Get Your Students Hired
Hi Brian,
You have a great package to offer your students, education, experience and knowledge. Your students will definitely trust you if you know your material and can help them on their road to success.
Patricia Scales
Since I am a professional in the field, I mostly get buy-in by mentioning my experience and my education. Also, my supervisor told them that I know a lot about coding which helps the students to really trust that they are getting knowledge from a good source.
Gaining buy in from the students is critical to the successful outcomes of the course. In my class I also use the WIIFM analagy. I want my students to ask What's in it for me? I ask how many people asked this question before the start of the class, and for those who did not ask the questionl, I ask why not. Doing this exercise, I am getting buy in from the students and finding out what they are expecting from the class. I also ask the students to write down what they are expecting to learn in the class and at the end fo the class I will have them go back to the list and see if we have met their expectations.
Hi David,
All students need reassurance, motivation, encouragement, and guidance.
Patricia Scales
Hi Joseph,
Students really need to know how the course is going to benefit them in order to get buy in from the students.
Patricia Scales
Hi Jana,
Students love hearing success stories, especially of graduates. Success stories are very motivating, simply because of people succeeding.
Patricia Scales
I have not really gone through the material as yet. but, I understand the importance of the student buy in regarding the course and class participation.
Using success stories always helps with student buy it. Whether its success of previous students or how working in the fitness field helps others, it usually excites students for the course.
The students always seem to have input on their courses. I encourage them to complete the surveys at the end of the term on their student portal.
Hi Crystal,
Students enjoy hearing our stories as to how they apply to the real world. Students really want to and need to know how it really is in the real world.
Patricia Scales
I create credibility with the students by being able to relate to them through my personal experiences. I also use real world examples and create an environment that allows everyone to discuss and participate. I prefer to have discussion so they can learn from each other's real world experiences as well as from mine. It allows they to see that what they are learning is applicable.
Hi Colleen,
I like how you use this tactic. This tactic is a way for students to take ownership in the course based on the way you do it.
Patricia Scales
Hi Francis,
I am sure the comic strip is a great conversation piece! It really gives students something to think about. I like to promote buy in for my students by showing a PowerPoint based on how the course will benefit them in their career.
I try to explain the course and some of the activities. I ask students their expectations and when they say to get an A, we discuss how they are going to achieve that and formulate a plan
Hi Shelby,
This is awesome! What a super way to generate buy in from your students. I love how you take an active role as well.
Patricia Scales
Go over the syllabus completely.
Explain course expectations up front.
Relate professional experience and knowledge to information to be learned in the course.
Associate course materials to real worl situations.
Hi Jona,
Students need to know that you genuinely care about their success. They will work harder knowing that you truly care about their success.
Patricia Scales
Give them reassurance that i am competent in my knowledge and that i am not just "blowing smoke". Yesterday as a matter of fact, I took the class on a field trip. The Person to whom we had a discussion with after the field trip and observation, told of what to do and what to exppect and what was to be expected of a position with that field of work. THey would look at me with the "he didnt lie about what was to be expected" look. afterwords I had a message from one of the students thanking me for the trip and that it helped her refocus on class and lab time.
My courses objectives are met by using the model of team building . We are a team in my courses; I am the facilitator, but the course belongs to all individuals involved. The students buy into the course by knowing that each participant plays a role in the success of our cohort. Differentiated instruction is imbedded in the fabric of my class time. We all play a role: I lecture for a limited amount of time, next students charged with developing information based on the lectures, then students move into group collaboration, and finally students share their component of the lesson. I guide the students as needed during their independent/group learning time. In closing, each person (including me) must develop a reflection reviewing what items were shared, adopted, and used for the day.