Student attention is maxed out at about 15 minutes. Using mini-lectures mixed with other activities helps keep students engaged.
Varying your teaching style and breaking your teaching up into 10-15 minute sessions, and push your students to try and stretch themselves in addition to learn about the content you are teaching.
Change up lecture deliveries.
Seth Soronnadi
This is important "Your students are taking your course to gain a set of competencies that will enable them to enter into and succeed in their chosen career area. You, as their instructor, must work hard to select the most viable method of delivering this information to them."
Teaching to reach the entire audience is necessary.
Making sure lectures are kept to certain times in order to have maximum attention span and keeping instructions to 5-7 steps for increased retention.
Use a variety of methods. Keep in mind students can follow 5-7 steps at a time. You may also consider doing 10-15 minute mini lectures to keep students engaged.
I am so pleased to learn that we are implementing many of these options when instructing students on resume building. Great session!!
Take care in preparing for each class session to allow for different methods of presenting information.
Teaching can come in many styles, people learn in different styles and knowing how to demonstrate with the right stuff can help you become great at educating those that are looking to learn
Determining delivery method for a specific class is part of planning. If the goal is to maximize learning, then selecting the most effective method based on the variables involved is key.
It is essential to understand and apply multiple teaching methods during periods of instructions in order to ensure that all of the students have the best opportunity to learn.
Utilizing multiple teaching methods and breaking up monotoy supports learning.
I got a simple method for how to create a lesson plan. Also got how to apply the concept of the 15-18 min attentino span- set up lecture in 15 min segments and allow time for questions. Brilliant
Focussing on positive feedback when walking through as students work by themselves after a demonstration, rather than focussing mainly on correcting errors or making improvements.
My biggest takeaway is varying the delivery method of information. Not everyone takes in information the same way, some might find it easy to follow along with traditional lecture while that might sap others of motivation. So wether it's varied lecturing styles or demonstrations, switching up the styles will help everyone in the long run.
- The attention span of most individuals is in the 15-18 minute range.
- We generally only remember about 25% of what we hear.
- We normally only retain 40% of what we read.
- We can listen 4 times faster than we can speak.
This course was more of a refresher to me for what I am currently doing in the class room.
Have a variety of teaching delivery options to keep students egnaged
Lecture format is key to a successful delivery and can be delivered in various ways such as expository, interactive, problem-solving, case studies, or a combination. Practice, practice, practice can better prepare the instructor for a successful delivery.
