- Use your voice effectively: occasionally go low and loud, vary how you speak to keep interest.
- Check to ensure there are few sensory distractions in the classroom.
- Move while talking and make the children move too. Movement can be stimulating and revitalizing.
- For every 10 minutes of instruction ensure two minutes where you pause and allow the students to absorb the lesson or ask questions.
- Incorporate dynamic lessons, with games, puzzles or quizzes.
- Break a big lesson into smaller, easily absorbed, bits that do not require long periods of sustained attention.
- Get the students to summarize and write down what they learnt in a lesson, what they liked and any questions they have.
Attention! Getting and sustaining it
