Get Your Students Hired
As a culinary instructor, a cooking demo is a visual for the students. It is necessary for culinary students to see how the product is made and to taste it in order to perform and gasp the concept.
Much like cooking, math is not a spectator sport. I found that using a lead-in story on how a particular method of solving a math problem is used in the medical profession. Then, I assign a word problem (or two) as homework to enforce the lecture and learning objective.
I agree, visual demos coupled with hands on learning provides the students with the confidence to approach tasks when working individually. I teqach cosmetology and many times during demos I have the students assist with the service so that they will have a working understanding of what is occuring during the service.
I agree in Cosmetology student need visual demo are necessary for the students
Rachel,
great point! Too often we think demos only apply to the hands-on disciplines, but we can demo anything & make it interesting.
Dr. Ryan Meers
Even though I teach English and not something like cooking, I can still give a "demo" on how to write an essay which is very effective.
Michelle,
I agree with you that these kinds of demonstrations really help open the students' minds up for the instruction & practice to follow.
Dr. Ryan Meers
I teach hospital pharmacy and always show a visual demo before I have the students start the hands on training for the class. I find that the students ask more questions when they see me doing the demo first.
I agree with you statement. One of the subject I teach is minimal drum mic'ing and without actually giving a hands on lesson to the students the class would be very lackluster.