Too much excitement
i find it hard sometimes to refocus the group after, I get them excited about a topic. For instance, I am teaching Culinary History. I took over from an instrcutor that left that taught from the book. I use the book as a guide but have thrown dynamic powerpoints at them and have gotten them IN to it. I decided I was going to get specific with them and do "The Last Meal on the Titanic" since the anniversary is coming up. So i do the presentation, now they we are going to do a themed plating of desserts from the time period and TODAY. They asked me to get the culinary side involved to do a full fledged re inactment of the last meal all three classes of people on the ship - Great I did my job I got them all excited about a topic like we are supposed to do....well, as I was continuing on with the topic today I found the excitement still at such a HIGH level I got pulled back into the project and the lecture from the other day...
So question getting TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT and pulling them back - any suggestions? I dedicated about 30 minutes to lecture of the course and just finally gave up and we started planning...help. Kithcens are easy lectures - hard for me to control
Guy,
sounds like a great idea, but yes can be a challenge to pull back. It may be a matter of just explaining to the class that while there is the "fun" of the activity, there is also a certain amount of info that must be covered. They are young adults & hopefully they will work with you.
Dr. Ryan Meers
I feel you had an excellant idea to relate the students to a real world example. When you have an exciting group project in any field getting the students reeled in is a challage but compared to no interaction or excitment students do not get the full affect of project. Patty Vander Hoff
I've been in similar situations with my subject matter and the way that I have dealt best with excitement is by stating that once we get through the information that needs to be covered we can further discuss the previous material.
