Chapter 2: Motivating Young Adolescents

Chapter 2 gives a lot of examples on how to keep young adults attention during a lesson. When reading the chapter, I noticed a lot of the same methods that high school teachers use in their classrooms. It was mentioned to use cooperative learning strategies, such as “jigsaw” grouping. Also, another great suggestion was over exaggerating concepts so that they are easily remembered. Some multiple intelligences were also mentioned like musical and kinesthetic. I think it would be a good idea to introduce different learning styles and such mentioned in this chapter early in a child’s education. This way, when the student gets to high school, they can perfect the styles and methods; they would know what to expect.