sharing success stories, and defeats!
I use a lot of stories during my lectures (culinary) I noticed the ones that catch my student's attention the most, are the ones where I share my mistakes and defeats, it keeps everything in perspective, and emphasizes the growing curve we all go thru in our careers.
Hi Edward,
Great. When students can relate theory to practical applications in their work setting, they're bound to be more attentive, focused, and retain more necessary course material.
Barry Westling
I'm a Registered Respiratory Therapist teaching general education courses [Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Critical Thinking and Sociology]. I teach both registered nursing students and respiratory therapy students. In each of the courses I try to provide examples of how the material will be helpful, relevant in their future clinical practice.
An example: in Introduction to Psychology we consider "consciousness." In that chapter we talk about brain waves and then the various levels of loss of consciousness when sleeping and under anesthesia. It also affords a discussion on sleep studies and sleep disorders as well as talking about polysomnography as a specialty practice for respiratory therapists.
Hi Troy:
Great! Situations and stories student can relate to are sometimes the most m,emorable thing a students recalls from a class. Socrates told stories. Bill Cosby told stories, and made a career from it. The key is to make sure there's a tie in to the topic o0r subject matter, interesting, not offensive, even self deprecvation is OK in small doses. Revealing that we're all human can be effective in conveying a message.
Barry Westling
Not only do I share success stories, I share the stories of failure that lead to success. This is a great break from the Instructor Lecture Time. It allows me to share how I learned from the failures, became humbled by the failures, and how NOT to make the same mistake twice. Some of these stories are downright funny and the students enjoy them and learn from them.
Hi Cristian:
This is great! Students really remember stories especially ones that are particularly dramatic or eventful, and relate to the career area of training. They remember, so tying these in with the lesson helps retain lesson essentials.
Regards, Barry
