Dec 5, 2013
Instructional Variables:
Developing Interest in Learning Activities
To develop students’ interest, this reflection is focus on introductory focus, personalization, involvement, and feedback.
Introductory
focus is focus on attracting students’ attention by linking students’
prior knowledge to the new knowledge/lesson and gives a limitation to
the students. The first step for the teacher is giving a concrete
example such as daily life conversation. Then second step is teacher
uses problem based learning by giving a problem and ask the students.
Not only give the students a real example, but teacher also has to tells
the students about the goal of the lesson and give them an expectation
of the learning. To do the step of introductory focus, the method of the
teacher has to explain the lesson from general to specific. It will
lead the students more focus and interest in learning activities.
Developing
interest in learning activities, teacher need to know the background of
the students. In personalization, teacher can relate the lesson by
relating the topic with students’ personal characteristic or their
background. The involvement of the students also will automatically
increase. By relating students’ background, it can activate students’
interaction to involve in the learning activity by their own will. The
activities that can increase students’ intrinsic interest are by using
hands-on activities such as practical activities and using open-ended
question such as discussion activity.
In
the learning process give some feedback to the students can increase
their motivation in learning. Feedback is comment or opinion toward
students’ work. It can be form as a written or spoken. There are two
kinds of feedback. First is evaluative feedback such as give a grade for
students’ summative result, give a judgment for single measurement,
give it in general way not specific feedback, and then evaluative
feedback can link to the reward or punishment. Second is instructional
feedback such as give some point for students’ improvement, use some
example in relation to students’ work, and teacher can provide some
strategies to build students motivation for moving forward.
The
ideas to start the lesson by providing the students an introductory
focus and teacher knows the personalization of each students, it can
involve students’ interest in the learning process. Moreover, if the
teacher can give a good feedback. The students will more interest and
have motivation in the learning process.
