Catching the Attention Of Our Students

In the first class for this week we were talking about some things that we as teacher could use in our classes for catching the attention of children. We were sharing some material in order to reach that objective.

Yaneth shared a “Spinning Wheel”. In my personal opinion a spinning wheel can be used at any level of learning and not only for children. There are many different ways of how to use it. We can stick some question in order to see how much the child had learnt in the class. Yan said that making that spinning wheel is not too difficult, and we saw that it is an interesting activity for catching everybody’s attention. Also we talk about puppets. I brought some ideas for this kind of material. So, I made two puppets with socks. I used wool in order to give to the sock hair. Also I pasted two little glass eyes. We know that kind of puppets are cheap and easy to make. Also there are sticks puppets that are easier to make. With puppets children can play, they can be in a role, they can act with the puppet and they will learn playing with them.

We talked about molding clay. I think that molding clay can be used for filling images. There are a lot of different colors of molding clay that students can use for expressing themselves in this activity.

Also we can make musical instrument and give a rhythm to our classes. I did not know how to make a music instrument, but my classmates and teacher told us how to make them. You can fill some cans of soda with sand or rocks. They are easy to make.

Flipcharts for telling stories are a good way to catch students’ attention because while we are speaking they are watching images related with the story. So. They can identify the principal idea of what teacher are saying and can understand better the story.

In conclusion, if we want to be good teachers we need to use this methods for catching the attention of our students. When students are comfortable with the activities that teachers develop in classes they learn better because they are enjoying what they are doing. They are having fun and learning.