Get Your Students Hired
I like to provide a lot of real world examples and have them complete assignments applying theories to their own lives so that they can understand and retain learned information.
By getting my students involved in the class discussions. Using different media to illustrate the topics being covered.
During the first class time going over the syllabus and discussing the goals, topics and objectives that will be covered
All of the courses that I am teaching this term are directly related to job competencies in the field. I think that I will ask the students to tell me how they think the class will help them in their future careers to generate group discussion.
ways i can show relevancy of our science courses is to find practical ways to weave into our classes daily opportunities to demonstrate how these foundational classes can be built upon to secure a future in healthcare no matter the field chosen to culminate their education.
This is very important so students know what to expect from the class; what the objectives are.
Hi Anne,
Absolutely! Students understand the importance when they know how the course affects them in the workplace.
Patricia Scales
Students need to know that the course is relevant to their workplace in the "real world." Discussing it in class and revealing scenarios where they will encounter this in the workplace will make them understand the importance of the subject matter.
Hi James,
When you make learning apply to the real world students understand the relevancy of the course.
Patricia Scales
I think the most relevant way is to take their experiences and tie them in.. For example in a sales class one of my students manages a restaurant, so I talk about how a server is a sales person -selling drinks, upselling meals, encouraging desserts. These tie well for my students.
Hi Zane,
I concur! Excitement starts with the instructor, and it can certainly spread to the students. Let's get excited about our subject matter that we are teaching.
Patricia Scales
Hi Deb,
It is important to make it known to students how the information is going to benefit them on the job.
Patricia Scales
I believe that if you have passion for the content and you show that not only is it relevant to their career, but can change their lives and thinking, they will begin to see the topics through your eyes. I firmly contest that any student can fall in love with literature or math or philosophy if they have an instructor who shows what the love of that course can do for their lives.
By describing recent legal developments, cases, or career options that are available to the student within this subject area.
I like to ask students before starting a topic what they know about the subject, and what they would like to learn. I then acknowledge each student, and expound on what they express. I then tell them how and why this will apply to them on their externship, and in the working world.
For example, I can tell the students that they need to learn the primal cuts of animals in order to properly place and receive food orders from future food vendors that they will deal with when they are on the job in this industry.
Hi Stephanie,
When you bring in classified ads as they apply to the skill set being learned in the class, you gain instant buy in from students.
Patricia Scales
Hi Christopher,
Students enjoy hearing about stories as they apply to the real world. Experience truly is the best teacher.
Patricia Scales
Showing examples of when the skills and/or knowledge are used on the job is most beneficial to students.Providing students with job descriptions of actual jobs that require the skills and/or knowledge being taught in the course gives them the opportunity to see the importance of doing well in the class so they can be successful in the work world.