Reviews
How do you use reviews in your class as a learning tool? How long do you budget each day for your reviews?
Hi Steve,
My reviews can be Q&A sessions, students writing down the three most important things we covered in class, or case studies where they use the material we have covered. With each activity they are reviewing what we have covered. I use these reviews throughout the class so they aren't very long. Generally 5-10 minutes. My class runs for 6 hours from 4 until 10 pm so I change the pace of the class frequently to keep the attention of the students. The review sessions are well received by the students because they like to practice using their newly acquired knowledge and/or skills plus they like the variety.
Gary
I usually review not just so students can pass a test, but review important points that they should definitely know. By reviewing key points they are able to better retain what they learned.
Ido a question and answer review,my classes are 6 hrs long.I give them 30 minutes to study,ask questions,ect before the test.If they pay attention in class,sometimes they do not want study time.We go right into the test.
Since I teach IT and it has a lot of certifications needed, I've started incorporating a huge practice test as a review for the final exam. It helps review the information as well as preping them for their certification tests.
Hi Bernie,
This is a great way to help students review plus they can see what they need to work on when it comes to the final exam. This should help them to target their study efforts when they are getting ready to take the final exam.
Gary
After each lecture I review with the students to see how much they retained. I also review before the exam.
I typicaly review after each subject or at least summerize the topic. at the end of the day i go over what we talked about or performed in the lab. we no longer review before each test but i encourage the studnets to go thru their book to refresh what we talked about.
at the start of class i ask the class how did there studying go and if there wore any questions and this will start the review if there are no questions i will ask questions, i will take about 30 min on this
I will use key words & tell students they need to remember them . before a test they are given study time to research the key words
Review is an important daily tool to help the students be learners. This gives the instructor a chance to recap all of the important information and tasks discussed that day. It also gives the students a forum at the end of the day for course content and relevance feedback. We usually spend 15 minutes to 45 minutes a day performing some type of review.
i go back and touch on key points and give them time to ask questions. i alot about 45min
I generally review the previous lesson at the beginning of each class. I spend about 5-10 minutes
reminding my students about what was taught during the last class. I then connect the previous lesson to the lesson of the day .
Hi Gregory,
This is a good strategy to follow as you know based upon the results you are getting from your students. Thank you for sharing this with us as I know it will be of help to other instructors as they decide how much and when to do review.
Gary
Reviews are a vital part of the learning process. Repitition is retention. Students need that reinforcement of the previous days material.
Reviews are a big part of the type of training that we provide the students , when asked to perform tasks in lab it is important to go ahead and make sure that everybody got the job done and also understood their tasks .
We do precourse reviews that take up most of the 6 hour day. After each lab rotation, 4 stations usually, we review all the hands on learnings the student performed for that day, usually about 1 to 2 hour review. Review is a main part of our program.
Hi Errol,
This is a good strategy to help students to pull together the content for the students as a form of summary. This way they can store increased amounts of knowledge in their working memories.
Gary
A typcial review is questions and answer is around 30 minutes depending on the students.
The course is set up with a Prerequisite Review in the beginning that takes about 2 hours. Each day the previous day’s workstations are reviewed taking about 1 ½ hours. This helps the students to know exactly what they should have picked up from the previous day’s lesson.
