When instructing courses one must ensure that all learnering preferences are utilized to provide a well rounded experience for all students. Therefore, a combination of all deliver methods would be best to ensure that various learner preferences are used to deliver and allow comprehension of all learn styles.
Hi Susan,
Sounds like this is a fun and rewarding course to teach. The students are motivated and focused during each session. Keep up the good work.
Gary
Hi Michele,
You are doing a great job of integrating the different learning styles with the methods you are using. The use of role-play is a great way to involve the motion aspect of learning as a part of cognitive processing. In a similar course we have used minute plays where students act out a concept from the course content and the students try to identify what that concept is. They are with this method demonstrating the concept through actions.
Gary
Most of my instruction is tactile. Our facility trains students for medical assisting positions therefore the clinical laboratory classes are very exciting and the students seem engaged 99% of the time. This type of class makes for a very stimulating class and time goes by quickly.
I am a firm believer in making course content relevant to future employment of students. However, as a algebra instructor, my frustration with the provided textbook and expectations of the course do not provide appropriate "real life" exercises? I would appreciate some direction of how to accomplish this task.
Ron
It is essential that learning preferences are considered in deliver to ensure that all learning types are provided the same opportunity to retain the information. This ensures that are students are given the same opportunity for learning
I have found it relatively easy to accommodate most learning styles through many of the ideas listed in this forum. However, tailoring law courses to the kinesthetic learner has been a bit more difficult. I have used role-play as often as possible to allow students to present different arguments/positions. I would love learn any other techniques for incorporating demonstration into law courses.
Hi Suzanne,
To help you with your development of online teaching expertise we are bringing out a series of courses designed solely for online instructors. We currently have EL 101-102-103 available. EL 104-105-106 the last three courses in the sequence will be coming online this fall. Have a look at them. I think you will like the content that they cover.
Gary
This sounds very encouraging to me.
Suzanne
I love incorporating economics into business courses. I follow the media and I challenge my students to stay on top of so many timely topics.
Suzanne
I am a late-comer to online teaching. I have held back since I love interacting with my students in a ground class. However, online courses are the wave of the future. I want my courses to be interactive and fun and I believe that this is going to be a big challenge for me in this model.
Suzanne
I would think that the courses you are teaching online would be very challenging for your students. I agree that you should have your students read local or national articles relevant to your discussion and post online. I have enjoyed my courses when we have done this.
I agree especially with the part about incorporating technology into the curriculum.
taking student surveys to determine the viability of content.
The beauty of my field (Massage Therapy)is that we ultimately cover all learning styles. Via the lecture, hands on, reading, muscle charts, etc. We also will take one concept and learn it in many ways...take the muscles of the neck for example...we will lecture on what they are, the student will study them and read about them at home for homework, we then put our hands on them by physically working the muscles, we also have many charts and diagrams. So our students get a very comprehensive understanding of what they are learning.
I am a new instructor and my dean of faculty recommended I do the following exercise in class. I asked my students what I should start, stop, and continue doing in class. I found out that I was accomodating most of my students, but some wanted the lectures to contain more visual aids. I incorporated that into my lectures and it really seemed to help.
I am also fortunate that my class was very hands on and the students enjoyed learning that way.
I did like the post on guided reading and I plan to incorporate this into my teaching next quarter.
I use various media clips and documentaries to illustrate the concepts. This has worked well for me, especially when teaching adult learners in an accelerated program, with four hour class sessions.
Marilyn
Hi Stephanie,
Good points. Sounds like you work very hard to get your students engaged and focused on developing their communication skills. Teaching these foundational courses can be a challenge but with a creative approach the students learn much while enjoying their class time.
Gary
When I was delivering the course content to seasoned or nurses-it was with case scenarios, and lecture involving power-point presentations and class interaction. I am assuming that this is going to have to be modified for the beginner students in the field of nursing. I will spoon feed when needed with a zest of challenging flavor so as to stretch them into accomplishment.
We have practiced breaking the procedural steps and taking each technique one at a time. In the kitchens, each step is demonstrated and reviewed with students taking notes and then they too repeat the same procedure in class. This makes the course content relevant to each student. Allowing the students to repeat what was demoed is a great learning style and has proven to be very effective.
