The need in my lecture time with students is that short blocks are most appropriate. To format the lecture that is engaging for all and helps with all major learning styles.
Know the content you are teaching? Practice demonstrations before hand.
I need to remember to make myself flexible in my teaching styles and help out every student to the best of my ability.
Your students are taking your course to gain a set of competencies that will enable them to enter into and succeed in their chosen career area.
Its useful to use a variety of teaching methods to ensure that you keep students' engagement throughout topics.
Teaching strategies are important to understand how to keep the students engaged
To create a lesson plan for the day you should determine lesson content, state title, create goals, develop a “why”, list objectives, decide on delivery method and evaluate lesson effectiveness.
Seems pretty clear that the ability to learn and how natural some given method or aspect is will vary by individual.
Being attentive and perceptive of the changes in the classroom atmosphere, along with mindfulness of known averages of human attention and memory, will go a long way towards the students success.
Will also help develop skills of the instructor.
Most of it's pretty common sense, but specifics like attention span or ability to recall verbal vs written instruction and sequences will keep engagement up.
Use multiple delivery methods when lesson planning to keep students engaged, suite all different learning styles.
I like the idea of mini lectures. you do not want the students getting bored. You have to make learning exciting and to do that you have to be prepared and learn different ways of including different styles of teaching.
It is important to be able to incorporate the different learning styles of the students so they can all succeed.
Delivering Course Content
New teachers have a daunting task to develop the pedagogical skills. As a captain steers his ship a teacher must lead students in an exploration of knowledge and skill. Keeping in mind students learning styles and ways of delivering information the goal is still to get students to learn and retain. I think teachers who have great delivery and use different ways to get students attention is key.
A well-seasoned teacher can always improve on what worked and what didn't in lecture or in demonstration.
Comment on Michael Taylor's post: I agree with you. I noticed many TED talks have become viral on the internet because of their approach. I will keep it in mind when I am planning my lectures.
As instructors, we need to keep changing and adapting to reach our students and keep them interested. It is not an easy task but I learned with this course many excellent tools and a variety of methods.
You should be on the lookout and be aware of better and different ways you can offer instruction. Learning styles vary, so you should vary your delivery to address as many styles as possible. Prepare demonstrations before class and practice them, have a back up plan incase something goes wrong.
Use a variety of teaching methods.
Reading the room, knowing your audience. This should allow a successful delivery and good learning experience for the class. Sometimes more than one delivery method may be needed: so be it, it's about the students, you do what you have to do so the learning environment is productive and effective.
Make sure that I can properly vary my teaching style so that each student can learn from each style and also make sure that i practice each demo.
Student comprehension is of vital importance, referencing back to my experience as a student in a technical college environment an effective lesson plan within my courses greatly contributed to my comprehension of the material being presented. Being properly prepared and presenting the material to students in which they will better understand and comprehend the material is of great importance.
Develop lesson plans using various learning styles.
