Hi…

I hope you enjoyed the article I posted a couple of weeks ago by Rob Plevin…

In the article, Rob discusses the importance of getting students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons. Rob believes (and I’m sure we all agree) that when students come into your classroom with a positive attitude they are much easier to manage and teach.

Well…here are some specific ideas from Rob Plevin for getting students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons:

* Cooperative learning activities – get students working together so that their needs for attention and support are naturally met – you then become free to give assistance when it is required rather than when it is demanded.

* Attention grabbing starters – Get them interested from the start and the rest of the lesson has a fair chance of success. If you don’t manage to do this, you’re fighting a losing battle for the entire lesson.

* Learning games – when learning is fun, it is more enjoyable and memorable.

* Relevant subject content – relevant to THEIR lives

* Ability-appropriate tasks – too hard and they’ll be frustrated, too easy and they’ll be bored

* Music – great for setting the mood in a lesson but also for marking transitions and ‘types’ of activity. Use upbeat or comedy theme music to hurry students through physical tasks and relaxing music when you want them to think. Use their favorite music as an occasional class reward for good effort.

* Energizers and brain-breaks, and novel activities – Physical energizers can get the group back on task and re-focused.

* Anecdotes and analogies – students respond so well to analogies and quirky stories. It gives them an instant way of connecting to new information.

* Role plays – If you aren’t using role play I suggest you do it NOW. Your most challenging students love role play when it is presented in the right way. This one activity can have your students queuing at the door to get in every lesson. “Sir, can we do role play again please?”

* Humor breaks – It goes without saying, we need humor, we need to laugh. But are you actively planning dedicated humor time into your lessons? If you do, your students will thank you for it and your lessons will be the talk of the school.

If you want more ideas on how to get students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons then you must check out Rob Plevin’s lesson improvement program known as Needs-Focused Lessons.

I can’t recommend Rob’s Needs-Focused Lessons highly enough and you can still get started for just $1.

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