1. Attention Grabbing
In order for students to listen and therefore learn, they must first be interested. Ask any teacher what the most difficult part of teaching is and they will tell you it is grabbing and keeping the student’s attention.
Getting their attention is one thing, keeping it is another. As any parent or teacher will tell you, children of all ages are easily distracted if they are not engaged.. Luckily, the content of a well scripted science show, with interesting equipment on stage, keeps even the youngest students‘ curiosity piqued. They can’t wait to see what happens next.
3. Time Considerations
It’s important to be mindful of the length of your school assembly. No matter how interesting or engaging something is, it is a natural human trait to become satiated after a while. With that in mind, Dennis Regling Wonder Shows school assemblies are engineered to be exciting and informative from start to finish. There’s no wasted time. No boring lectures. The schedule of the assembly is specifically built to entertain and inform without dragging on.
4. The Message
Let’s face it, no matter how engaged a student becomes, he or she must also be learning. This is paramount to Dennis Regling with each show he writes. National science standards, state standards and now, Common Core, are evaluated and built into each show.Learning is goal number one.
5. Sustainability
Any teacher knows that repetition is one of the pillars of the learning process. The schools that bring Dennis back time and time again have found their students craving the learning environment he creates. They remember the message and lessons because of the way it was presented. Additionally, every program includes safe experiments students can do at home and resources for the teachers to build upon in the classroom.