Importance of Class Participation

Studying abroad means starting a whole new life as an international student. Students try to adapt to new surroundings, new teaching and new studying methods, new classmates, new environment, and new people can become ominous until students don't get to socialize with other people. Most of the time people get to socialize in classrooms or on campus, so make good use of it.

 

Active classroom participation is an important way of adapting to a new lifestyle. By communicating in class, students learn to express their points of view and ideas to the other students in a way that they can understand. When a student asks questions, they learn to obtain information to intensify their knowledge. Some people are introverts by nature while some lack confidence to speak to people that easily, so speaking in class can be a struggle for many students. This struggle might be explicit in the classroom in many ways like not answering questions, not volunteering in any activity, not asking for help from anyone, and not even talking to anyone in class at all. There are many ways to support active participation in the class, here are some.

 

·     Self-Confidence:

Many students get nervous to speak in front of a crowd of people. To overcome this fear, students need to push themselves and learn to speak in class.

 

Participating actively in the class will help students to build their confidence as well as make them comfortable speaking in front of a huge crowd. Having the quality to speak in front of people is important in the real world.

Confidence is an important accessory in human life and one should wear it.

 

·     Increase attention

Students need to interact with the professor and other classmates because listening to one long lecture can make a person lose interest. Interacting with the professor and the classmate will help the environment of the class be active. Asking questions, clearing doubts, and debating on topics will not make the class environment unexcited but will rather help students to focus on the lectures. This will in turn help them to increase their attention.

 

·     Engagement

While interacting and clearing doubts with the students helps them engage. Asking questions to the students or raising questions by the students will let other students think about the possible answers, and come up with tons of solutions. This leads to the analytical skill and the development of thinking in students. Thus class participation will help all the students to be engaged and help them know each other better.

 

·     Put Forth Opinions

Participating in class helps students to keep up with the topics that are being discussed. When students start paying attention in the class naturally they start thinking and analyzing the subjects and they start putting their thoughts into them. When the student's thoughts are different from the professor or any classmate’s, the student feels that their thoughts need to be expressed. At that time they can openly put forth their opinions. In this competitive world, having our own opinion is necessary to survive. Class participation helps students to fearlessly express opinions.

 

·     Ideas

From raising the question to expressing opinions with other classmates generate various ideas. These talks help students to understand how different individuals think. It also helps them in exchanging interesting knowledge, facts, and information that will help them in the future.

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