It doesn't matter if you are in church, school, a conference or just visiting over lunch, if you can link new information to a story or some set of interesting knowledge to the listener I think you will have success. Learning takes place when new knowledge has character to back it up. It is always more fun for the learner to have some sort of interest invested into the learning.
As trainers/teachers we need to keep this in mind when presenting new information. While we may find that what we say is extremely important, the learner doesn't see it that way unless you have reeled them in with some sort of clincher.
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I like what you say about how instructors will often mistakenly think
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a little bit of pride, but I think it's more likely that we just don't
think about it. The "clincher" is really important. The instructor
needs to build a way for students to be intrinsically motivated.
Everything I say is extremely important (remember that!). My students, on the other hand, may have a different opinion. There are days that my students are looking at me with glazed eyes and perhaps a little drool trickling out of their mouth, obviously what I am saying then isn't that important to them. I totally agree that it is the teacher's job to grab our students' attention that will insure they remember the topic. The days that I can totally tell my students don't give a hoot what I'm saying, I should make them want to know what I'm saying by giving them something they can relate to!
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