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This was a good read as often times I will need to re-direct or re-engage students in my class. I sometimes forget that they can not sit very long and listen tentatively. There have been many studies done on the brain and research proves that students can only pay attention in incidents of seven minutes. Therefore, if I am teaching a class and am trying to get a point across - some of those students may be tuned out and some may be tuned in.
I have to remind myself of this because I will teach from bell to bell and yet get frustrated when a student is not paying attention or does not understand the concept. They may understand the idea but its just too much for them at one time. This makes sense and the ten strategies presents easy and logical solutions to re-directing or re-engaging, when it is needed.
I know that I too sometimes get frustrated teaching from class to class when I see a student does not understand a concept! I also enjoyed reading this article, and I liked reading about the 10 strategies for re-engaging students.
ReplyDeleteGreat article. I always find myself thinking how when we adults are in meetings all day, we take little breaks when we need them or go to the bathroom. We also hope the presenters give us a small break here or there, but we expect our kids who have more energy than us to sit and listen all day! I think we get so caught up in what we have to accomplish in a day, weeek or semester that we sometimes forget that those are real people sitting in those seats losing inerest in what we are saying.
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