Home School Lesson Plans Made Easy - The Secrets of Learning - Focus your attention

Two secret: Focus on the Ideal

You can get more of what you focus.

For all classes of kindergarten was one, it is clear that what we focus on strengthening. If you tell someone to stop working, you'll be repeated over and over again. If you tell a child a toy to stay away from other children who are immediately attracted to them. If you stop to talk to ask a girl, you say that about most of the girls and boys. Whatever youNote, you will see it again and again. Although this is obviously in a nursery, it exists everywhere, we are not aware of May.

Focus on the positive.

If you sit quietly and watch a student say something about how to start to spell the other students to find their seats. If you stop at a lanky student, please make a comment on another student sits on the right. If you stop daydreaming your class, commentStudent who is the faithful reading. Change your attention from the stressful, negative things, the ideal, the positive things. It takes commitment, but it's worth it. Even teachers of young people are taught to swim three positive comments before giving a little 'constructive criticism. Not only will you see a change in behavior, but will also improve the reputation and morale of the class.

Be specific with your feedback.

As is sometimes the most positive, but be surespecific with your comments. How to say "good job" or "excellent work" can be applied to all students in each class and may not be at home with your student ID card. You can see the clear line in the design of an art student. You can comment on how well a student uses prepositional phrases and conjunctions in a story about an evergreen forest. You can take that a player makes a pitch ball with the other foot when throwing. This is the kind of specific feedback that will really helpStudent. Knowing exactly what to do to maintain a pupil will be encouraged. Knowing exactly how to fix something, or will improve a student can to help. To be positive and real is a sign of a great master.

Teaching students to control themselves.

Although it is good to have students come to you guidance and encouragement feels, it feels even better to teach independence. If you teach students to control themselves, give them the opportunity to develop their own learning. You canTo check whether a word is a noun, by itself, "is the phrase" ______'?" you can see if you really pulled back by A student may also learn important errors made when writing. Test circulation by the responses were a key. Feedback is most effective when they have specific and immediate (or as soon as possible). And 'too powerful when it comes from within. Empower students by giving them the ability to understand and maketheir own learning.

Present their achievements.

Students love to see. Put the work on the refrigerator is a way to say "good job". The more students feel their work is noticed by others, they feel better about their performance. Posting a bulletin board can work to see other work. The spread of news about your students a sense of their community. Giving you the chance to teach someone else to them a sense of value. Thinking about the student's workAs a seed. If done in a hack, hidden in a desk, not grow. Rental of their work are in the eyes of people who believe in and help support a student to grow into a fascinating world. When working with students, giving them the chance to be great.