She explains how social conditions can affect how mindful a student will be. This week's tips offer suggestions to encourage mindfulness in your students. Make It Meaningful People become more mindful when they believe something meaningful is happening. Since it is impossible to anticipate what different students will find important, create ways to encourage them to look for connections to the course material. Introduce a topic by challenging students to think of how it might connect to past, present, or future experiences.
Students can share orally at the end of class or write a short response.
Ask your students to identify something in the reading material or lecture that has personal significance for them. After illustrating a concept with your examples, pause and ask students to provide examples from their experience. Give students an index card at the beginning of class and ask them to write down one or more potential applications of today's lesson by the end. When people are not comfortably certain with what will happen next, they become more alert. By contrast, when a teacher simplifies information, students feel they can adopt a mindless attitude, trusting they won't be surprised.