I like to make it fun and we have a game that applies to our area of study (Foodie Fight)... I feel the healthy competition allows them to recall the information easier. However, I'd also like to create one a little more specific to the class.
I believe I can add a more positive spin on the realtionship of the material I am useing and its relevance to the student. I think I do some, but I may not always relate it to their age level in reference to when I was there and was truely excited to be in this trade.
I am going to make it a point to make the first and last items that I cover be the most relevent since people will remember them the most. I will also use the different techniques discussed in planning future lectures and class days.
I am concerned with retention of learning because I work in a science-oriented profession but teach to mostly non-science oriented students.
They have limited time to learn information and yet it is a college-level class that is transferable.
Accelerated learning and teaching is what we are doing each day. I am going to work on less memorization and more problem solving. I will try to work from the end back to the beginning. I am going to try to find more patterns to the content to increase learning.
I am going to try 80/20 beginning next term.
I like the backward chaining concept as I teach a lot of terminology and I think it will help retention. I also will back more attention to how I can use primacy and recency in tying together the concepts we cover.
I believe visual and interactive activities stimulate memory...I.E. I remember when he made us do that!!!!
I like to have questions in the morning from the previous day's class.
Use positive comments. Talk more about the labs we do after we are done
In my class I give the students different mneumonic devices for the material that we are learning. They have the option to make up their own of course, but I also show them what has worked for me in order to help them to retain the information I am teaching.
I find myself in line with many of the sugestions out lined in this course,however I do not have any learnig games.I intend to develop at least one for my course.
Games can be very simple but still reinforce the material covered in class. It can be as simple as dividing the class into groups and have each group teach the other groups and the class votes on who did the best presentation.
Great approach Cynthia!
It does make information much easier to remember when we can relate it to another experience, circumstance, symbol, etc.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Good for you Wilfred!
Students really do enjoy games and they are such good learning/reviewing tools. Anything that is visual and interactive generally works well in any classroom.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Absolutely Darrell! Simple is often the very best!
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
I will use the grouping methods as well as memory by assiciation. I will certainly give these methods a try. I feel that I will get positive results from these and then I will build from these into other memory assistant metods.
Hi Robert!
Great approach to start with what we know and then to move on from what we learn. Isn't that what we hope will occur with our students as well?
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
I alwyas tell them at different times my way of remembering things. I think it makes them come up with their own ideas and I have a lot of fun doing it with them.
When maximizing retention through memory, student must be able to focus and the lesson must be interesting to maintain concentration. Distraction and interuptions usually cause focus loose and can have a negative effect on the task at hand. I ultilize a time span on outlining a lesson. If I have a morning class, I will outline and lecture the exciting points and bring in the root of the lesson plan after I have clearly gotten some interaction from the class. This sometimes may require a open discussion on some other topic that might excite the class before getting down to the lesson plan outline and agenda.
HI
I teach 100% online. There are limitations to commenting on this to some extent.
I do give live presentations. I use music to start with and incorporate visuals. I do always offer a list of topics to be covered for the presentation. I then present the information and offer students the opportunity to share personal experiences related to each topic as we go through it. I strive to incorporate real-world examples to support the concepts and make it more relevant. I list the topics covered at the end as well.
Students have the opportunity to go through simulations in some classes as well, which helps with learning retention.
Jocelyn Dervis
I will begin using the agenda before class as suggested, perhaps on the whiteboard. I didn't really think about students needing to know the plan for the entire class period. I had always thought, when I was a student, that I'd rather be surprised, so it was good to be reminded that some people like to know exactly what is going to happen next in order to feel oriented.
