This course has provided me with an understanding of key fundamental practices that facilitate effective content delivery to maximize learning (e.g., Knowing yourself as well as your students, time management, and providing necessary resources). Some key take-aways that I plan to utilize include;
1. Student introductions and the use of pretests to gage their experience, knowledge, and learning style.
2. Planning accordingly to meet teaching timelines
3. Ensuring that I provide the necessary resources and training material.
Understanding your audience and being prepared with your material are keys to success
Oof! I wished I had know about time compression early on! I'm much better with it now, but my first semester was a real struggle to keep my class from running short. I found the overarching concept of "knowing your audience" very helpful. I'll be using pretests for my more introductory courses this fall, and hopefully be able to adjust my lesson plan as we go.
Plan appropriately for your classtime and engage with your students to know how they learn
Good lesson planning is like preparing a good meal. make the customer come back again.
i have been teaching for 4 years and i learned from some mistakes , it will happen or a lesson plan not going well, i learned to have other plans in place for time compression or if the current lesson plan is not welll received.
plan content with time management. Have backup material such as the internet and other refrences to go over material.
time management plan what ot do if the lesson material is completed before the class is over (compression factor)
Plan for time compression.
I learned that getting to know your students helps with lesson planning. I plan to utilize some of the questions to ask in order to know the students background and gain insight into what they alreasy know. I was doing this before, but did not know how important it was in lesson planning.
Its important to get to know students during course preparation. This will allow the instructor to adjust lesson plans as needed.
Understanding your environment and students will play a great role in your teaching. Dependent on what the students backgrounds are and their capability will help plan for a successful course. Especially during the COVID times, we, as instructors, need to know and understand the students capabilities within themselves and their technology, to understand how to adapt and teach as needed in order to be successful.
Be ready and prepared to teach
Take time to know your strengths and weaknesses to allow yourself time to know what your lesson plan will be.
Although flexibility is important for an instructor, the most important resource is the WHY. Finding out why the student is taking the course will give you an idea where they are in the learning scape.
Get to know your students, connect. Gain an understanding of their knowledge base. Remember to create contingencies before hand for classes that end up needing more or less content.
I've learned that it can benefit me in the classroom to get to know the student. Knowledge of the students can help me better prepare in the details of the content I am teaching, how much time needs to be spent of a specific topic, and how I can utilize the more advanced student to help with the instruction to other students.
I learned that I need to get to know my students better to be a more effective instructor. I also have a strategy to account for time compression. I have three types of information that I deliver to students on a specific topic; Need to know, should know, and nice to know. Need to know information is the most important, and is the whole purpose for the lesson. If I need to fill in time, I go to things that are not neccesary but related. And if I still need to fill in time, I go with the items that are nice to know about the topic.
Lessons plans should guide and inform your instruction. At my last school, when I was new to teaching and inexperienced, lesson plans were created AFTER the class as a way to show what was taught. That never made sense to me and was only busy work. Lesson plans need to be created prior to class and should be a map and a guide.
Ensure that you have additional material to use if class goes too quickly & remember to start where you left off if you can't finished as planned.
Know yourself
Use variety in resources and Assessment strategies.
