3574. When We Teachers Want Our Students Be Focused on Working

Everyone may agree that the teacher has to have his or her students think. Their students have so to think and think quite a lot. Lessons also have to be active. And the students have to be active, not only by doing things but also by thinking for a lot. Well, thinking, reading, studying, and doing exercises – it’s up to the specific subject. 

When both the teacher and his or her students are engaged in an activity, either by doing something or by thinking, discipline is much easier. 

The students are busy, focused and concentrated on carrying out something. 

By the way, the teacher has to provide with knowledge and contents, but also some of those knowledge and contents may be gotten by the students’ work. The teacher has a primary mission in the classroom and in the virtual online lesson, but he or she has also to make their students think, discover, find out, research, deduce and induce, infer, draw conclusions, read, and study. Little by little, okay? 

When all of that is happening in the classroom or in the online lesson, discipline and behavior management are much easier. 

The students are concerned with working and learning. 

If you’ve read so far, you may find that we’re referring to something sublime. We’re talking of thinking and the highest intellectual labor by both the teacher and the students. Thus lessons are related to something sublime: all the people in the actual or virtual classroom are engaged in the superior capabilities of man. 

If we teachers try things would occur that way, we may be doing something very formative and educative. 

Something more specific and practical? We teachers may plan our dear lessons by thinking of the activities we’re going to implement, but by thinking of our dear students in mind: what activities are more convenient and appropriate for my students now? What am I going to do for my students to do in the real or virtual classroom? 

Thus let’s think not only about what I’m going to do in the classroom as a teacher, but also what my students are going to do, okay? 

Some of the ideas were taken from José Bernardo Carrasco (2004) and from Gregorio Luri. Here we are.