Get Your Students Hired
For those inattentive students I always give them attention one on one so that they know I care.
Hi Stephen,
What a great way to get the inattentive student involved and also to keep students on their toes.
Patricia
Hello Tanya,
What type of reaction do you normally get from the inattentive student when a question is asked of him/her?
Patricia
One technique I like is to ask the inattentive students for their opinion about the material we have just covered. How does it apply to them personally? For example, I teach nutrition, so I ask them how this would apply to their own diet and how they could use that experience to teach their patients about it.
While doing cooking demos I will often have a non-active/attentive student come up and help with the demo or I will have them be "my hands" as I explain verbally what to do. They really have to focus on what I am saying in order to complete the task and they dont want to make a mistake in front of the rest of the class so they are concentrating on doing it right. Everyone will get an opportunity at some point during the class to be chosen (at any random point of the day) so they need to be on their toes at all times.
Hi Shawn,
As long as it is quality time, and students are learning what they are suppose to it is fine.
Patricia
I like to make the lesson for the day as relevant as possible, even if it requires going out on a significant tangent. I believe that this time taken away from plodding through the syllabus is time very well spent.