Blog 2: Non-responsive Students

Why do not some students participate in lessons? According to my previous teaching experiences, this can happen because of two reasons. Firstly, the teacher may be aggressive towards the students, discouraging them when they give a wrong answer, not listening to students etc. as you can see, it may originate from the teacher itself. On the other hand, there are some elements that are caused by students themselves. The first reason is that they may not fully know the answer or they do not have any idea about the topic. In this case they don’t want to look silly in front of their peers, thus they prefer remaining silent. In this case the teacher should promote students to join the lesson by saying “It does not matter if it is right or not, just tell your opinion because that matters.”, secondly, they may think that it is not worth answering questions. As a student myself, in high school I usually avoided answering questions, and sometimes I even did not bother with answering them on...