Sunday, October 7, 2012
For myself as a student, I know that my attitude towards the instructor largely affects my learning. I become more motivated and interested in a class depending who is presenting the material and how they do it. If a teacher of mine is dry, even a subject I'm interested in can become my least favorite class and I will become more and more reluctant to attend, pay attention, or put forth any effort towards learning. Although, it is extremely necessary for students to see different teaching styles and methods throughout their education, this will help them in real life situations as well learning to deal with different types of people in the workplace and collaborating with them on tasks. Students that are intrinsically motivated whether it be because of their own goals or desire to learn obviously have less of an issue with this, they put forth 100% to do well no matter what the environment is, but students that do not have such an easy time motivating themselves struggle with changes in teachers and styles of teaching. These students are also going to have to learn to work with different types of people in order to be functioning members of society, therefore having them experience these varied educational situations will most certainly help them in achieving that.
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I agree that motivation is key when learning a foreign language. Many different students are motivated through a variety of different methods. I feel that it is important that all students have the chance to be emerged in these different methods. Being a teacher it is important to see if the students are not adapting to your method. If this is the case then the teacher should change his/her methods to better fit the class. Having gone to a big high school with over 10 Spanish teachers I can relate to the fact that switching teachers is very important not only to the student's grades but how their attitude is toward the target language
ReplyDeleteBeing introduced to different teaching methods is certainly a good life experience, but I also have had mutliple experiences when I did not like or understand a teacher's style, and then proceeded to lose interest, motivation, and my performance suffered. In this case, it can be benefitial to have one teacher whose teaching stlye does agree with your learning style, but at the same time there might be others in the class that are the opposite and they will not do well. This is why change is important, because while learning is individual, classrooms are made up of mutliple people who have multiple needs.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is important to have different teaching styles introduced to students. And although in a perfect world all teachers would be able to motivate their students no matter what technique they use, we ll know this is not the case. From an education view, I think having so many teaching styles can be a hinderance especially when teacher are ineffective. From a real world view, it's life and students will have similar situations to work though in their careers.
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