As an instructor, offering students learning techniques that will assist them in learning content for application must be delivered. Developing information retention strategies that will make memory retention easier is a must.
Get to know your students so you can connect and identify if they're struggling.
How to encourage students to set clearly defined goals, expectations, and rules. Also, how to develop meaningful and respectful relationships with students so they can set achievable goals.
Be the excitment in the classroom, the motivator. Be the expert but also not the one who knows every answer.
The more students' needs and expectations are met, the more they are motivated to learn
Motivating your students relies heavily on knowing what motivates them. Building rapport and engaging students is foundational to maintaining their drive to succeed.
To be encouraging, relating course content to experiential examples, and allowing students to use personal experiences as points of reference helps further the students buy-in and motivation for doing well in the class.
This was one of my favorite modules. Discussing the importance of empathy that requires us to meet the needs and expectations of our students. Empathy involves the human factor and more importantly flexibility. Modify our teaching preferences to include strategies that are acceptable to the students is priceless. Motivation through retention, reinforcement and transference sections were some of the best content that will be very useful in day to day instructions. It is important to know your content, students, never humiliate, transcend the message, be believable....these are the characteristics of a great teacher!
In this module I have learned that there are many steps in being able to motivate the students. One of the important steps is to show them your own enthusiasm towards and knowledge of the material. Finding ways to be able to motivate the students by using their own knowledge of the material due to life experiences. Having them to be able to mentor/assist other students that maybe struggling with the material will help both the mentor and the mentee.
Motivation to give them energy towards their passion to learn what they are in school for.!
To be prepared and show interest in what you’re teaching. Also, to be excited which will intern get the students excited.
I think that empathy is one of our most important attributes as faculty.
Motivating the students can be the key to their success
From this module, I have learned the importance of continuing to motivate students in order to improve their likelihood of success in their career program.
Getting to know your students is very important to be able to gain report with them and build forms of communication and relatability in the classroom setting.
Life experiences serve as powerful learning supports. Give students opportunities to use personal experiences to acquire new knowledge, using both episodic and semantic memory. By giving examples from experience students are able to retain a higher percentage of content and find ways to apply it. Transfer of learning is based on using real world application and practice to move knowledge to working memory. The 4 cornerstones that can be used by instructors to motivate and inspire are: sharing expertise/model industry expectation, have and express empathy and give students reasonable amounts of work that focus on the objectives, enthusiasm for the subject/career, and to be very clear in expectation/well prepared and able to think on your feet or respond appropriately. Feedback should be frequent.
excitement and passion in my classroom with an open mind for learning
One of my previous public speaking mentor gave me the advice "Know your audience". This is why: So you can relate to them and make the message meaningful and relatable, which leads to recall and integration. This is a great application of the principle. Good resonant lesson.
students need for teachers to show empathy because they are all coming from all types of backgrounds. they need strong support from faculty because we may be their only source of support.
Instructors have to have a grasp on what motivates their students at the core of their purpose as well as to stay enrolled in the program. Before any instructor is going to be successful in appealing to their student’s motivation, the instructor has to demonstrate their own motivation. This motivation should focus on their own enthusiasm for their being a leader and the facilitator of the course, class, and content. For an instructor to achieve retention it is necessary to apply motivational techniques that inspire learning the information and the skills the student originally sought to achieve.
Too often students lose sight of why they committed to what has become a strenuous and tedious course of study. The stress of such a commitment be it professional, social and or economic can suppress motivation to the degree of a student becoming depressed. An instructor must have keen instincts to read the emotional cues to not only allow the student to avoid such a crisis, but to more importantly contain this so it does not spread throughout the entire class. This perception does not happen by reading a couple of paragraphs, it is an instinct that is built on an ability to be empathetic as well as sympathetic to a student’s inner-feelings, the most of which drive motivation.
