Hi David - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using an excellent mix of delivery options! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
With the recent change in our social structure that incorporates the use of streaming information, I have a preference toward video introductions. Which is to say, I have found it useful to use a video to demonstrate a skill and then follow up with verbal instruction, written handouts and finally practical demonstration. This tends to incorporate all modalities, and I have found good response from the visual learners (as well as auditory) to the videos.
Hi Fallon, Thanks for your post to the forum. Using the ppts notes pages as handouts is excellent! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi David, That is an excellent idea!! Some of us have interactive whiteboards but your idea works really well also. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I also prefer powerpoint presentations! I like to print out the entire powerpoint presentation and use as a handout so the students can highlight the areas they would like to focus on, along with making their own notes. This way they aren't just taking notes the whole time and can focus on what I'm saying. I also like to come up with different real life examples and pictures of how the content will be related to the field to which they are studying.
I prefer to project my power point on the white board instead of a screen. This gives me the opportunity to expand on pictures using my white board markers. I also like to print out and hand out to my class those pages that I will be filling in so they can follow along and duplicate my drawing and end up with their own copy of the discussion to keep with their course material or for reference later on.
Hi Mauricio, Thanks for your post to the forum. That is an excellent practice! The more we can get our students to apply what they are learning, the better they retain the information. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
PPT's seem to work very well for the students. However, I rather have them review them on their own and bring case studies based on those PPT's to engage them into critical thinking
Hi Donald,
Wow - that is an impressive body of experience!! You must have thousands of students that have benefited from your able instruction!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Hi Robert, Thanks for your post to the forum. i agree completely - variety is important! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
I have been a welding instructor for over forty years. Hand and eye is very important in my field.No two students skill level is the same in welding. Fifty percent is visual and the other is hands on. My strategies for visual is to take it in from watching and to bring it out to his hands by doing.
I believe that I would be correct if I stated that using Power Point would be a strategy for visual learners. However, in my experience I find it important to “change it upâ€, by switching to newsprint for example
Hi Jason, Would videos be applicable to what you teach? You Tube has millions of them and I use them in all my online classes, but they would work on ground as well. Susan
Susan Polick
