1. It is often said:
Have you ever wondered why you remember vividly what you were doing when
you received the news of the September 11 bombings or what you were doing
when you felt the little quakes of the earth during the famous Ikeja explosion?
Those events are tied to strong emotions (“horror” and “fear”) hence your mind
keeps the pictures and replays the scenes with accuracy.
I may not be able (in all entirety) to point out clearly why I remember him, maybe
it’s because I like him, because I love his method of teaching or maybe it’s
because I just love chemistry. Though, there were eight other teachers but I can
still remember his classes, the way he darts in front of the class asking and
answering questions, the way he leads my thinking process, leading me to find
answers to my own questions. I can even remember the fact that he teaches us
on Tuesdays(single period) and Thursdays(double period) and how sacred I hold
those days, how important those 45minuites of his class were to me. How he
makes me actively engaged in his class, how he makes chemistry lively and

2. happening around me, showing me how much of a chemist I’ve been and how
much more I can be, I still remember him. His name is Mr. Ehirim (my secondary
school chemistry teacher) and one thing I can say about him is that
In today’s world of teaching and learning, while the teacher stands in front of his
students with his manuscript and lesson notes hoping that whatever he teaches
will be learnt. It often remains said that most times a teacher fails at his task not
because he was not prepared but because he has reduced teaching to lecture
(the pouring out of facts and details on the child). I can remember my days in the
university, when lecturers will just come to us with notes (notes we could have
easily picked up from the library or internet and read on our own
), when I remember those days I often ask myself the real job of the lecturer
‘cause if I remove the notes he has copied and read to us, I cannot actually see
what he has done to make us learn.
In our present materialistic world, the child is exposed to different stimuli, each
craving his/her attention, this leaves the child as a victim of technology, peer
pressure and social issues etc. so while the child sits in class looking vividly at the
teacher(who’s in his own world, fervently reciting facts and details of his course
content) the child could as well be thinking of Chelsea and how he/she intends to
celebrate the champions league victory or something else (like Facebook chat or
even pinging on his/her blackberry) because he is a passive participant in
the class, his/her attention can easily drift from the teacher’s monologue.
So the teacher is today faced with an arduous task of gaining the child’s
attention and holding this attention till the end of his lecture.

3. What’s true is:
It can be achieved by discretionary use of questioning techniques.
 When questions are asked, the child is aware that he’s going to be asked
questions so he’s very attentive not wanting the teacher to catch him
unawares.
 Questions can also help the teacher in digging into the child’s
understanding, finding out what he knows, what he does not and correcting
the wrong notions of the child.
 Questions also help leave the child in a state of active participation
preventing his unconscious loss of attention while the class is on.
Whether you are a Teacher, Pastor, Lecturer, or Businessman, Public speaker etc.
you can actually make your presentation more lively if only you can appropriately
utilize the questioning technique..
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