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To me, all students are like flowers who need to be handled with Care and Affection, especially a poor-minded student who also wishes to be like other shining students, but, can’t cope with them due to his/her low IQ level. Following are some measures which can be very effectively used to make a less concentrated / poor-minded student more concentrated in the classroom:
1) Always Encourage the students; even the least attempt made by them must be appreciated by the teacher to boost their morale.
2) Be their “Respected Friend” and they will open up to you.
3) Engage them in Positive Discussions; it will also provide a great opportunity for teachers to formatively assess (through observation) how well students are grasping new content and concepts.
4) Utilize Technology in the Classroom because integrating technology into the classroom is a great way to empower students to stay connected in this technological era. Technology-rich lessons have been found to keep students motivated and engaged longer. A Teacher can do this by creating web-based lessons or a WebQuest, multimedia presentations such as a video, animation, or some type of graphic, utilizing a tablet or an iPad, taking his class on a virtual field trip, participating in an online research project, or even creating a class website. Any of these technology integration strategies will have a positive impact on students’ learning.
5) Use SEL (Social-Emotional Learning ) technique in the Classroom; you can better know about it on the following link:
I myself used this technique when I was teaching in Army Public School and College, Kharian Cantt. In, I was the in-charge of class One-B in APS&C. One of my students was a real nuisance. Most teachers would have labeled him oppositional-defiant, etc. He showed poor academic results, was in the habit of stealing (even once stole money from my purse). On the surface level, nothing was right, but my heart was signaling that if I chose to be calm, persistent, caring, and kind with him, things would get better with the passage of time.
One day, I gave him an Eraser and a Toffee, and asked the whole class (to their surprise) to clap for him because he had secured4/ marks in Mathematics which was really a low-grade performance, but for that particular student it was his “BEST performance” he had ever shown & that was the day when his transformation started, A MIRACLE HAPPENED, a student who secured C-grade, worked so hard to ultimately stand among the position-holders, his shyness ended & he became an eloquent speaker; once thought to be a nuisance turned into a very bright/cooperative student who began to sit in the first row instead of the last one. It took me nearly four months to turn him around but the end result was worth it. This is how SEL can be very helpful to make a less concentrated / poor-minded student more concentrated in the classroom.
For more fruitful class, teachers have to stop making their classes boring ones, they can attract students concentrations by hands on activities, videos, power point presentations, leveled sheets, practical activities, puzzles, games, field trips more and more.
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I think we need here to add attarctive methods (Colors, Sounds, Demonstration tools, ...) just to let them focus more on topics
sometimes special mindes need to care by special treatment , therefore , gather them in groups and let them create conversations include the topic\\s that you want to focuse on. in this way you can active their minds and let them thinking.
Thank you for the invitation. I think the best way to get attention of a less concentrated poor minded student is to keep him alert always by asking questions from the subject being taught. When questions repeated asked for what has been taught it will at least make students to listen otherwise some students may be physically present and mentally absent. If it is utterly difficult to make a less concentrated student attentive, they better to give him counselling and to ask what is his real problem and preferences. One may be great genius but may not be interested in class room teaching, there are very successful talented people who were dull and lazy students and drop-outs. It is the resopnsibility of teachers to bring the best out of every student knowing their talents and prefences instead of undermining and humiliating them.
As Albert Einstein once said... Everybody Is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing That It Is Stupid.
Everyone has unique talents so instead of blaming the student it is sometimes necessary to ask ourselves why we have failed at teaching them.
Most schools and teaching systems work on the principles of repetition and indoctrination. We make students write lines over and over again and tell them what they must believe. But people now have more access to learning from the internet and libraries so they begin learning from a younger age how to think for themselves and in addition they are being empowered to take a stand when they disagree. These children grow into thinking reasoning adults who question what they are told and quickly lose interest in repetition or being give an illogical systemic answer. So rather than the sheep we were once breeding we now have many more thinking intelligent people who know how to ask why and its those people you have to find a way to engage and captivate by allowing their minds to be awakened and exploring possibilities.
So if your student is bored ask yourself if you are repeating the same drab lines over and over or if you are pushing learning boundaries with new thoughts and information for your learners. Then ask yourself if you even agree or believe in what you are teaching. If you were sitting there listening to it would it have you convinced or would you also be thinking what a load of rubbish and staring out of the window too.
I am a firm believer that there are rarely bad students only bad teachers and just sometimes people behave badly or act out of character due to other life events and those you can usually find a way to reach out to them. The most important thing is to trust, believe and expect that they can do it because people will nearly always live up to your expectations whether they are good or bad expectations.
Assalam o Alaikum, and thanks for your invitation.
According to me, if a student is poor minded or less interested in studies, that is not his/her fault.
Many steps can be taken alongwith hardwork to make a student more concentrated in the classroom.
Teacher has the responsibility to identify the individual differences in the classroom. Those who are slow learners or weak in the studies teacher should discuss with them in classroom with related concept. With the help of remedial teaching we can uplift the slow learners in main stream.
