Three weeks have come and gone so fast! And I am still having a lot of fun interacting with my two groups of teachers. This week resulted in several "aha" moments for me. For example, one student asked, can we really motivate students to learn if they are not willing to learn? That question took me back to a comment made to me by a male student early in my teaching career. He said "Miss, you can do all you want, but if I don't want to learn, I won't." And so, can we as teachers really motivate students or do we simply cajole, inspire or influence them to care enough to want to learn? Is this motivation? In my other class, I saw teachers become so enthralled with using technologies that were new to them (but not new to their students as they later found out), that their faces shone with excitement. How important it is for us as teachers to continue to experience the joys of learning and to share that joy with our students. Have a great week all!
Yes, Dr. Joyanne !
ReplyDeleteIt was such interesting class, I guess there are many things that pop in my mind during the class, Like "does technology sometimes harm our teaching effectiveness and block students from keeping connections with their natural environment"?
It made me go asking my colleagues too the same question and let them think about it.
Thank you for letting us have the chance to challenge our minds.
Dr. Joyanne , yes a teacher constitute the major role of motivating his students , it depends greatly on his own personality and knowledge also the way he treat his students using a proper teaching methods and by this i don't mean only technology but also his voice and body language with appropriate skills of communication all these methods can make him or her a model for the students to follow and accept.
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