I can see why it is important to move around the classroom, but how does one do this if one is doing a baking (cooking) demo?
I readily move throughout the class room after demo during the student's production time, but the first minutes to hour of each class day is devoted to Chef's demo of the day's production.
There are days when we have to break the demos up into 2 or 3 parts, but I wonder if this is helpful or harmful to have to interrupt the students production.
Any thoughts?
Carol Kravitz
I like to move around the class room. Moving around the room helps keep the students attention,gives an oportunty for eye contact, and you can keep everyone involved in the lecture.
I teach a character animation class, and it is essential to have myself as well as my students get up and move around the classroom in order to analyze human movements and timing. I too use a horse shoe shaped layout which allows for an open area in the center to preform. The students love the class and look forward to coming every week.
I consider the entire class to be my playground. By moving around the class while discussing issues and material, it both allows the students to focus the discussion and for me to focus my attention more easily on individual students.
I remember when I was getting my undergraduate degree I had two history classes back to back in a 300 seat lecture hall. Although the first of the two classes was my favorite subject, I had a hard time staying awake because the professor sat on the edge of his desk and spoke nonstop for nearly 2 hours. The other professor walked around the entire lecture hall and engaged individual students.
I always like to walk around the classroom because it also lets me see what they are working on and doing what they are supposed to be working on. It also lets me jump in and help them if the have a question about a certain software.
I like to move around the room so that they hear me from diffrent places in the room. If I stayed in one place they would fall a sleep with boardom. It also helps me look at what they are doing.
