Real life situations make classes more interesting
Sunday, 18 November 2007
M A Islam
One of the main reasons why students do not like to attend classes or become inattentive in classes is that they do not find pleasure and excitement in them.
Teachers can make the classes interesting by presenting examples from real life or taking students out of the classroom to the real life situations. If classes can be made pleasant and exciting in this way, it becomes easier on the part of the teachers to hold the attention of the learners.
Every week a subject teacher can take students outside the 'monotonous' classroom. They can take them to the real world. If they cannot do so, they can invite one resource person to the class at least once in every two weeks.
A geometry teacher in elementary level can take his or her students outside the classroom to show different objects in order to make them familiar with triangle, rectangle, circular etc.
An arithmetic teacher can stage drama in the class. In order to make them more comfortable with the sums of interest rate, a student can act as the customer relations officer of a bank and another student can be a customer and they can converse on interest rate issues which will be entertaining for them and for others in the class.
A Bangla teacher can take his or her students to a remote village to make them familiar with the kind of life that Jasim Uddin's 'Asmani' leads. Such visits will arouse empathy for the poor people in the young students' mind and they will understand literature better.
An English teacher can invite a native English speaker and students can converse with him or her and that way they can be at ease to converse with the native speakers. The young students will realise why they need to learn English language. They would understand that if they know the language better, there will be no obstacle in conversing with foreigners who know English.
In the books written for the students, examples taken from real life are not that sufficient. Teachers need to fill the gaps. They should deliberately collect examples and link them with lessons and present them to the students. In that way, learners will be able to remember the topics better. When they will learn how to link their lessons with real life, they can imagine better and they will remember better what they have learned.
Obviously, for making students familiar with real life, teachers themselves have to update their knowledge. They should have connection with professionals and people of different strata of the society.
It needs only a little bit of initiative on the part of the teachers and management of the institutions to take students to such educational tours or to present them with real life situations. Returns are, obviously, enormous. These students will complete their books with greater understanding and they will be able to relate their knowledge in their professional life much better.
One of the main reasons why students do not like to attend classes or become inattentive in classes is that they do not find pleasure and excitement in them.
Teachers can make the classes interesting by presenting examples from real life or taking students out of the classroom to the real life situations. If classes can be made pleasant and exciting in this way, it becomes easier on the part of the teachers to hold the attention of the learners.
Every week a subject teacher can take students outside the 'monotonous' classroom. They can take them to the real world. If they cannot do so, they can invite one resource person to the class at least once in every two weeks.
A geometry teacher in elementary level can take his or her students outside the classroom to show different objects in order to make them familiar with triangle, rectangle, circular etc.
An arithmetic teacher can stage drama in the class. In order to make them more comfortable with the sums of interest rate, a student can act as the customer relations officer of a bank and another student can be a customer and they can converse on interest rate issues which will be entertaining for them and for others in the class.
A Bangla teacher can take his or her students to a remote village to make them familiar with the kind of life that Jasim Uddin's 'Asmani' leads. Such visits will arouse empathy for the poor people in the young students' mind and they will understand literature better.
An English teacher can invite a native English speaker and students can converse with him or her and that way they can be at ease to converse with the native speakers. The young students will realise why they need to learn English language. They would understand that if they know the language better, there will be no obstacle in conversing with foreigners who know English.
In the books written for the students, examples taken from real life are not that sufficient. Teachers need to fill the gaps. They should deliberately collect examples and link them with lessons and present them to the students. In that way, learners will be able to remember the topics better. When they will learn how to link their lessons with real life, they can imagine better and they will remember better what they have learned.
Obviously, for making students familiar with real life, teachers themselves have to update their knowledge. They should have connection with professionals and people of different strata of the society.
It needs only a little bit of initiative on the part of the teachers and management of the institutions to take students to such educational tours or to present them with real life situations. Returns are, obviously, enormous. These students will complete their books with greater understanding and they will be able to relate their knowledge in their professional life much better.