Getting Students Involved
Teaching styles change quite a bit and adapting to your students' different styles makes a great impact on them.
Hi Natalie, Thanks for your post to the forum. I agree that it would be ideal to pair the LPNs with the General students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Martha, Thanks for your post to the forum. Does your book come with any additional materials like PowerPoints or videos? If not can you look on YouTube to find relevant videos. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I've tried different approaches. I teach nursing and in my last group had 10 LPN's and 10 general students with no experience.The major problem that i had was the lpn's were not helpful to their classmates, in clinical, classroom or lab. They just wanted to sit there and not get involved. after a while i tried buddying up the students according to their experiences. one more problem i had was that all of the lpN's were in one clinical group and the other students were in another group. i think it would have been better to mix them up. any suggestions?
I teach esthetics. There seems to be a common bond with every student I have had which is none of them are written learners. The mood always goes down hill when it's time to open the book and go over a chapter. I will always go back over the important parts of the chapter and write it on the board and they have to write it down. No one has ever said to me we just read this. So I feel like I need to come up with ideas for the written learner.
Hi Anne, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are running an active learning classroom - well done! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Getting students involved is good for all learning types depending on how you approach teaching the subject and the assessments. I try different approaches by engaging group discussion, writing on the board, have students look up information and read it and letting students have hands on or experiential learning. Some times it is trial and error depending on the group of students.
Hi Carol, Thanks for your post to the forum. Your classroom is a great example of a non-threatening and interactive environment! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I have found that tell show and do covers the learning styles of the students in lab. I discuss the theory, show them and then let them go... heaven help us all... lol...those that are kinesthetic that the lead with manual skills and assist practicing with the others. All get involved and I remain the facilitator and enjoy watching the communication.The adults enjoy the process of learning without pressure knowing I will do assessments later but allowing them to reason and work out the "kinks" on their own builds their confidence for independent decisions later.
Hi Priscilla, Thanks for your post to t forum. I agree that students usually enjoy working in groups. It's especially effective if we can create diverse groups according to learning styles. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I work at a technical school and I hear so many times how students love the lab time they have as this gives them the opprotunity to be hands on. This allow them to work in teams and learn from each other. They feed off each others learning styles..visual learners with written and auditory learners with grasp different and new information from each other. Teams are great tools to use when apply differenty learning styles.
Hi Courtney, Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, there are so many ways to adapt out delivery to meet the needs of our students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I agree Courtney. I can easily incorporate auditory, visual, and written styles in my course but am having difficutly with tactile. Critical thinking for dental hygiene is mostly case studies and treatment planning. Very little tactile except when treating patients.
