If students are motivated
to learn, an instructor's efforts will be wasted. An instructor
can prepare students to learn and motivated them by:
Set a friendly and open atmosphere.
Set an appropriate level of concern and stress in the classroom.
High level stress can become a barrier to learning.
Set an appropriate level of difficulty. Challenge and reward
the students
Provide feedbaack
Provide relevance
Retention:
In order to benefit from
learning, students must retain information. The amount of retention
is directly related to how well a student learns the information
initially. Practice is the key to ensuring retention.
Reinforcement:
Reinforcement ensures that instructors
encourage appropriate behavior and performance in the classroom.
Use the following:
Positive Reinforcement ~ good reinforces "good"
behavior
Negative Reinforcement ~ bad continues until "bad"
behavior disappears
Use both positive and negative reinforcement
when trying to change behaviors and old practices.
Transference:
Transference describes
the ability to transfer or apply learning as a result of training.
Transference tends to occur when:
Learners can associate the new
information with something they already know
Learners find similarities between
the new information and something they already know
Learners have a high degree of original learning
Learners need to learn this information for a critical
reason (job, etc.)
