The primary goal of teachers is to provide engaging lectures to their students, whether it is an offline or online class. Teachers who make their lectures engaging will make learning more interesting for their students. You can adopt some practical strategies for making engaging lectures for your students. Let us look at them one by one in this blog.
Check your students’ background knowledge
Review students’ background knowledge about the topic you teach to secure maximum student engagement in your lectures. Before starting a concept, try spending a few minutes asking questions about their understanding of that concept. If they are not aware of it much, give them a brief introduction and help them understand it better to increase their engagement. This method helps increase your student’s interest in that topic, and your students will interact with you more while teaching.
Ask the opinion of your students
Seeking your students’ opinions will make them engaged with your lectures. Don’t forget to ask for opinions from your students on your teaching methods, concepts, and more. It helps to know more about their interests in a topic you teach. Most students don’t find it comfortable speaking about their learning interests to a teacher voluntarily. Such students will feel more comfortable sharing their opinions when you spend a few minutes asking every student about their views and opinions. By doing so, you can achieve maximum student engagement.
Let them work
Yes, you heard it right. Let your students work themselves on something and make them feel responsible. For example, ask your students to prepare a summary of a concept and let them present it to everyone before starting a lecture. It makes them work themselves and improves their interest. In addition, allowing your students show their work makes them feel they have a friendly atmosphere in their classroom and increases their engagement in learning.
Motivate team works
Encouraging teamwork among your students will increase collaboration. Making them discuss a topic or work on classroom activities as a team will increase their understanding and improves engagement. Having addressed a topic with their peers, students will feel more confident expressing their thoughts while teaching. Motivating your students to work as a team will make them interact well with their peers and improves their communication skills.
Give intermittent breaks
Reports show that children cannot focus more when teaching for a long time. Giving them intermittent breaks helps them to pay attention without getting distracted. Taking breaks in fun conversations, playing games, five minutes of meditation, etc., will help them get refreshed. Students who remain active for a long time can actively participate in your teaching and show more learning engagement. So always make sure whether you are students are not feeling bored or exhausted to have them engaged in your lectures for longer hours.
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Use technology
Using technologies inside your classroom will make learning more interesting for your students. After the pandemic, almost every teacher has experience working with educational tools. Students will find it fun when you incorporate innovations in learning. For example, instead of using only the blackboard, try using presentations with pictures and videos to demonstrate concepts, AR/VR gaming techniques in education, visual aids, etc., to make your lecture more engaging.
Connect your lecture to the real world
Teachers who make their teaching more relatable to the real world are excellent at engaging their students. Instead of teaching conceptually, always try to use a practical approach to grab their focus. Try to connect your lectures to real-world applications as much as possible.
For example, if you are teaching a concept from a subject, use real-world examples and analogies and explain how this concept is going to be helpful in the real world. Students who know the purpose of their learning will never find it boring and give maximum engagement to your lectures.
Provide notes or recorded lectures
To make your students listen attentively without distractions, spend some time providing lecture notes separately or give them your recorded lectures. Some students will lose their focus on lectures because of writing notes. Such situations can be avoided by providing them with letters or recorded lectures. If a student doesn’t understand your lecture at first, they can replay your recorded lecture many times and grab it better. This method will eventually increase every student’s engagement in your lecture.
To wrap up
Providing engaging lectures for your students is essential to make them interested in learning and have a successful future in their life. Teaching your students with utmost engagement is effective when adopting the strategies mentioned above.
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