Attention is the foundation of learning. Without ensuring attention from your students, there can be no learning and no acquisition of knowledge. Attention is mainly determined by framing the information rather than the information itself. Through the use of novelty, intensity, and movement/motion, your students will pay and maintain their attention on you.
Motivation is why we do what we do; getting students to do anything requires them to be motivated. If you desire to get your students to do work, listen to you talk, and show up to class, you have to understand what drives and motivates them. Without that understanding, you are left trying to forcibly drag a horse when all it requires is a pat and a nudge.
Feedback is crucial to your students’ academic success. If they do not know what they can improve upon, they will never be able to do better. Yet feedback can also be hurtful, uninsightful, and unmotivating. Therefore, to ensure good academic outcomes for students, you must understand how to give them feedback.
Being emotionally connected to your students will increase their ability to perform, learn, be motivated, and their loyalty. Quality student-teacher bonds have an increased association with positive emotions and a negative association with negative emotions. What makes a good emotional bond will vary, but this section gives you the foundation to understand it.
The goal of teaching is to create an acquisition of knowledge in students. Yet, many professors repeat the same tactics without knowing their efficacy; students need variability, separation, and strategies for long-term retention. Without understanding what long-term retention is built on, a professor can never teach properly.