spot on the side of a river. Move the whole class to a noisy spot, to the sidewalk on a bridge. People with vertigo will be scared. They will remember that class like no one before. They will have to speak louder because of the noise of the cars. They will make connections that they would never have made otherwise.

8 - Ask people to take a look at books that are, or were, forbidden. There is a good list of those on Wikipedia.

9 - Ask people to rewrite a paragraph or a short chapter or the last page of their favourite novel. The other students can decide on conditions for the rewriting process.

10 - Ask your students to read this, and decide on what's good and what's bad. Pretty soon they will have ideas of their own, and you will find out how to reward, recognize, motivate, and encourage them better than you thought possible.

Answer 2

Let them pick the next topic to read about
Do a "points system" and at the end of the course, reward them for improving, etc. tell them the person with the highest points gets a free dinner with you at a restaurant. Be sure to have a visual chart to keep track of this (This wouldn't cost much)
I don't have ten things, but I hope these help!