motiv8r
07-27-2009, 06:36 PM
Hi,
I've posted earlier about motivation in general. This time, I wish to consider details about one school subject.
How do you sell your foreign language students, on Day One of the school year, about the value of what you're teaching? In other words, do you somehow appeal to their self-interest and talk about the payoffs they personally will experience?
How do they respond?
I'm making a set of "sales pitches" that parents and teachers can use. The sales pitches' purpose is for children to try harder, to feel enthusiasm, or at least to not hate the schoolwork so much.
Imagine starting the first day of your class by introducing yourself and then telling the kids what selfish reasons they have to learn the subject you're teaching. Alternatively, you could give it to them as a printed handout which they would read while you check attendance. That's how I'm guessing a sales pitch should be delivered. If you do it differently, I hope you'll tell about it.
Following are some reasons for learning a new language that I came up with.
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If you get a chance to learn a useful foreign language in school, you avoid having to learn it as an adult. That's valuable because there are more demands on your time and more valuable things available to pursue as an adult than when you're in school. Get language learning out of the way!
Some jobs will demand that applicants speak a foreign language - hopefully the language you studied. You might have few or no other applicants competing with you.
Employers are taking a risk if they hire you when you've just graduated and have no work experience. They'll be more willing to take that risk if they need but can't find qualified people speaking the foreign language you learned.
Living and working overseas for a while is cool! :cool2: You get interesting experiences and perspective from living in a different culture. It's much easier to work or do business in a foreign country if you speak their native language.
Your fluency will impress college admissions officials.
Having real mastery of foreign languages, combined with foreign travel, makes people see you as an interesting and valuable person to know.
If you are a male learning French or Italian, you might benefit from women seeing you as more romantic! :love:
I've posted earlier about motivation in general. This time, I wish to consider details about one school subject.
How do you sell your foreign language students, on Day One of the school year, about the value of what you're teaching? In other words, do you somehow appeal to their self-interest and talk about the payoffs they personally will experience?
How do they respond?
I'm making a set of "sales pitches" that parents and teachers can use. The sales pitches' purpose is for children to try harder, to feel enthusiasm, or at least to not hate the schoolwork so much.
Imagine starting the first day of your class by introducing yourself and then telling the kids what selfish reasons they have to learn the subject you're teaching. Alternatively, you could give it to them as a printed handout which they would read while you check attendance. That's how I'm guessing a sales pitch should be delivered. If you do it differently, I hope you'll tell about it.
Following are some reasons for learning a new language that I came up with.
---
If you get a chance to learn a useful foreign language in school, you avoid having to learn it as an adult. That's valuable because there are more demands on your time and more valuable things available to pursue as an adult than when you're in school. Get language learning out of the way!
Some jobs will demand that applicants speak a foreign language - hopefully the language you studied. You might have few or no other applicants competing with you.
Employers are taking a risk if they hire you when you've just graduated and have no work experience. They'll be more willing to take that risk if they need but can't find qualified people speaking the foreign language you learned.
Living and working overseas for a while is cool! :cool2: You get interesting experiences and perspective from living in a different culture. It's much easier to work or do business in a foreign country if you speak their native language.
Your fluency will impress college admissions officials.
Having real mastery of foreign languages, combined with foreign travel, makes people see you as an interesting and valuable person to know.
If you are a male learning French or Italian, you might benefit from women seeing you as more romantic! :love: