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I have used scenarios for meaning of words and looked up the word in front of the class on my power point chats
Daisey , thank you so much for sharing your creative idea. It means so much when we see our methods help students retain and remember.
Michele Deck
I have gone so far as to bringing out my electronic keyboard/piano and making a song out of medical terminology on the reproductive system. It was just off the top of my head, ad-libbed it and very entertaining. The students retained the information and all did very well on the quiz for that day. I try to think outside of the box most of the times when I'm teaching. Keeps the students engaged and entertained.
I use the word searches as directed after faster learners are done with a lesson or test and it seem that everyone wants to try to work faster so they can get the to them and their grades have also gotten better. Those things really work
I've decided my classroom into teams and tested their prefixes and suffixes. It was fun and they learned sooooooooo much.
later on if there is another class where there might be a new medical term they haven't quite figured out, they love the challenge to figure it out.
I agree A & P can't be taught without medical terminiology. The usage of games and puzzles reinforces the learning experience
Medical Terminology is the basis for all medical professionals, one must have a working knowledge of each word in order to understand its meaning.
I agree, whether the student is young or old, from different backgrounds, once they get involved in playing games in class that's related to their learning, they seem to take the inital step in trying to do better on their exams. Games seem to help them see that the subject is not as boring as they thought and the terms are not that hard to understand.
I encourage my students to associate the medical term with something in their lives, that way they will be more apt to remember the medical term.
Any time you get the students involved in learning the better they will do and remember the material.
I've got a group activity that I usually do the first day of my class, I pass a worksheet to each group that has medical definitions on it. Each group also gets a stack of index cards. Each index card has a different word part & its definition on it. The students are told to find the word parts that go with each definition & then use the rules we discussed in class to combine the parts and make a whole word out of them.
I have done this too. The students seen to like it if you play games. They tend to do better on the test or quizes too.
Jacci Brown
Tying the word part to something familiar is a way to increase the confidence students feel in learning terminology course. Keep up the good work!
When learning word parts I have the student think of a common term that may contain the word part. An example would be -rrhea once people think of the common term such as diarrhea they usually don't forget it as abnormal flow.