How to Keep Students Interested in Learning

Keeping Students Interested in Learning

Keeping students actively involved in learning can be a challenge. Sadly, your students may not love  your subject area as much as you do. The following are a few strategies that you can use to help motivate your students to keep learning. 

Relevance

No matter what you teach, you will need to make it relevant to your students. Use "real world" examples. If you are a teach math teacher, teach your students how to balance their check books, how to make a family budget, how to look at unit prices at the grocery store. Help your students understand how to invest, how to manage money, and the importance of saving. Use fun games that teach the importance of math.  If you teach English, you can teach your students how to compose resumes, essays, analysis papers, and letter writing.

Blogging

Your students love to voice their opinion. Let them. Design a class blog. On this blog, students can share ideas and important information that they have learned in class. They can also post their poems, essays, research papers, and school related pictures.

Outdoor activities

Get those students outside. Let them explore nature. How? If you teach art, let them paint pictures of nature. If you teach English, you can have them compose poems about nature. You can have them write comparison/contrast essays about the different types of flowers, seasons, or other objects you find outside. If you teach math, let them go outside and measure the distance from one building to the next. If you are a science teacher, the great outdoors offers a wealth of activities that you can use.

Power point presentations

Let your students do power point presentations. They love to work with technology, so let them. Have them design a power point presentation that is relevant to your subject area. Be sure to provide guidelines.

Use different ways to motivate your students to learn. Try the above activities.