Tips to Increase the Interest in class room study
Chirjot Kaur,Lecturer,GJIMT
In this high tech world, where life is bombarded with thousand of stimulations one community which is worst affected is that of students. Student life is the most happening stage in ones’ life. It forms the foundation years and chalks out our career path. In earlier times there was dearth of recreational activities and students were not that tech savvy. Today there is altogether different scenario it is difficult to catch hold of the attention of students. The new-era student has grown very smart they want value education. Knowledge and experience is just one area but teachers have to prove their credentials in all fields to keep the students engaged and active.
1. Student engagement activities: The class room study can be made more effective by making it more versatile. Use of audiovisual aids, demonstrations, practice by doing, reading, real life example, role modeling, business games, and teach other method can be used.
2. Modified learning techniques: Students get bored if there is one-way communication and lack of feedback. Involvement of students in classroom study will add spice and earn their interest in pedagogy. Ask students questions that probe their understanding, give initial answer, then discuss the question in small groups, report revised answer, and discuss reasoning. Engage students in debates, asking them to give reasons for their positions Play devil’s advocate - have students discuss what the opposite outcome would mean.
3. Enhancing Emotional Involvement: Use humor, Challenge students to answer questions which are tricky. Use brain teachers to evoke varied responses from them.
4. Classroom Assessment Techniques: Classroom assessment technique will be kind of feedback technique for both students and the teacher. Some of the feedback techniques that can be used are: Focused Listing or Brainstorming, Teacher’s feedback form, Minute Paper or One Sentence Summary and (who, what, why, when, where, how) technique which is also known as 5Wand 1H technique, Student-Generated Test Questions, Class Modeling, or Role-playing.
5. High performance team learning: Students learn more from each other when they combine their resources and have common goal. Team formations an effective strategy used for class room learning. Engage them in group activities and assign a leader who will guide them at time also give then situations where leaders may emerge by themselves.. Teachers can set up team learning environment and can motivate students by rewarding the high performance team.
6. Use of Case Studies in the Classroom: Some students learn faster by logic and reasoning for them case study will be the right approach. The use of case studies can therefore be a very effective classroom technique. A major advantage of teaching with case studies is that the students are actively engaged in figuring out the principles by abstracting from the examples.
For example you are teaching corporate social responsibility take the case study of Satyam fiasco. Ask them to find the role of Social responsibility that could have prevented this whole disaster. Then when they have described the whole situation give the meaning, advantages and application of this phenomenon. IT will be a bottom up approach in teaching. This method helps in developing the following skills 1.) Analytical reasoning 2) Decision making in complex situations 3) Problem solving
4) Conceptualization. 5) Creative thinking and 6) Giving diversified solutions to case studies.
7. Teachers should portray themselves as energetic individuals: Demonstrate enthusiasm, preparedness, thoughtfulness, organization, and flexibility in your presentation and Learn students’ names early in the semester.
8. Prepare a session plan and session flow for every session: Divide lecture material into 15-min segments. Each minute will give detailed description of pedagogy to be followed (lecture/Question based discussion/Power point presentation/ Or Activity driven learning)Provide objectives or questions to work through during class, Verbally assess progress toward objectives, Organize class time into segments, spend some time in summarizing.
9. Effective lesson plan: It should focus to involve the three senses: visual, audible, and kinesthetic. Visual learning:: power point presentation, transparencies, charts, graphs, Reading instructions, work sheets, step-by-step photographs, watching a demonstration. Auditory learning: Listening to the teacher, question and answer and reinforcement, group discussion. Kinesthetic learning: Having a go to visit some industrial site, learn practical application by actually doing the job.
An ideal lesson should stimulate the students in every pathway possible, whether this is through visual, auditory or kinesthetic learning. This means using a little exposition, a little question and answer, the use of diagrams, photos and colors and finally some practical exercises and hands-on experience will keep the interest of students alive during the whole session and will ameliorate the performance of class as a whole.
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