Monday, March 19, 2007
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 was pretty interesting for me to read. I have always felt that in everything you try to do you have to make people believe in it. The same goes for teaching. The majority of your students don't want to be there nor do they want to learn the material that they think they already know. Students need to be made believers. It is your job to tell them why this stuff is important, how it applies to them, and what's the big deal if they don't learn it... then you can give them the information.
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"It is your job to tell them why this stuff is important, how it applies to them, and what's the big deal if they don't learn it." Amen! Or even better, help them figure out for themselves why it's important, how it applies to them, and what the big deal is if they don't learn it. It always carries more weight when they figure out for themselves than when someone just tells them.
good reflection,
dr.theresa
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