Chapter # 7 Teaching Difficult Academic Material

Teaching difficult material can be a challenge to the best of teachers. In fact parts of some subjects may seem near impossible to teach, but it is important that we remember it is the students that are doing the learning. As a result an educator should take into consideration the students suggestions on how to teach the material. One such suggestion is to ask questions that motivate student thought.

In past experiences I know that I have always learned better in classes that ask questions that motivate thought. In classes like History or English these questions are all to easy to create. In Math and Sciences the opposite tends to be true. Although I must admit that I have been fortunate enough to have a math teacher that did ask motivating questions. He used to challenge us to come up with as many real life applications as we could, for the material we were learning.