model the behaviour you want from them
Motivating Students
Strategies to motivate, especially using ICT
Model. Model in your own teaching behavior the lessons you want the students to learn. If you want your students to become careful thinkers, demonstrate careful thinking. Students will study what you do even more than what you say, so you would be wise to display the habits of fairness, circumspection, balance, justness. Show that you understand with sympathy all sides of a controversial issue. Show that the knowledge you are teaching has a definite and useful impact on your life, attitudes and behavior.
And be sure to admit freely when you don't know the answer or when you have made a mistake. Students report feeling increased rather than decreased respect for professors who admit their ignorance. After all, students are not looking for someone perfect; they are looking for someone human and genuine.
model the behaviour you want from them
Illustrations can be drawn from fiction, music, film, cartoons, newspaper articles, scripture, metaphors, personal experience, technology, art, polls, in-class experiments, in-class ad hoc minidramas, nature, etc., etc.
Take the class outside to an anthill to teach them about society; bring an apple to class to slice up and divide among everyone to teach the concept of limited resources; have one student lead another blindfolded student around the room to teach about faith; develop a field assignment that requires students to go somewhere and discover something, interview someone, or find something and then come back and report on it or write it up. In short, be creative. There are hundreds of ways to make learning varied, dynamic, and exciting.
make learning dynamic varied exciting fun
Teaching & Learning Strategies
*** Teaching & Learning Strategies - (follow links to further info on each): matrix, brainstorming, questioning, roles, collaborating etc
The activities in the sample units provide examples of varied teaching and learning approaches and contextx that meet individual learning needs of students. This resource outlines some planning models and frameworks including:
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Social Learning includes formal learning, informal learning, communication,
collaboration and knowledge sharing!
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Mindset
In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They’re wrong.
In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have had these qualities.
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Updated on Oct 26, 09
Created on Feb 25, 09
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