keeping to a lesson
When you have holidays or long weekends and say you normally have 5 days to cover a subject now you have 4. What's the best way to get that information into you class without boring your students?
Christine,
This adaptation based upon schedule changes or upcoming holidays is a good one. Your students still get the needed content but they get it in an alternative format and you keep the class moving forward.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
This becomes difficult where I work also. I teach evening classes 4 days a week, 4 hrs a night. When an approaching Holiday (or whatever) threatens my schedule, I accomodate it by creating a "highlighted" outline of the chapters I may not be able to spend a lot of time on.
In order to cover all the material I try and plan for days off such as holidays, etc. . I evaluate each chapter for length and content and plan to cover a specified number of chapters per class. I find on average I need to cover at least a chapter and a half each class leaving time for discussion, in class projects etc. If I can cover that amount of material each class I usually stay on track.
Jarred,
During these times of instructional compression I use guided notes. With guided notes I can list the key concepts along with supporting points under each concept. I leave blanks for the students to fill in the outlines so they are involved in note taking. By using this method I can speed up the process of getting through the material and at the end of the session I know the students are taking away the key concepts since I will have given them to them with the outline.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
