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Ben Dover · 11th December 2007, 10:11

I've been teaching M6 for a number of years now. Really they aren't motivated by anything other than Entrance Exam preparation. Many schools stick us foreign teachers in the classroom to do conversation exercises, but these are meaningless to the students. Conversation isn't part of their exams, even for international programs at the top universities.
So if you're teaching those things to M6 students they simply won't participate. Foreign teachers are unfortunately associated with wasting of time. Just a show to allow the school to raise fees. Really, the only thing to get the students attention is work on their entrance exam material.

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Ben Dover Ben Dover is..... New Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Bangkok Posts: 37 vCash: 500 Rep Power: 0	Re: Motivating Mathayom Students I've been teaching M6 for a number of years now. Really they aren't motivated by anything other than Entrance Exam preparation. Many schools stick us foreign teachers in the classroom to do conversation exercises, but these are meaningless to the students. Conversation isn't part of their exams, even for international programs at the top universities. So if you're teaching those things to M6 students they simply won't participate. Foreign teachers are unfortunately associated with wasting of time. Just a show to allow the school to raise fees. Really, the only thing to get the students attention is work on their entrance exam material.