Motivating Students

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by EricH

Get hold of an engineering textbook or three in your preferred discipline. If you can't find at least one place that uses stuff that you currently don't know what use it is, or worse, uses something that is based on that, let me know.

I blame my teacher for not properly teaching me the fundamentals... I know a good teacher when I meet one. My AP Physics teacher is a fantastic teacher, my math teacher is a antithesis. Well I guess she can be a "good" teacher, but that doesn't fit my learning style... In fact I had to correct her on lectures sometimes...

I am more of the "big picture" type of guy, teach me the big picture, I can figure most of the stuff out myself. But try teaching me the nitty gritty stuff like formulas without explaining how they work, it never worked out for me.

Im watching some of the MIT's youtube videos, I love them. They do a great job of teaching me.