Hi Galit- Welcome to ED 103! Your teaching reinforces the behaviors/skills that your students will have to use on a daily basis in the workplace -great work!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and Happy New Year! Susan
Hi Karen- Welcome to ED 103! Sequential questioning not only helps us to assess understansing as you mention, but it also serves to help students "connect the dots". The student may sometimes have grasped part of a process or concept but does not yet have the full picture. Sequential questioning can help with that. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and Happy New Year! Susan
I like to use sequential questioning also to determine the level of understanding the student has....I make it a non threatening type of questioning and do it often so students are used to it as part of their learning.
I asked the student "When you give this kind of medication, what are some side effects that may occur that you need to look for?"
Also when a student pull blood pressure medication I ask the student " What is this medication for" When they answer "Its to reduce blood pressure" I ask "When did youlast check the patient blood pessure" I tell them that 30 minutes prior to blood pressure administrating its okay to relay on the blood pressure.
To get students to participate I often allow a few minutes at the end of every lecture and before the beginning of lab time: I structure my class so that at the end of lecture they have a chance to apply what they have learned. Most students learn best when they can put what they have just heard into application. Therefore, allowing them the opportunity to ask questions before they work on their handouts/worksheets helps get the students involved and ready for what we are about to do next. Also, I like to end my class a minute or two early so that I allow them time to ask questions on what we learned that day.
HI Gerald- Thanks for your post to the forum! As tough as it may seem sometimes, we have to do our best to get our students ready to be successful in the workplace. So, as you point out, we have to sometimes push them to participate. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and all the best in 2010! Susan
Hi Amy - From your posts to the forums I see that you run a very interactive classroom - excellent work! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and all the best in 2010! Susan
HI Laurie- Welcome to ED 103! Thank you for a very useful post. You point out that at times, especially when you are asking your students to take the active role in the classroom, it makes sense to "retire" temporarily and let them take things over for a while. Excellent! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and all the best in 2010. Susan
Hi Deborah- Welcome to ED 103! I think that's a great way to get students to participate. They can learn from your own experience and by assessing themselves learn how they think they can improve. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career and all the best in 2010!
Share some of my experience and ask how did they think they handled it?
Use real life experience questions when teaching therefore the "book" facts and real facts will get the student more actively involved.
In a College Sucess course that I taught in the past, there were discussion questions for the students to participate in as a group. I would ask if any student would like to read the discussion question to the others in the class. I am happy to say that I have never had anyone not want to read the question. Instead of standing in front of the class, I would sit down in different parts of the classroom on different days. I don't know for sure but I think that this learning strategy of sitting down with them in a group really helped the students to open up and share. We always had some great discussions too.
I usually have a Q and A prior to handing out an assessment. This gives me a window of student's knowledge and aids the student in receiving a good grade on the assessment.
I use questions to reinforce information exposed in prior chapters to keep the knowledge in the forefront of the memory.
I really like the use of questioning in my classroom. I usually start with scanerio questions and behavioral questioning techniques. This tends to open the class up and encourages them to ask questions. Sometimes if a student asks a question I ask the class what they think the answer is or should be and then we can start a discussion dialogue from there.
Amy Rogers
I tell the students that the final grade is dependent upon participation. All the students know that if they don't participate at least once per class, I will call on them. If a student doesn't participate, at the next class one on one I will remind them that it is a significance part of their grade and ask them how I can help them in the classroom.
I pose an open question about the topic and this is where has to participate because I grade them on class participation
Susan,
I start my classes with current events in the business world based on the topic or objective for the specific course. I use open-ended questions as well as share different examples on what I have read within the past day or so.
Amir
I sometimes go over questions found at the end of a chapter before I give the lecture for that chapter. This way the students know what information is the most important from that lecture when I come across it.
I also will divide the class into teams so they can consult with each other before answering a question to help take away the fear of being the only one who gave a wrong answer.
I ask constant questions from demonstrations I give in class to make sure the students grasped what I demonstrated.
I have found that aa open-ended question is good and when asking a student a question if they don't know the answer ask if someone could help with the answer. That way it takes the presure of the other student.
