I have found to keep a student's interest you need to vary your style of instructing. I generally will do a mini lecture and then we move onto a different format, doing hands on from our books or I will give the students a few questions that I have put together on a hand out sheet and give them time to write a few words on how this question applies to my lecture. It gives me the needed feed back that the students are understanding what I am trying to deliver to them.
It is important to vary delivery styles, because each students does not learn the same. Changes in classroom settings are good and it breaks the same style apart and refresh the mind to thinking differently. Variety is good for the teacher as well, sometimes we learn that our way of doing things are not the only way of completing tasks. The other way brings some difference to the class and everyone will benefit from that, no matter the learning style.
It is important to offer a variety of instructional delivery methods to keep the interest of the class and to reach many learning styles reflected in a classroom of students. When one teaches the exact same way each and every day, students seem to become less interested and one can lose their attention.
Hi Zulema,
Good use of current events for your classes. With all that is going on today you certainly have plenty of material to discuss with your students.
Gary
Because after Instructor identified student's need, they should combine diferents ways to deliver the knowledge, engaging their students with the assignements and helping them to achieve the assignment's goals.
Judith I also allow the students to critic my teaching style. This allows me to reflect on my progress and adjust the course to reflect the changing needs of the students.
I follow the local and national criminal cases so I can incorporate them into my lectures to keep the students engaged and giving examples of legal concepts.
I feel it helps the students understand difficult legal concepts and how they apply to society.
Using a vary of teaching methods addresses the needs of all the students in class. Everybody learns, processes information and implement ideas in different ways. Using different teaching styles addresses this differences in the learning process.
It is important to vary your delivery methods in order to keep the interest of your students. Everyone will get bored with the topics if the same things are done every lecture period. Variety will peak the interest of the students and make them not want to miss a single class with you.
Hi Dr. Meers,
It is important to vary our delivery because each student is differently. Additionally, each student may learn differently in different environments or with differing subjects.
The course material (Dr. Stevenon's video) provided a good example of how a lecture may not be the best place to teach how to serve in tennis-- it is probably better to demonstrate and allow the student to practice. So instructors must be careful to ensure that a course is a mix of lecture, activities, lab, field experience (trips), etc. This will allow each student a multitude of modalities covering the same material.
cheers, mj
Each person has his or her own learning style, it is therefore proper to use varied instructional delivery.
Providing different types of instructional delivery will allow each student an opportunity to have a "light bulb" moment. We use Turning Point, which is a software that allows the students to participate without publicly paricipating. I had a student that came to me after class and say that she has had a learning disability all of her educational life, and if this had been used, she felt she would have been more successful! Those are the students we want to reach as much as the ones that can easily digest information.
Shelle Ridings
The adult learners I work with have different learning styles and most have styles that are different from my own. I am primarily an auditory learner, where most of my students are visual learners, which I am decidedly not. To most effectively reach my learners and keep them engaged, I have found it critical to present materials and content in a variety of ways. The feedback I have received, shows that this is definitely appreciated.
I think it is important to offer different instructional delivery so that every student's learning abilities is addressed. I am a visual learner and I am more apt to teach that way. However; when you have auditory learners they like to take notes with lecture. I try to incorporate that by using power points and by using notes as well at the same time.
Varying my instructional methods has helped me to be successful in delivering an Ultrasound Physics course. It is difficult to provide real world examples related to a topic that cannot be seen nor heard. I use lectures to describe the parts of the sound wave and then have found a great amount of success playing a Guitar while wearing a cap that reads "over the hill hippie" which has a silver poneytail connected at it's rear to illustrate the points. Just this site alone reduces the tension in the classroom and when I follow up with a discussion on transducers the students develope a real word appreciation of a device which changes one form of energy into another "a transducer".
its important to use different instructional materials because students learn in different way. and we should utilized different methods of teaching in order to enhance students learning.
Every student has their own learning style. As an instructor it is my job to make sure that all students have the opportunity to learn. Varying instructional methods ensures that I teach to each style and that all students have an equal opportunity to succeed.
Hi Lynn,
Great to hear. Have fun with your creative planning as you look for ways to keep your students engaged and focused in the course.
Gary
It is important to offer a vriety of instructional delivery methods in class to make each lecture intresting.Different subjects need different style to make it more clear.Since in a class there are variety of students some can grasp better with one style while others may like another style.
Saroj Patel
I understand that. I am very much a book-learner and have a difficult time with diversifying the delivery of material and having creative activities to students engaged and focused. This type of professional development has a tendency to light a fire under me to be more creative.
