Hi Sandy - thanks for your post to the forum. You zare encouraging your students to be actively involved in their learning - excellent! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I have the students work in teams to complete exercises or problems and explain the process of finding the solution on the whiteboard to their classmates.
In one form or another I have found that the CATs are really valuable in order to build a solid foundation for learning and rapport between students and teachers. This way we all can continue learning and truly enjoying the process.
One may use the CATs in the beginning of class to see the picture of what a student knows before and how the student has progressed after. Using the CAT to let the student write down what questions he would like to learn before the course ensure the question is addressed during the course and give the student back the CAT near the end and determine if the student was able to answer their own question. This works!!
Hi Joan - Thanks for your post to the forum. I'm glad that you found the "punctuated lecture" idea useful! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Teaching a long class session can be tiresome for me as the instructor but it is also tiring for the students unless there are breaks in the action. Short "punctuated lectures" could be meaningful while providing a break from the class. I think these will be very useful to me.
Hi Larry- Thanks for your post to the forum. Your comment about giving feedback is so important. Students will not benefit from an assessment unless they understand what they did not comprehend. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
The objective is to provide students an opportunity to express how well they are learning material or it can be an opportunity to measure how well you as the instructor is presenting the material. With that in mind, students should be given feedback by revisiting material that was not comprehended.
Hi Tami - thanks for your post to the forum. Being able to assess students while they are in lab is terrific! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi David- Thanks for your post to the forum. Relating skill performance to the concepts that your students have learned is ideal! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Laura- Thanks for your post to the forum. The
interactive ideas that you are using in your classroom are excellent!! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
As they perform skills you can reveiw why you perform those skills a certain way to reinforce the methods.
I have lecture classes (no labs) but I do bring in real life examples of how what they are learning applies to everyday life. I also have guest speakers to come in to class and give the students real life examples and situations they may come across in their professional career.
Lab time is very exciting for the students so it makes this technique very easy to incoorporate in class. The students love this part of their education
Hi Wendy - Yes, our own observations are often the best assessment we can have! Susan
Unknowingly I do use CATs when my students move into the lab setting. The students can see how class time and lecture time all comes together once you move to the hands on and requirement of applying your knowlegde to hands on environment. I see what they have learned and they in turn see how well I have taught them.
In my labs I have always apply real life situations to the problems the students are facing /resolving when they come into issues that challenges their thought process. The students assessing the issue and learned information and applying it effectively routinely updates me on their learning process. I reveiw with the student how effective their problems solving capabilies were and what more is available to them.
this gives the student participant the chance to become an active participant in their learning objectives. i would use this as a team project so that student's collaborate and work together in acheiving their optimum educational goals
I will pull a quiz off of the NCLEX and give it to students to do individually, and then to turn in. This gives me an opportunity to see if they were paying attention, or not, or if we need to discuss a topic further.
Hi Doug - Thanks for your post to the forum. I'm glad that you have gotten some good ideas for using CATs - you will get a lot of valuable feedback! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
