Hi Shawnna,
I concur! What an awesome, combination to have fun while learning!
Patricia Scales
Hi LAURENT,
Students get really excited/interested whenever we can share real life experiences with them.
Patricia Scales
I find that students get excited about doing projects or tasks when they get up and move around, If you bring the excitement then its hard not to follow! Putting "fun" into the learning seems to work well!
Hi David,
What a great combination to have fun while learning. Students are more interested when learning is made fun.
Patricia Scales
through the sharing of true life experience and the application and outcome of some of the content of the course in a real life situation
I teach baking and pastry and I get students excited by showing them little tricks to make their tasks easier and giving them some fun things to do. We really need to have fun.
Hi Sherise,
Students really get pumped up when they know that something is in the making for them. Continue to give your students incentives.
Patricia Scales
Hi Marc,
Students enjoy relevant and up-to-date information. When information is current students tend to have more of an interest in the topic.
Patricia Scales
Hi Rita,
I like your outlook! Continue to push your students to be the VERY best!
Patricia Scales
What I use are incentives. I let them know they can get credit for certain assignments and credit for involvment in discussions. Let them know when we have a special guest and they are involve in the speaker conversation that is part of the participation credit.
The way I try to get my students excited about course content is to make it modern and relevant. In the Small Business course I teach, I like to show more relevant movies to make the ideals sink into their minds better. I feel that giving rewards and also having a set schedule of assignments and tests make the students feel like the course is more of a "team" effort.
This is an easy one for me. I truley love the material I present. I am always looking for more information, whats new and better ways to present. How are other instructors presenting. I tell my students always be an observer. What do I like when go into this doctors office? What don't I ever want to see in my office? Take pride and ownership in everything you do. Anyone can take a patient back into a room, but do you want to do a job or be awesome and kick butt (while always being professional).
Hi Diane,
Super! Students love it when they get to perform in a real setting as they will be doing on the job.
Patricia Scales
One method I use to get students excited is to inform them of the Service Learning at the Health Screenings that will take place in the 3rd week of the course. We will be taking care of real patients one on one instead of working on one another in class.
A second method I use is to break the class up in three groups for different assignments and at the end you will present and win a prize.
I tell them some stories about the content and the experiences that I have had with it.I give them ideas to discuss later on about how the items that they are learning about has influced them and how this will affect them later on.
I explain to my students where I get my passion for education, which includes an experience where I was in an airplane crash in the middle of the jungle in South America and that I was really scared, but that fear came and left with time. However a fear that never left me was the fear of feeling undereducated in a foreign nation. I then have their undivided attention. After that I explain that I would like them to join me in my effort to change the education level in my nation by standing shoulder-to-shoulder and realistically looking at how to change that issue. And, if we do that, we realize that change starts with each and every one of us. When I change my level of education, then I splash on those around me - my family, friends, and acquaintances. That passion will radiate to others so that their internal "fire"/desire for education will be a roaring fire not a smoldering cold ember. I truly believe that "education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire".
Being on the job for many years before I started teaching is a good start for me. It shows them that they to with time can gain the skills to keep them working in this industry. I also point out the many other things that this could lead them to in the future. There will always be a need for the trade they are learning.
I agree on this. The students always enjoy hearing about your life experiences. It also helps them start to interpret classroom situations into real life situations and start to have them get their critical thinking caps on.
I tell them about how much I love the career that they have chosen, and how much I like to share with them the things that I have learned.
Ms. Scales, during our first class, I ask students to explain why they have chosen to pursue a business degree. I ask them to share their personal / professional goals and tell me what business class they have most enjoyed. I also ask them to share what they will bring to our learning community. Then I tie something in from our class content that addresses their interests or particular skills.
