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Motivating students
Dr Pat TissingtonAssociate DeanAston Business SchoolReader in Management
Dr Pat TissingtonAssociate DeanAston Business SchoolReader in Management
How do you get students to:
Come to lectures?
Pay attention and (ideally) take an active role in the lecture?
Do the reading?
Not have essay crises?
What have you found trouble with?
Make them exciting (to you at the very least!)
Be sneaky
Play music
Keep to time
Tell them “secrets”
Allow time afterwards to answer questions
Smile!
Come to lectures
Keep it brisk
Use examples for EVERYTHING
Use film clips
Randomly give out sweets
Use discussions and/or SMS
Pay attention
Explain your expectations at the start
Set it clearly ahead of the lecture
Remind them (email/SMS)
Make it as short as possible
Make it relevant (preferably to the exam too)
Have discussions about the text at the start of every session
Do the reading
Prompt every week
Build up the essay plan
Don’t worry about spoonfeeding
Give them the resources they need
Don’t expect them to work on end of term essays early unless you badger constantly
Not have essay crises
What the the difficult topics to gain and retain interest?
Why are they difficult?
What do students want?
Do you always give it to them?
Are students customers?
Which lectures did you find exciting?
Discussion
Dr Pat TissingtonAssociate DeanAston Business SchoolReader in Management
Dr Pat TissingtonAssociate DeanAston Business SchoolReader in Management