Life Experieces
Life experiences: By using life experiences in the class room, the students will validate information by other student’s life experiences. When you have one student agreeing with the instructor or professor then more of the students start to follow along better.
I have noticed real life examples work extremely well in my field of education. Simply put the students a striving to be were I already was. My experiences keep their interest and motivate to achieve the same success theri instructor had.
Very good point. I might also add that drawing on successful life skills that students have honed that can be transferred to their career can be very motivational.
If you use life experiences students will feel more confident in you that you really know what your talking about and trust you more.
There are so many ways an instructor can get their message across to the audience. I am very animated, moving around, mixing amusing ancedotes into the lecture and changing my voice inflections. One of the really neat things that I do and am getting good with, is being the master of the pause. Paul Harvey was a broadcaster and was the master of the pause. When used effectively, it has the students on the edge of their seats anticipating the next vowel,word or sentence.I rarely have a sleepy student when you move around the room when pulling out all the tricks in the instructional "bag". It is pretty neat and I enjoy what I do.
Hi David!
What an interesting analogy! I couldn't agree more that instructors/teachers bring life to the materials.
I would love to hear some of the creative ways that you share information in your classroom.
Good job!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
Life experiances are one of the most important teaching tools that I use. Students can read a book, observe a power point, but I bring relevance,history, stories and the "done that, been there" to the material. If a southwestern desert snake could read, and we had the ability to understand what it was saying, we wouldn't need teachers! We bring life to the material!!
I agree. This sharing is most beneficial when the class is made up of traditional/non-traditional students. As instructor, I share with class and it seems to help students relax and feel more willing and confident to share themselves.
Sharing life experiences is a great state change during your presentation.
their is no better teach then life experieces
to help valadate the lessons being thought.
I couldn't agree more. I always start a new class by asking who is already working in the field that we are teaching. I then use these students to validate some of the topics we are covering. By using terms like. " youv'e seen this at work haven't you" or how many times has this happened to you at work?". Once the student agrees with you the rest of the class has a stronger desire to believe you.
My career prior to becoming an instructor is always positive for students at start of term. They have watch some of the movies when they were kids and I relate some trials I went through in order to stay in that industry.
This relaxes them and gives them alot of motivation to begin the class and want to learn from me. Any preconceived notions pretty much go.
There are times when the person with life experience proves to be the more reliable worker. He can "pull" parallels from his varied experience and apply it to solving a problem.
In order to compensate for deficiencies in reading, etc., he may have developed keener observational skills and is much more apt to using common sense and not relying on book sense.
For an adult learner who wants to share life experiences it can build confidence with the change of career. Going back to school can be scary especially if times have changed. The experiences can even be an advantage by applying his knowledge from this to what the student is going to learn.
Life experiencies, some times i will have a student who will have some real life experiences that will relate to the subject being covered, at which time i'll ask the student about the experience and relate it to the class so the student can see even though their still in school some of their peers have experienced the same situation, then they can learn also.
Greetings Richard!
Education is more than being in a classroom and book study. Being able to blend life experiences with classroom learning is a key to job successes.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
