This is a very good point. I should add to my list after piquing a student's interested, you need to keep them interested. And that is accomplished if the student reaches many little milestones successfully. When a student has trouble, struggles to overcome it, and succeeds--that is a huge motivator, not to mention an excellent lesson in it's own right about the importance of determination.
-Winston On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Radenski, Atanas wrote: > 2. Even when students study because they are required to, students are > still *willing and ready to learn*. Getting them excited about the > subject matter helps. However, what is crucial to keep them going is > *success in what they are doing*. Who likes to fail? Normally > nobody. We > all like to succeed in what we are doing, no matter what we are doing. > Thus, our students need to be given a chance to succeed. > > Making it through and succeeding is what really makes people > excited. "I > made it! I made it!" What can be more motivational than this > feeling? It > does not matter that much what exactly you are doing, what matters is > that you succeed rather than fail. Do you like failing? Most people > hate > to fail. Students hate to fail - not necessarily in terms of grades > (in > a narrow sense) but in managing required activities in general. ______________________________________________________ winston wolff - (646) 827-2242 - http://www.stratolab.com learning by creating - video game courses for kids in new york _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
