I am sure if you are a teacher you have heard it before; or if you are a parent you may have been asked by your children; or some of you may have asked the same question when you were at school.
'Why do I need science? Why do I need maths? When would I need to find x? or would it really matter if I cannot write up a conclusion for my investigation?'
To be perfectly honest I give my pupils another way to look at. It is not about the knowledge or the facts you write in a lesson; it is to do with the skills you develop to learn from someone more experienced than you. We all need to learn, I am still learning myslef; the worst mistake anyone could make is to feel as though there is nothing else more to learn.
Pupils need to listen and learn because it helps develop essential learning skills. Now it is frustrating when you want to teach someone something you are passionate about, like myself with my science lessons; but at the end of the day you cannot make someone love something you are passionate on, we are all different and we all have different interests.
What you can do is ask the pupils what interests them and then relate it to why sitting through a science class can prove to help get the pupil to where their heart is.
Touch the heart first then you have their minds.
So you could say to your pupils or children;
'try your hardest in concentrating in class, not because you need to learn the facts but because the embedded skills that are unseen within the class while you are learning can prove to be more valuable'.
'Why do I need science? Why do I need maths? When would I need to find x? or would it really matter if I cannot write up a conclusion for my investigation?'
To be perfectly honest I give my pupils another way to look at. It is not about the knowledge or the facts you write in a lesson; it is to do with the skills you develop to learn from someone more experienced than you. We all need to learn, I am still learning myslef; the worst mistake anyone could make is to feel as though there is nothing else more to learn.
Pupils need to listen and learn because it helps develop essential learning skills. Now it is frustrating when you want to teach someone something you are passionate about, like myself with my science lessons; but at the end of the day you cannot make someone love something you are passionate on, we are all different and we all have different interests.
What you can do is ask the pupils what interests them and then relate it to why sitting through a science class can prove to help get the pupil to where their heart is.
Touch the heart first then you have their minds.
So you could say to your pupils or children;
'try your hardest in concentrating in class, not because you need to learn the facts but because the embedded skills that are unseen within the class while you are learning can prove to be more valuable'.
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