Motivating through reinforcement
Practice Makes Perfect!!! Work with your students everyday as if it were the first time in your classroom. Lecture, discuss, motivate and listen to their needs. Have an interchange of ideas bouncing off the lectures. Listen to new theories. Reinforce the subject by answer question forums many times with different students, make them feel part of what is important to pass the subject on to other peers. Repeat the subject matter in difernt ways so as not to bore and lose your student. This is hard work. Feel at this time yhou are enlightning a great mind.
Sonia,
This is what professional development is about for instructors. Striving to be an instructor of excellence should be the goal of each teacher. In addition, doing the different things you have listed makes teaching more enjoyable for instructors because the new activities help motivate them as well.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
