Get Your Students Hired
I BELIEVE I WILL IMPLEMENT AN ADDITIONAL COURSE REVIEW TO ASSIST THE STUDENTS WITH PREPARING FOR CERTIFICATION TESTING. ALTHOUGH MY STUDENTS HAVE ALL PASSED THESE TESTS IN THE PAST I BELIEVE BY ADDING ASDDITIONAL REVIEW I WILL BE ABLE TO RAISE THEIR SCORES.
Hi Melissa,
Good to learn of your background as a special education teacher. I currently train students to become special education teachers and I agree with your statement about how effective special education instructors are. Special education is student focused and as a result these instructors are willing to try anything to get the students engaged and making learning progress. This same model works with all teaching. To me good teaching is good teaching no matter who the students are nor what the subject is.
Gary
Being a Special Education Teacher, I have had the benefit of learning techniques related to teaching learners with a variety of abilities. I believe one of the most useful tools is to use multi modal approaches to instruction. I try to incorporate as many delivery methods for the same topic as possible and also use personal experiences where available to make the information more personal.
Hi Susie,
Good comments about how to get students to retain information. The color coding of critical content really helps with retention. Anything you can do like share a story related to the new content will help with memory storage for students.
Gary
Learning about deletion will certainly change the way I approach my lectures. At times I have written the essential points to remember in a designated color of marker on the whiteboard. I stopped doing this a while ago, probably just from laziness. I see now that it is a good technique to help my students to "save" and not "delete" essential information and I will start this again.
I believe that learning what makes student learn will increase my ability to reach more students. I currently very my teaching to include activites that allow students to touch the equipment they are learning about and put them through case learning.
Well first let me rephrase, "Learning is a lifelong process". Information being delivered to students has to also be understood by the instructor, not just taking info form a book and delivering it to the students. As an instructor, sometimes information being spoken may be alot faster than the brain can process.
As an instructor, I try to include activities for all learners. Whether the assignment is provided through written directions, computer based visual, or through dialogue, students tend to learn more by having a variety of instructional modes. This variety also transfers into they types of assessments required. The paper/pencil is not the only method for students to demonstrate their knowledge.
I teach a lecture course that is directly complimentary to a lab class. I think it makes it easier for students to relate to my information if I bring it back to their demo/lab class. Cross references validates the information given and makes both classes relevant to the student.
My lesson plans every day include lecture, demonstration, then assisting student through hands-on assignments. Knowing how students learn differently will allow me to tailor, and vary, instruction in all those areas to the individual needs of various students.
At this time we begin with a short lecture on the subject. We then go through a demonstration of what we will be expecting from the students today. The students are then broken up into groups and they are asked to recreate what has been discussed and demonstrated. We also try to change up the groups on a regular basis and sometimes we ask the students to perform the functions on an individual basis.I seem to be getting very good results this way.
This module was as much a reminder to me as it was a learning experience, that different people innately "favor" different thinking modes and that working adults attending career colleges need to be approached with an understanding that we need to find the right context and relevance for each individual if we want to be successful instructors.
Hi Jim,
There is a strong connection between mind and body so the more you can involve both the greater your retention of content is going to be by your students. Keep up the research on how the brain functions. We know so little and so we are all in the learning phase together as we strive for more effective and efficient learning.
Gary
Hi Connal,
As a result of your course being totally kinesthetic you have a great advantage as you teach because students like to see application and be involved in the learning process. I am sure they really enjoy taking your class as a result of them being so immersed in tactile learning.
Gary
Understanding how a student's brain learns will help me to tailor my instructional delivery to enable my students to absorb, retain and use as much information as possible. As I continue to learn more and more about how the brain learns I am doing more and more hands on activities. I am finding that more hands on work helps my students grasp the difficult concepts of the various computer programming languages that I teach.
My course is totally kinesthetic. I talk students through a process, then show them, then have them perform while explaing the steps as they go. When presenting general information, I will now make more of an effort to repeat important data to better help students store the data in their long-term memory. I also ask about students' background to create analogies between my new data and their previous experiences.
Hi Jon-Paul,
Right you are. With this form of segmenting the students can build on what they are learning as they put together the complete chain of concepts and principles of the field.
Gary
By using short term memory items to build a longer term abstract idea, the student can take smaller satisfying pieces of knkowledge and build into more complex and active learning models of learner behavior.
Hi Kenneth,
Thank you for this overview and information about the brain. I have been teaching and research learning for many years and it seems that everyday I am constantly amazed at the brain and how it operates. I am like you in that we know so little about the brain so I am amazed that we are able to learn anything at all.
Gary
Each student processes information/learns differently. It is my job as an instructor to know these differences and to adapt my teaching to help students be successful in my class. I use a variety of different delivery methods or styles to help my students learn the best way possible. As a culinary arts instructor, I use powerpoint slides, lecture, demonstration, teamwork, and repetition to help students learn new information and retain important foundation materials.