Steps for motivating accounting students :
1st : To Make Accounting Learning Environment
When you go to park what you feel, you feel more relax and more pure oxygen because park's environment has been made by planting lots of trees. Without flowers and trees and their care, park can not provide the best environment for exercise and yoga. Now, something will apply on accounting learning. If you are interested to motivate your accounting students, you first making accounting learning environment. Following principle will be useful for this.
1. Fix the time to come in the classroom. No excuse, no sorry for late students. Late students always disturb for making good learning environment.
2. Stop to call on mobile during the time of teaching.
3. Keep smiling on your face. When your student did not solve your given accounting problem after your teaching, never feel angry. Smile on the face and try to teach that student with different way.
4. Bring Silence in the classroom. We know, for motivation, there is big need of peace of students, otherwise, it will not affect the students to learn accounting their own.
5. In classroom, keep the chart of basic accounting formulae and terms. It will attract the students to remember them and give good impression on students in classroom.
2nd Step : Motivate Accounting Students by Telling their Potential After Learning
Teacher should give the vision to their accounting students. By providing extra information of accounting career, he should motivate the students. Lots business magazines in which successful entrepreneurs history are given which had learned accounting in the beginning of their academic and professional education. I know my lots of friends who learned accounting with me in graduate level and now providing their professional accounting service at international level after doing CA. So, this is proud for me. Students also want to become anything which give them fame and name. So, both are in accounting learning. Student will become regular for learning accounting if you give the dose of encouraging them for developing their life with learning of accounting. Always give the example of great business personalities of the world. Buy the books of biographies of great personalities. Read them one by one and tell their stories for motivating the accounting students.
3rd Step : Create Fun with Your Words
Few days ago, I watched Johnny lever interview video in which he told that he started his career in Hindustan lever. His duty was to create fun for 10000 workers. This was the 27 years old history. He copied the voice of big stars at that time. By this fun, nobody was absent. All will come early before the duty time only for getting happiness of Johnny lever's fun words.
Same step can also use by any accounting teacher who is giving just boring accounting lecture. In real sense without fun and enjoy, everything is boring. If you do not know, how to teach accounting with fun, learn from this article.
3rd Step : To Give Personal Attachment
When you see any student who is not good responding on your given accounting problem, it means, there is something wrong. You should give him personal attachment. Ask their personal problems. Solve them. This will be great motivation for him or her because student will think you as the part of his or her family.
4th Step : Motivate to Do Experiment and Research
Whether it is to make the balance sheet or to maintain a new company's account, you should motivate the students to do experiment and research. Every student is future's great accountant who handle the company, so, give them power by motivating them to do experiment and research in accounting.
5th Step : To Do Group Discussion on Accounting Topic
When there is any doubtful concept in accounting, you should arrange the group discussion on that topic. When your student will speak their opinion in group discussion, his or her confidence will increase. This is the motivation in real sense.
6th Step : Give the Problem and Make Expert to Your Students
My brother always fear when I drive the car because I will drive wrong. He is my brother. But he is not my teacher. Teacher will teach. He will give problem and give freedom to solve this challenge. Only then, his students will become expert. I also teach to drive to my brother. But after giving instruction, I give freedom to drive in blank space. Now, I am so careful to check his performance. Like this, you should also give accounting problems to your students. If any student will do best, give him reward. It will give motivation to them to grow in accounting.
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