Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students

By Neil Mars

Are you a college student struggling to find motivation and interest in your studies? Do you feel like the educational system is outdated and fails to meet your needs?

Look no further than "Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students." This book offers a fresh perspective on the educational system and provides invaluable insights into how teachers can connect with and inspire their students.

In today's rapidly changing world, the way we learn and interact has evolved, but the educational system remains stagnant. Students, like yourself, are disengaged and lacking motivation. It's time to break free from the traditional teaching methods and explore new strategies that truly resonate with modern students.

Drawing from studies on children with Attention Deficit Disorder, this book highlights the crucial role emotions play in cognitive development and information assimilation. Why rely on medication when we can harness the power of emotions to ignite a passion for learning? It's time for the educational system to adapt and embrace these findings.

This book delves into the flaws of the current educational system and challenges the status quo. It exposes the mismatch between what our children and young adults need to learn and the outdated ideals the system promotes. Teachers and students face discrimination and ridicule when they resist conforming to this flawed model. It's time for a change.

"Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students" offers practical solutions and methods for teachers to create a supportive and engaging learning environment. It advocates for educators who go beyond simply instructing students to open a textbook and replicate answers. True teaching involves building relationships, answering emails, and sharing perspectives about life.

By highlighting the importance of connection and empathy, this book empowers teachers to inspire their students on a deeper level. The author understands the challenges educators face in today's digital age, where a single moment captured on camera can tarnish a career. But this book also emphasizes the immense impact teachers can have when they prioritize their students' well-being and growth.

The educational system needs a paradigm shift, and "Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students" is here to guide you through that transformation. It challenges the notion that degrees define a teacher's qualifications, emphasizing the need for true passion and dedication in the classroom. Quality teaching goes beyond academic credentials and focuses on creating future leaders who can contribute to a better world.

This book calls upon teachers to lead by example, showcasing an ideal world based on mutual respect, human rights, and peace. It urges educators to cultivate critical thinking, efficient analysis of information, and creativity. The ultimate goal is to foster a positive and humanitarian approach that transcends borders, nationalities, and cultures.

If you're ready for a revolution in education, "Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students" is your guide. Discover how to connect with modern students, reignite their passion for learning, and drive meaningful change in the classroom. Take the first step towards creating a world where education is not just a reflection of society but a vehicle for its progress.

Take action now! Unlock your potential as an empowered student or educator. Buy "Teaching Strategies to Motivate College Students" and embark on a transformative journey towards a brighter future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 22 Lions
• Release date: Aug 27, 2021

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Introduction

The world is changing rapidly, as well as the way we think and live. Meanwhile, while changes occur in the way we read, communicate and interact, absolutely nothing evolved regarding the educational system. Students are showing much less interest and motivation to learn nowadays, and we tend to attribute such phenomenon to some kind of mental disorder or laziness, not realizing that both emotional and physical reactions reflect a new social tendency.

Studies applied on children with Attention Deficit Disorder have shown that emotions, particularly associated with metacognitive abilities, have a very important role in helping them develop cognitive patterns and assimilate information, so why do we insist in medication? But more importantly, why doesn’t the educational system changes? This system has been created to promote a governmental ideal for our society, therefore, everything that is implied for our children and young adults to learn matches this paradigm. Those that resist fitting such model will not be praised as educational movies tend to show, but rather ridiculed, discriminated and rejected. This applies to both teachers and students, in which one fears being differentiated by grades and the other fears being differentiated by pears and lose a job.

Not much do we really have to say about teaching methodology and ideals, apart from the fact that, all the theories about it, are promoted but never applied, not even by those promoting them. Not many Teachers are able to recognize they are failing or acknowledge it without a high dose of frustration. More dramatic yet, is to notice the huge amount of educational professionals that actually believe they are teaching whatsoever. Schools and Universities create a vast and deep illusion in which there are those believing they are learning and those believing they are teaching. As a matter of fact, anyone can be a teacher, but not many teachers can admit such thing. If all you do is request that a student