Get Your Students Hired
It is important to teach the curriculum and course content, but we must be able to see if our students are "checked out" or are listening and absorbing the information. Incorporate fun activities to achieve your goal.
This lesson has helped me put together some ideas for planning learning activities at the beginning, during, and end of class. I always say hello to my students, ask how they're doing, and tell them goodbye at the end. I see there is much more to learn about planning effective and engaging lectures. I plan to implement new strategies.
I learned a bit about breaking my science lecture into smaller bite-sized increments of no more than 20-25 minutes at a time. Now is the harder part for me--developing creative ways for them to interact while we discuss anatomy and physiology.
It's important to keep the objectives in mind when creating assessments and learning materials.
It is apparent that I continually demonstrate the real value of the information being taught. Stressing how it will be necessary in future jobs, as well as futur tests.
We must create an atmosphere that is welcoming and positive for the students to promote learning. Planning and prep is everything!
Lots of great information here. It's so important to keep the students engaged in the lesson and if they enjoy it, it makes it so much better.
I like to start of my class with a positive quote related to the subject being taught to help get students engaged in the lecture. As a take away I hope to increase my skills by starting off classes with an activity to keep students engaged as a new technique.
In the past I have engaged students at the start of class but usually by asking questions. This unit taught me to use other ways to engage students.
I don't know that I learned something new, but I did rediscover truths about teaching that I've probably let sit dormant. 1. Link what you're teaching (which for me is English) to the real world and how it will be a useful tool. 2. Don't over lecture. 20-25 mins is enough. Switch gears. 3. Have a memorable closing.
I prefer to start the course with a welcome to my class introduction about myself. Setting the tone of what is expected and required to be successful.
I loved the opening activity examples. I often struggle with coming up with a good fun but relevant intro. I also love the emphasis that a lesson doesn't necessarily have to be old school 90 minute lecture format to be effective. I love that a discussion is also labeled as a form of instruction. It's hard for those of us who grew up on those lectures to wrap our head around that sometime.
I make sure to start off each semester with an ice breaker with them introducing themselves and something they like so everyone gets to know one another and I learn their names much faster that way. The students seem to be suprised when I call them by name and they are much happier participating and coming to class knowing they are seen/heard/appreciated.
Beginning the class meeting by "checking in" each student. Using sentence stems and engaging students with energy and positivity. Followed by closing the end of the class meeting on an upbeat note also.
I always appreciate new ideas for classroom interaction. I find it difficult to do activities due to the volume of information and the difficulty for students if I don’t cover most everything. It was good to be validated that using questioning techniques throughout lecture is an activity that helps with retention. I have had classroom observations in the past that do not acknowledge this.
I will take the time to answer lab review questions with the class instead of them completing it on their own. a debriefing at the end of lab