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This-essay is a7905091.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %INSTRUCTIONAL DISTANCE MOTIVATION 790509 To motivate students teachers need to challenge students with presentations which cause the students to reach, to try to rise to the level of the presentations. If the instructor's presentations do not involve content material which is new to the students---the students will not learn from them. The instructors must maintain a distance between the level of their presentation and the present level of students. Part of the art of good instruction is setting the instructional distance at an appropriately high level. Some instructors seem to operate as if the greater the distance between students and their level of presentation---the greater the motivation and learning on the part of students. They think that learning is proportional to instructional distance. Experience clearly indicates that student's motivation and ability to learn increases with instructional distance only up to a very modest instructional distance. Beyond a certain point---instructional distance results in frustration, confusion, discouragement, alienation, and perceptions of arrogance. The instructor who does not know how to listen, or does not choose to listen, will not be aware when the instructional distance has become non- productively great. Such an instructor will tend to continue lecturing at increasingly great instructional distances and get further and further out of touch with the students. When instructional distance increases---students may respond in a number of different ways. The students may perceive the instructor as technically competent---but unable to listen, dialogue, help, and in general respond to their needs. Recognition of such incompetence in necessary if students are to avoid the hazards of unmerited respect of instructionally incompetent teachers. Students who foolishly continue to respect teachers who do not listen to them---will box themselves into double binds. They will expect themselves to do all that their teacher expects of them, even though those expectations are unreasonable. When they fail to fulfill their own and the teacher's expectations they will tend to reject themselves just as the teacher does, and so be without self-respect or the respect of the one whom they have respected ultimately. They will thus lose their soul and have little hope of any kind. The distance between them and their instructor will increase---even as they maintain respect for their idol which demands their ultimate sacrifice of themselves. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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