Leaving 20 years behind in teaching profession, I have met various students with different personalities, talents, preferences and lifestyles. Now we have the millennials in our language classrooms and I find them quite different from the previous generation.
Do you find it challenging to teach Gen Z? What do you experience with them in your classrooms? What methods work best, what not? Any suggestions to teach them better?
I'd appreciate your contribution.
Thanks
Are you talking about millennials or Gen Z? Millennials are in their 30s.
Thank you very much Alron Kevin Agapito Arzaga
andDebra Sharon Ferdinand-James
for your responses. Gen Z are in our classrooms right now, so Mary F. Rice I've used the wrong generation name in the question. Thank you for pointing this out.
Neil Bowen Thank you for your answer. I agree that they have a very short attention span and they are not very good at deadlines. They want everything "short", so they find writing or speaking about a topic boring... Stating their like or dislike only, or if they agree or disagree is enough, for example. No need to support it ... because it is so!
We do have quizlet vocabulary workshops here. We teach five new words and play quizlet live together to revise the new and the previously taught vocabulary. They love it! Why? It is competitive. They play it with their phones. And it is a team work.
Need to take note of following when dealing with them...
- Shorter Attention Spans
- Uncomfortable With Boredom
- That Fierce Urgency of Now
- Visually Preferred
- Interactive and Hands-On
- Love Challenge
- Curious
- Success Trough Strategy
Thank you D A Gayan Nayanajith ... The one that challenges me most is "that fierce urgency of now".. Patience is a virtue...
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