3477. On Motivating Free Students


Who is the learner who succeeds? I’d say the one who really, really wants to learn. 

So we can try our students would really wish to learn. However, they should be free. So we can tell them things that make them wish to freely learn. 

In that way our students would reckon they do want to learn. That kind of learner – the one who actually wishes to learn – would not put all the burden upon the teacher’s back to carry it, but otherwise he will put the means to progress at his learning process, also on his own, without the teacher. 

It’s what we call autonomous learners: they are practical and pragmatic, and invest a nice effort on learning. 

And how can we achieve to get that kind of willing students? Well, you may know that a teacher with enthusiasm can accomplish to pass on that enthusiasm to his learners. Over time. It’s not something you get on a single day. 

As well some teachers encourage their students to keep a diary of their learning processes: What they feel it’s going okay, their frustrations, excitement and disillusions, positive points and negative ones, gray days and bright ones, also regular days – not gray and not too brilliant either... 

And from time to time they can go back to revise what they wrote, and thus get an interesting view of their learning process. It’s not essential they write every single day. 

With THEIR permission you can pick their diaries or journals, and have a look at them: you’ll learn a lot about your kids. You’ll have told them you were going to pick their journals, before they actually start them. 

All this post is based on the ideas explained by H. D. Brown. Plus some movie seen by me about a teacher that had problems with her students but ultimately accomplished some nice teaching. Have a nice day. / Photo from: Reading Rockets

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