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1. The Desire Method Here’s a quick start to using the Desire Method. As you know, the absolute most important part of effective teaching is how you start. If you begin the wrong way, it’s near impossible to get your student’s attention back. Never start with a typical ‘Welcome’ or ‘Here’s what we’re going to learn today’ (classic ‘AaT’ Mistake). Instead, begin your content with Headlines and with Hooks. 2. Feel The Pain The pain is always the emphasis on the lack of something. So if the benefit is Attention, the lack of Attention is the pain. Think about it this way: If your students are LACKING the content they’re about to learn, what impact would that have? How does NOT knowing your content ultimately hurt their future success? 3. The Preview Strategy: How To Create Anticipation For Your Curriculum Here’s a brilliant effective teaching strategy for you: Create anticipation for your curriculum. Most teachers start the year by saying something general like, “This year is going to be great, you’re going to learn all about…” – classic AaT mistake. Instead, build up the benefit, value, pain, lack and top it off with a Preview: “…but you’ll only learn the 4 secrets to George Washington’s Leadership Success in a few months…” Did you feel that? Now your students CAN’T learn something? They can’t have something they WANT right now? Super powerful, 100% attention hacker gold. 4. A Wild Secret for Effective Teaching: Teach with VAK Here’s something you already know: There are 3 main types of learners – Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic. To really master effective teaching, notice which type your students are. Visual is seeing the material, Audio is hearing the material, and Kinesthetic is feeling the material. Meaning, the optimal learning environment is NOT to sit passively waiting for a lecture to end. The IDEAL learning environment is when the student sees, hears, and feels the material themselves.