I like to do my culinary demonstrations throughout the class session. However, after learning and understanding about memory research and thinking back of the demos I did which was during the first quarter of the class, I realized that I wasn't reaching a lot of them because I needed to do the same demo, again, during the later part of the session. Obviously, they either weren't paying any attention or got distracted from the demos. Now, I will do the demos first, get their attention and focus,the "why they need to learn it" and explain the theory after. I am looking forward to a much more focused group during the lab exercises.
Students study theory in my courses. I'm going to be sure to review the concepts from the prior class at the beginning of each class. I will ask students to identify real life experiences that illustrate concepts.
Backward chaining. Although I've always done a bit of this in teaching music structure, it's clear that my students might well stay much more focused if we start with a full song and deconstruct it, learning vocabulary and developing their listing skills as we go. This will be a huge change, for we usually start with music basics, then wend our way, often rather painfully, to the whole picture
Edwardo,
yes, this provides great pegs for them on which to hang the class concepts.
Dr. Ryan Meers
When i'm covering a mew concept to students discuss relevent examples and real life experience to the table so students understand why they are learning it and when it will come up in there career, that way they buy in to the fact that this content is an important part of there career training.
By Eddy Mojena
How I use the memory process I would have them relate subject to any personal situation that they can relate to subject.
Patricia,
glad the course was helpful. If we can demonstrate that we believe in our students, that does go miles to helping them.
Dr. Ryan Meers
gwen,
I think just sharing some of the variety of memory techniques is a great way to help our students & as you've pointed out they'll come up with what works best for them.
Dr. Ryan Meers
Variety of learning and retention methods will assist all types of learners.
I currently use some of the techniques,your course reassure me about one of the most important teaching techniques, to believe in
the students, some times it's challenging, since
some of them have a poor high school background,
you just remined me of this.
All the others teaching techniques are usefull as well and intent to use them,
Thank You
Patricia Bermudez.
I tend to give them my way of remembering information and I find that over half the class will remember it in the same way and the other portion is encouraged to come up with a way to remember the information on their terms. They come up with some crazy stuff, but it works. Sometimes the crazier the better! I have not tried clumping so I am excited to put this to use!!
Yes, I do that, too. It really works. And now they even ask me, "How do you remember that?"
marie,
it really does make a significant difference to our students if we demonstrate that we believe they can be successful.
Dr. Ryan Meers
marie,
it really does make a significant difference to our students if we demonstrate that we believe they can be successful.
Dr. Ryan Meers
I am fascinated by the Pygmalion Effect and will use my choice of words to instill a positive expectation on the students to learn the content of the class.
Aisling,
this is a great way to prepare the students for learning & to help retain the concepts.
Dr. Ryan Meers
I always start the class with photos and visual aids with hints on what we are going to do that day. I also have certain items on the pods and ask students to go to these items and write one word associated with that item and then we discuss all the items and the hints and clues to get the student to wrok out what the topic is going to be. At the end of the class we always do a fun fact review on what we did that day and the students love it.
Gloria,
these are all great ideas to help with retention of concepts.
Dr. Ryan Meers
Dr. Meers,
One of the ideas presented here, which I recently learned about in a different format, is "chunking."
For instance, in speech research, it has been shown that if you break your 1 hour talk into 6 ten-minute modules, your audience reboots every ten minutes. It's starts the learning curve over each time. It ties to the chunking idea that you presented in the material here where audiences are able to retain more in smaller batches.
Thanks!
Rick
I have already implemented some changes in my nursing class dynamic. I told myself it would be successful and it was! We already utilized pre-reading, and I introduced activities that "forced" learners to approach material outside of their learning comfort zone. I utilized fill in the blank power point slide handouts, made the power point slide background a pale blue, have colored white board markers available for students to use in individual presentations, and utilize a case study at the end of each learning session. I am excited to introduce more of the great ideas I have discovered in this course. Thank you.
