How Students Learn
When I was a student I learned best by doing hands on
activities. I did not learn well by reading out of a book or hearing
speeches/lectures from teachers because I found them boring and hard to focus
on. By doing hands on activities I was engaged in what we were learning about
so it was easy for me to concentrate on that topic.
I think this will affect me as a
teacher by not giving so many speeches and assigning a lot of extra reading and
when I do these things I will try to find a way to make them exciting or have
an activity or something to do during to go along with it so I keep the
students attention. I will have lots of hands on engaging activities for my
students to keep them interested and excited to learn.
In a way I think that rewards are
needed but not directly as a “you do this task and I will give you or you will
earn this” type of reward. I think that humans need goals as motivation for
themselves, but not so much rewards. If you set goals you have the personal
motivation to do whatever it takes to accomplish them and the sense of
accomplishment and success when you do so is your reward. In a way I see that
as a big enough reward to motivate myself but everyone is different and some of
my students in the future will think otherwise.
