This unit was based on how teachers can affect a student's motivation by how he or she presents the lessons. As we know, the students have to be motivated if they want to have a better chance of learning, and the teacher could play a major role in that. For example, we can have a highly motivated student who is being taught by an extremely boring teacher, as a consequence the student's motivation can be affected by this. How could this be?
It's believed that there are three stages of a presentation that must be accomplished by the teacher, which are the following:
1. Attention: The title pretty much explains it, the first objective is for the teacher to grab the student's attention. The teacher has to make sure that they are concentrated only on them and not goofing off or wandering around. There are various strategies to achieve this, but I won't get into much detail.
2. Perception: In this stage, the student processes the information that the teacher is giving, the teacher has to make sure he repeats the information and gives it out in a way to make it comprehensible to the students.
3. Understanding: This final stage is one of the most important in which the contents that the teacher handed out must be related to the student's previous knowledge. It's where we make sure that the student has effectively learned the content and it just hasn't come in through one ear and out the other.
Analyzing these steps I remembered a presentation I did in General Linguistics last semester in which unconsciously, these three steps were present. With my partner we grabbed the attention of our students by hitting each other with our notebooks, then we achieved perception by repeating the information we had just given briefly, and we checked understanding by giving the students a few questions based on the sketch.
This will really help me in my teaching future....present because I can try to apply these three steps to my lessons, it won't be easy but I love challenges.
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