tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post6712575710042899413..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: How to engage students - advice from the experts!Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-28409924454164465392009-10-05T08:47:26.415+13:002009-10-05T08:47:26.415+13:00Students who are not skilled at learning for thems...Students who are not skilled at learning for themselves, in fact all learners, need a supportive and encouraging environment. They need to be exposed to learning that appeals to them - that they 'see the point in' ,and they need to be helped to develop any missing skills so they can achieve reasonably good work. An important part in all this is a postive relationship of mutual respect between the learner and the teacher. As students see their efforts being rewarded they will be become more independent and self motivated. Very few ,I guess, will ever become totally independent.We all need a supportive environment. And it will take time to turn around students who have been taught not to learn for themselves.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-61440316660406920082009-10-05T04:12:26.296+13:002009-10-05T04:12:26.296+13:00my question would be how can we inspire students s...my question would be how can we inspire students so they become engage in participating in being contributor of their own learning. Student when ask wants to do things and seem interested but at the moment of making it happen if not constantly being pushed and have an adult engaging them they do not show/have internal motivation to follow their desision. Can someone share any ideas..<br />thanks..gUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367703159839705538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-22445063656336621052007-10-27T15:01:00.000+13:002007-10-27T15:01:00.000+13:00I sure agree with you. I do appreciate that many s...I sure agree with you. I do appreciate that many students come to school with a considerable learning disadvantage but if teachers placed their focus on the recovery of a sense of awe and wonder those young students could be re-connected to their own sense of curiosity.<BR/><BR/>And if the teachers placed their emphasis on helping students make sense of their own lived experience and were open to environmental experiences students wouldn't become disengaged. In such classrooms the curriculum 'emerges' fron the questions and concerns of the learners themselves.<BR/><BR/>As Jerome Bruner wisely wrote many years ago , ' Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation'.<BR/><BR/>'Learnacy' should come before a narrow focus on literacy and numerarcy.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-40077242572186466952007-10-25T18:54:00.000+13:002007-10-25T18:54:00.000+13:00I find it hard to accept that humans, who are born...I find it hard to accept that humans, who are born with brains programmed to learn, can become 'disengaged' and leave school with little to show for their time. 'Compulsory mis-education' it seems! 'Turning off' learning comes easy to some teachers - dysfunctional teachers and schools are the problem. The 'disengagement' increases as the children grow older.<BR/><BR/>Your 'blog' indicates answers to the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com