Week 6 Objectives - The Introduction

First draft introduction


 Everyday you might work hard preparing the lesson to give a right information to students, to draw attention of them, to make a theme fun and to make your explanation excellent. All things you care about is important for effective learning in class. However you missed one of the most important factor for your class. When planning teaching for learning, our task as teachers, is to focus on the mood of learners. How do you feel today? The answer will differ; sad, happy, delightful, excited, or etc. The day depends on your mood. For example, if you fought with your spouse at this morning and you became too angry to assume that you are normal, you could not do your tasks and treat others well.  Not only your feeling has an effect on the day, but students' mood has a great effects on the class. Then, are you noticing your students' feelings? You could catch the mood of the class like depressed, cool, noisy, or calm. The effect of learning depends on the mood of students. It will be better to know the students feeling because it affects your lesson. Emotion is important in education because it drives attention, which in turn drives learning and memory. There have been a lot of researches on the mood and learning and most teachers can capture the mood of students well. Then, how can we, teachers, can use them appropriately in the class? The topic of this essay is that 'How students' various emotions affect the lesson and how teachers lead the best feeling for effective learning?' . And the reason why I decided the topic like this is that although there are lots of studies about feeling and learning as I mentioned before, there is not enough information or instructions about how to use them properly in class.