Thoughts on Teaching: Meaningful Teaching Activities
Have you noticed that the longer you talk, the more the kids’ attention wanders? People’s brains stay sharply focused only for short periods… I think I’ve read figures of between 10 and 20 minutes for average kids. But of course, the more interested you are in a subjects, the better able you are to sustain attention. The key to education then is transforming students from passive receivers of information to...