- Being energetic in your teaching is a motivating factor in itself; adding energy to the ideas you want to convey will further enhance learning and commitment to the ideas.
- the students who teach each other will learn better than if they were learning alone.
- Work can be fun; it should be fun!
- A feeling of accomplishment and success will help motivate students to go forward, even through very difficult material.
- Teachers should strive to make learning always at least mentally active and perhaps often physically active as well. The students should be responsible for producing something, rather than just sitting passively, soaking up the lecture.
- Connect ideas to pictures or to visual images in the imagination (that is, use concrete analogies whenever possible).
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2 comentários:
- At 13 de novembro de 2008 às 13:41 Ditza Graça said...
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Completely! The part I like most is: "Work can be fun; it should be fun". That's exactly what I keep telling my students.
- At 14 de novembro de 2008 às 16:06 Sandra said...
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In fact it´s very important to use as much as energy, innovating strategies and different materials when teaching English. If we want our students to have fun, they must be given the possibility to exchange their opinions and ideas during the lessons.