Motivate our students :)

January 21, 2011

A teacher must know how to motivate his/her students, there different instructional methods must be applied that will suit their instructional plans. With that we were tasked to present different methods that are usually applied in classroom setting. With this way of presenting the pros and cons of using these methods I learned the best method to use when we have a huge class and even small classes. Like demonstration, it is not advisable to use it in large classes for the demonstration won't be visible for all students, but it may aid in step by step procedure. When it comes to engaging the class an instrucional game may do, it is just that sometimes it is time consuming and the students would want more games that's why their mind would be set on games not on the lesson itself. If time is a problem, then drill andpractice is a good method to use, since there are times it became boring choose way on how to make the practice more exciting. Students would always want to enjoy, therefore active engagement could be done live discovery wherein you let your students to develop creativity as well. In doing this, th eteacher must know the solution and students would have information overload--sometimes would also lead to information overload.