Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Topic: Motivation to Learn.

10-second review: Profile of eighteenth-century Mennonite school master Christopher Dock reveals that his methods were strikingly modern. He saw the need to motivate students to learn rather than to expect motivation and emphasized treating students as individuals.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (January 20, 1996), CC6.

Comment: I wonder how many teachers today still expect students to come to class motivated, teach to the students who are, and ascribe student failure to “laziness”? RayS.

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