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Why Your 3 Year Old Students Aren’t Paying Attention (Or “Zoning Your Very Young Learner Classroom”)

Why Your 3 Year Old Students Aren’t Paying Attention (Or “Zoning Your Very Young Learner Classroom”)

How long can you pay attention for? Will you make it to the end of this blog post before you get distracted? You’re an adult, so it should be easy. But what if you were four years old? How long could you focus for? Young children have short attention spans. If you’re teaching very young learners (three, for and five-year olds) it’s very unlikely then can pay attention for more than five minutes. So what can you do to keep them engaged for an hour long class?