I learned the importance of listening to the student, understanding their situations and being able to adapt to their needs in order to best get the instruction through to them. I also learned about diverstiy of culture/background as well as age and their own goals.
I remember when I first atarted nursing school, if the environment of the classroom was off - I did not learn the entire day. I hope to not have my students get upset by things that I should be able to easily control.
Great refresher of what students need are and how we as instructors can assist in meeting those.
Understanding students is important in making sure that the student is retained and is successful.
Theree are many things to take into consideration when takng on the role of an instructor. The factors that affect their lives both in and out of the classroom can steer them in or out of the direction of success. I need to be aware of the environment that they will function in and how it is working for them.
Understanding a student's perspective is essential in improving my ability to a better instruction.
What stands out to me is that it is important to remember that each person will have different reasons for continuing their education. It is also important to try to understand that each comes from varied backgrounds and life experience.
I have learned the importance of getting know your students and their expectations and experiences to better help them learn and meet their goals.
Good information on the differences between adult learners that are changing careers compared to students coming from high school.
Reply to James Trittin's post:
Yes, I believe that a list of students and their attributes, concerns, and goals will only help you as an instructor to keep your students on track.
Reply to Amy Horak's post:
I love getting to know my students and in return, I reveal a bit about myself that way together we personalize the class. This way the class begins as an open forum to reduce fear so that all will be more comfortable to participate.
My biggest take away is investigating each students motivation for taking the course. I have seen many students on the spectrum from fully engaged to apathetic, and had not really considered that this is the underlying reason. I think it is important to ask each student their goal and reason for enrolling, and reminding them of this if they become discouraged.
Knowing the students background and what they can contribute to the class is very important to me. As a facilitator, this will allow me the chance to have interactive discussions with the students and make everyone feel a part of the conversation.
I think that it is interesting to learn more about how to retain students in your classroom and help them to be more successful. I liked hearing about the two different types of learners, non-traditional and traditional, and understanding their perspectives, fears, ect. This section also provided necessary information on how to manage your classroom when dealing with student's frustrations. Students do have frustrations, and when they bring them to the classroom, it interupts their learning. Listening to their frustrations will go along way and then provide direction and advice is a great response. I want to make all my students comfortable and ready to learn. I want them all to be successful.
Learning about my students can assist in how I prepare to teach the students and increase the opportunties to link the content with their lives
What I gathered from this Module is that all students are different. Don't think you can just prepare a lesson and everyone will understand, retain and learn it totally differently. I learned one needs to be prepared to think outside of the perverbial teaching platform box.
Students are driven to be successful for a number of reasons. They want to succeed and, in an ideal world, they would. The reality is that in spite of their desire to succeed and the best intentions, events occur that serve to diminish their intrinsic desire for career training. As an instructor, this list can give you a starting point from which you can develop learning opportunities that will help the students get over troublesome situations that might cause a shift in intrinsic priorities leading to program departure.
From this section I learned more about our students and who they are. The most interesting part fo rme was the student's fear, specifically that they were concerned their peers would look at them as not being successful. In the 'online' classroom it's easy to forget the peer to peer social fears that students still feel.
I liked the idea of having bio cards on students to see how their life experiences can be woven into the lesson(s). Also, increasing intrinsic motivation for library instruction is important so they get the most out of the time. Maybe I can ask students to complete a Poll Everywhere question prior to the instruction.
Understanding of student support & being there to listen to their fustrations. Learn how to not let their fustrations escalte by setting rules.
