Great job Ruth!
I remember when I first started to college as a very non-traditional student, all students were required to take "Orientation to College Life" or more recently referred to as "Career Development". It was the best thing that could happened to me as a returning student. It relieved my fears of failure before I ever got started.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Before class starts I will have the objectives on the board and elaborate on how it relates to their professional success.
Repetition is key for me. In addition, finding ways to explain things so that they relate to common knowledge, pop culture, or cultural knowledge is beneficial. Drawing lines (or even leading them to draw those lines) between information is key in retention. I love the Pygmalion theory. I will try to incorporate that into every day.
i will use the pymaglion idea more to create a more positive environment for the students and look at the past grades and attendance numbers for upswinging trends.
With Teaching a class that is one of the first classes that my students enter as they return to school I find that maximizing their retention is one of the most important items that we need to work on with them. Students in my class range from very recent graduation to being out of school for 20 to 30 years, they come with all different feelings about school and learning. Many have not been shown how to maximize their learning. We need to show them the different ways that their memory can be maximized and how they can succeed. The course that I teach is called Career Development which is used to maximize their retention through memory. I will continue to stress it and how I use it now and have used it for me.
I use the technique of reiterating the last day's lesson to start the new. Also, I end each day with a segway into the next days lesson.
First when i walk in the objectives for the is wriiten on the board. When I start a new chapter in the Medical Terminology Book, I usually write all the word part on the board for that chapter, will is very effective , because i can see that they are looking up the meaning for the words. Also, if their phones goes off in class then its an automatic Med-terms quiz, which help them for studying, and trust me work effectively.
You are right on target Chan!
Repeat, repeat, practice and repeat some more. I feel like this is the bases to learning.
Good job!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
I enjoy watching my students study with flash cards daily. They know that it helps retain the information they need to know. They also realize when no flash cards are made test scores are low so it's an ah ha for them.
I find memory utilization a key in instruction- the forever old method of using 'rote' has been the learning method of our most basic learned knowledge- I find any way we can influence long term memory is an added tool
I am a firm beleiver in repetition. The research is very gratifing becase it supports my position. I use repitition and drills a lot in my classroom. I will add end of class reviews to also back up all the repitition. Starting class on a positive note is important also.
I will use the memory research to increase the students’ learning retention by having the day’s objectives on the board when the students arrive and at the beginning of class go over it in detail.
To achieve this objective, I strive to link the unfamiliar to the familiar. I currently teach coding classification discipline were the classification system is constantly being updated. Any new classification materials would be linked to the material that they were intended to replace and in the case of new material with no reference point, the new material is linked to the rationale for its creation.
