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%INSTRUCTIONAL DISTANCE MOTIVATION 790509
To motivate students teachers need to challenge
students with presentations which cause the students to
reach, to try to rise to the level of the presentations.
If the instructor's presentations do not involve content
material which is new to the students---the students will
not learn from them. The instructors must maintain a
distance between the level of their presentation and the
present level of students. Part of the art of good
instruction is setting the instructional distance at an
appropriately high level.
Some instructors seem to operate as if the greater
the distance between students and their level of
presentation---the greater the motivation and learning on
the part of students. They think that learning is
proportional to instructional distance. Experience
clearly indicates that student's motivation and ability to
learn increases with instructional distance only up to a
very modest instructional distance. Beyond a certain
point---instructional distance results in frustration,
confusion, discouragement, alienation, and perceptions of
arrogance. The instructor who does not know how to
listen, or does not choose to listen, will not be aware
when the instructional distance has become non-
productively great. Such an instructor will tend to
continue lecturing at increasingly great instructional
distances and get further and further out of touch with
the students.
When instructional distance increases---students may
respond in a number of different ways. The students may
perceive the instructor as technically competent---but
unable to listen, dialogue, help, and in general respond
to their needs. Recognition of such incompetence in
necessary if students are to avoid the hazards of
unmerited respect of instructionally incompetent teachers.
Students who foolishly continue to respect teachers who do
not listen to them---will box themselves into double
binds. They will expect themselves to do all that their
teacher expects of them, even though those expectations
are unreasonable. When they fail to fulfill their own and
the teacher's expectations they will tend to reject
themselves just as the teacher does, and so be without
self-respect or the respect of the one whom they have
respected ultimately. They will thus lose their soul and
have little hope of any kind. The distance between them
and their instructor will increase---even as they maintain
respect for their idol which demands their ultimate
sacrifice of themselves.
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