Excitement
Can you ever be to enthusiatsic about what you are teaching?
Joseph,
Passion for one's field and enthusiasm for teaching about it goes a long way in getting students engaged. When you bring both to the classroom or lab you know you are going to be able to focus your students in on the content and enhance their learning growth.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
If you show enthusiasm about a subject matter, so will the student. If you start the lecture by saying, " this next chapter is so boring", the student has already tuned you out and will not pay attention. You need to sound and express excitement about your field and course material..
Michael,
I agree. We need to bring our A game to the classroom/lab every time we teach so our enthusiasm will spread to our students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I believe to show true enthusiasm you have to love what you teach at the very least like what you teach.
Shiketheia,
Passion for one's field and enthusiasm for teaching it are important for learning success. It is for sure if we are not excited about our field and teaching about it the students won't be either. Keep up your enthusiasm and have fun with your teaching.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I feel you can be enthusiastic about what you teach. I love the subjects I teach and my students know it. They comment regularly how they feel I just love the subject of medical billing and coding. We try to do fun things in the class to make coding fun instead of just lecturing, we are very hands on with the material.
Eric,
We need to bring two elements of professionalism, one you mentioned, enthusiasm and the other passion for our subject. If we don't it is for sure the students won't be.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Sometimes that can be the most challenging part about teaching but if the students pick up on the lack of enthsiasm they tend not to want to learn
yes it is possible to be too enthusiastic but its not a bad thing. The more enthusiastic you are the better your students will learn and the more engaged they will be.
Amy,
Probably but you would have to push it pretty hard to do so. If you combine enthusiasm with passion for your field you will find that you have a nice mixture that will engage students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
