Training Aids in the Classroom
In order to have good preps for your class, I fill the good training aids in the classroom is a good key to helping students undertand the subjects better. Students will have tendencies to ask questions to aid them in undertanding what is being taught and the ycan and will retain more information. At times expalining how the training functions with the subject gives a student a more broader prespective idea on how it works.
Gary, any further suggestions? Thanks Sharon
Hi Sharon,
Thank you for sharing your perspectives and different strategies for working with diverse student populations. I know these will be of benefit to the different instructors as they plan for and provide instruction.
Gary
Response to Michael
In teaching crime scene, I always begin with a power point presentation and then I have students in the lab putting those techniques to work. How else can we truly grasp the technique if we don't put it in action. I try and use this in every topic I teach so that I can understand if students are learning the techniques or concepts. Many students learn better by visual aids and hands on, so why not employ this to all. Sharon
Response to David, the use of lab assignments, team projects and mock type situations gives the students the hands on they may be needing to grasp the knowledge. It does seem to help students gain the material by applying it to played out scenarios. It also involves all of them instead of having them sit behind a desk. We need to be open to applying any and all techniques in order to give each student what they need. Sharon
Response to Wilmer, I agree that today's student is one of hands on. We as instructors need to realize that students are all different. We need to provide different teaching tools in order to encapsulate the individual student types and be able to touch base with all of them. Some students may be more interactive than others. Visual aids, displays and media allow us to reach out to all of them. Sharon
Response to James and all
I agree that training aids are critical to student success. I like handouts and power points to provide not only a different forum for engaging students in learning course content, but it helps to change things up. This prevents boredom and if I want to know if the student is learning, handouts and interaction allows me to gauge their progress. Sharon
I agree and I make sure my trainniong aids are ready the day before and if I have a bad trainning aid I would have students get involved and fix them and I found by doing this they love it. face it they come here for hands on and to learn.
I try to have several different examples of the same thing to pass around so that they can see the differences. I prefer to pass around new parts unless I am cutting them apart then I use old parts. I have been cutting things apart to give them a different view of how it works or what is inside and I just filled one with resin so they can see through it but it can't get damaged. This also adds to the questions and their learning experience. The students seem to stay more involved in the class if you pass things around and they can interact about them.
Thanks for your comments, Bob! Training aids can be very helpful as they can also stimulate creativity and problem-solving if used in the right way.
Jay Hollowell
MaxKnowledge/CEE
Sometime having training aids in the class will peak their curiousity and they will ask questions about somethindg which can lead into a discussion about that or something that that aid can be used for. If nothing else it is something for those who like to tinker with something to figure out.
I believe you have hit the nail squarely on the head. Teaching our curiculum using primarily lecture and powerpoint teaches to the smallest segment of learners in our student body. Our students learn by hands-on experience. The more often I get things into my students hands to suplement lecture and powerpoint, the smoother things go when we finally get into lab.
Before the class starts,put enough parts on they're desks for all to pick up and investigate.It keeps they're minds stimulated.During lecture ask who has a particular part.It's almost an exciting game for them to see who has what your talking about.What do you think about worn or major damage to parts versus new.I think the student stays more focused if the parts are damaged.I can always compare to new.
Frank, that is great. I'd really like to see that sometime!
I like to pass parts around that are worn-out or broken this way
The student can learn what to look for in the when working in a shop
I agree. Being able to show the students how one of there tasks in lab will be performed first with the use of a prop makes for a much better understanding before entering the shop.
In teaching a hydraulics class I have a training board in my classroom to model some of the exercises they will be doing or demonstrating a concept that without the aid would be limited in understanding by them. It really helps to be able to reinforce what you are trying to say by demonstrating the concelt for them to see and model.
Passing the parts arround the room while talking about them keeps the students involved and more likely to retain information related to the topic.
Having training aids in the classroom can really help to motivate the class. Most of our students are hands on type learners and visually seeing a part really helps them to understand how it works.
Being able to show the students as well as inform them helps them to not just know but to understand.
