Friday, September 30, 2011

Why do students get bored studying?

5 Factors Which Demotivate Students 1. Boring teacher. One of the biggest factors students get bored in studying is because of an ineffective teacher. A teacher who does not prepare his/her lesson plans and don't care about what happens to his or her students will not be able to motivate them. 2. Inappropriate curriculum subjects. Subjects which are unrelated to the course being taken by a student will surely make him/her feel that what he/she is doing is a big waste of time. 3. Being in a class that doesn't fit his/her personality. A student...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What is the difference between approaches, methods and techniques?

When I was an education student, I often had problems in differentiating teaching approach from teaching methods and teaching techniques. For me, it sounded all the same. Which is why now I am up to the task of trying to describe these three in simple terms which will not be difficult to understand and giving examples of situations to characterize their differences. For the purpose of simplifying this article, we assume that strategy and technique are one and the same. First we define what a Teaching Approach is. A teaching approach is...