When it comes to education – no matter what format you deliver things in or what style of education it is that you’re focusing on – you are going to find that it’s essential to be engaging. This can apply whether you’re a teacher of younger children, graduates, coach in a commercial or corporate environment, teach online, or anything in between. Engagement really matters. But what is it about a teaching style or your methods of teaching that make things more engaging? Well, in this blog post, we’re going to find out.
The Teaching Environment
So first of all, we have to take a look at the teaching environment itself. If you work in a physical teaching environment, it’s very important to take a look at the space that you’re teaching in. The way that it’s designed and decorated can really contribute to how the students engage and focus. It might be that you need specific furniture and school blinds, or that you need to up the decor. It could be that having engaging and motivating artwork is what you need.
Setting the Tone
Whether you do work in an educational setting or not, another really key thing that you’re going to need to focus on is the tone that you’re setting. You need to be the motivating factor. You’ll find that this is often going to be the one thing that engages your student or doesn’t. It’s important for you to be passionate about what you’re teaching so that your students can be too. This will often make a huge difference in success or failure.
Influencing Your Students
But we also need to acknowledge that you’re going to want to positively influence your students too. But this often has to be from a point of view of infecting them with the right knowledge and being a motivational source for learning. There is a fine line here, however – because you have to make sure that you’re not influencing from a control perspective. Instead, it needs to be an engaging influence that allows them to take on what they need to and look at the topic in new ways.
Being Heard
You also need to make sure that you’re being heard too. Here, it could be in the form of knowing how to communicate or what language to use so that your students can relate to you. It really helps to know your audience well and how they like to learn so that you’re able to educate in teach in the best ways possible. But you can adapt and play around with this over time.
Bring in Various Sources
Finally, you may find that you benefit from bringing in different sources to help you get the message across too. This could be in the form of different types of media and interactive elements or even bringing in other teachers to share their insights too. It can help to bring in different perspectives.
