Get Your Students Hired
Empowerment results when individuals feel they are a part of the decision-making process and have a role to play in creating a future for themselves. I will provide opportunities to have students in the process.
If the student is empowered, they will take their studies more seriously. The student needs to see that they are in the driver's seat of their education.
Collaborative and self learning have to be part of the curriculum for students to maintain motivation. Also, that the students should have their own course goals, not just the course goals or objectives from the instructor.
Learning students names and always greet them with respect is a trust influenced action.
I find student feedback regarding the courses I teach can be very helpful in improving the course delivery. I have also learned that each class is differnt and that we as instructors need to get to know our class personality and ability to learn. We can use this information early on in the course which can help the class be more successful.
Group learning can be invaluable as students get to experience many points of view rather than just their own. This promotes greater interaction.
I enjoy asking questions to the students to get them actively involved. Receiving their input, makes them feel more empowered during the conversation.
Meaningful student involvement assits the students to believe that they are valued members of the class which increases their self-confidence and encourages motivation.
It is important to encourage student empowerment so they become more engaged in the learning process.
I learned that learning groups is a great way to expand learning in the classroom as well as in the clinical setting so students are engaged and encouraged. I will use this method.
I like the idea of presenting students with a short-term and long-term vision for their library orientation. Short-term are things I want students to understand by the time the hour long instruction is over. These would be lower on Bloom's taxonomy. For example, what type of information do databases contain? How do you log into the library? Which library guide do you need to visit to learn more about VitalSource electronic textbooks? How can you contact an ECPI University librarian?
A long-term vision would be goals I have for after they have applied and practiced what they learned from the library instruction. For example, students will find ___ peer-reviewed sources for their end of term paper/project? Students will know how to reference a journal article and a book. Students will apply the limits explained in an assignment guideline to the search limits in order to retrieve relevant results.
I would also be interested in these from students. What do they hope to get now out of today's session (short-term vision)? What do they hope to obtain later after applying what they have learned in today's session (long-term vision)?
This will help students see the applicability of the library instruction and it will prime their thinking to be within the framework of information literacy. They will start thinking of research as a process, rather than simply a means to an end (gathering a book/article in order to write a paper). By bringing to light the nuances of research, students will learn it is a complex process. They may feel more empowered to keep trying with a search, rather than feel like there is "nothing" on their topic, if they understand searching as an interative process that needs continual assessment and refinement.
Even if when students are not doing well they need to be shown that they are valued as human beings and that their instructor is there to help them to be successful. Positive body language and facial expression can go a long way in showing support to students especially when they need some encouragement.
Courtesy Respect Rapport Technology must be practiced and applied for student learning success.
No matter how experienced an educator is, it is always good to look at the instructional process and see where changes can be made that will increase the learning factor for students.
Effecivie listening gives the students a sense that there thought are values and give the instructor knowledge of what the students needs.
One of the simplest ways to empower students is by encouraging leadership behaviors. Provide ample opportunity for students to take charge, whether that’s through group activities or explaining a concept they’ve grasped to the rest of the class.