Get Your Students Hired
You must look at the needs of the students as well as the coarse content to find out what maywork in the classroom.
Hi Celina,
Not muddled at all. I understand where you are coming from completely.
Gary
I sometimes think that Hippa gets in the way with our "insight" of the "needs" of an individual...There seems to be a fine line of needs vs. wants in some cases. Also, I think that some tend to overuse the term special needs. Some use it as a crutch and others may overcome their needs.
I hope that my muddled thoughts came through alright...
Hi Catherine,
There are several pretest methods you can use. You can give your students a list of terms related to the field and see if they have any knowledge of the terms. This will give you a baseline of where your students are and were you need to start your instruction. You can have them to a quick writing assignment such as what are your career goals or what do you expect to get out of this course. I call these one minute papers. They have 60 seconds to write their goals or expectations. When I review their writing I get a picture of their writing abilities along with their abilities to work under time stress. All of this I consider as I develop my lessons for that class of students.
Gary