3673. Learning to Learn in the Classroom

 Is motivation in the classroom important for our students? Yep, it is indeed, but there are other crucial factors, as you may know. 

For sure the lesson cannot be boring and our students would get drowsy like sheep, but also we have to consider other points so as to have efficient lessons. 

I say it because when a student – either a kid or an adult – gets so involved and plunged into learning about some issue, well then that student may become an expert at that topic, and for him or her it may be that interesting. 

I think we have to help our dear students create and make up working habits. Then, it’s more likely they will like the school subject we teach. 

Schools are not amusement parks, as Spanish teacher, philosopher and pedagogue Gregorio Luri puts. 

Our subject and its presentation in class must be interesting, competent, and professional, yet we ought not to seek motivation as the most important point in class. 

I have met teachers that with their commitment in and out of the classroom achieved their students be involved on learning that subject they taught. 

Motivation itself cannot be the king element in class. There are other crucial points: working habits, routines, creativity from the teacher, some capability of getting his or her students hooked by the subject, educating in freedom and responsibility, honesty, hard working, generosity, solidarity, etcetera. 

A lot is said on motivation sometimes, but you as a learner need to persevere and be constant if you wish to achieve something great. What I mean, you know, is the importance of effort and struggle in class. No effort, no progress, or in positive terms, when you strive to learn something, you’ll likely learn a lot about that subject. 

Furthermore our students have to learn how to study from a book – by the way more and more people and educators now insist on the point that printed books may be better than being too hooked on screens. 

Some schools and centers have study halls, where students spend a lot of hours studying from books. It’s also my experience when I was a student myself: I can remember the many hours I spent in a study room with other students, and the great amount we could learn. Have a nice day.