Sondra, she obviously had a big impact in your educational life. Thanks for sharing.
Michele Deck
I can remember my 2nd grade teacher. She was so passionate about teaching and made it fun. She had us play games that were centered towards learning.
Tina, it is great that you are aware of which style is your favorite.
Michele Deck
The teachers I liked were the ones that were engaging in their presentation styles. I am an auditory learner so the stories told and the presentations that were told in animated tones and from faculty who loved what they were doing were easiest to remember.
James, giving real world examples grounds the content for the learners.
Michele Deck
I had a few teachers, most of them either added humor and facts to back up what they were teaching which made us have a bettr understanding of the material. I myself like to give some examples or additional informaton of the material that I'm speaking about to give my students a better visual mind set of the topic.
Carolyn, what a great way to see if students are paying attention! Thanks for telling us about it.
Michele Deck
I had an A&P instructor who "played" at being absent minded. He kept us on our toes waiting to correct him during his lecture. If we didn't catch on to the "mistake" he would pause and then "oops, that's wrong..." on himself and he knew he had to spend more time on that subject. Once we realized it was a game he was playing, the whole class participated. It became a contest to see who could catch the error first.
Rebecca, it is essential that we repeat the successful methods we have seen demonstrated in the classrooms we have inhabited in our lives.
Michele Deck
My sociology teacher in high school was the most engaging teacher that I remember. we all loved his class. He used humor and real life stories to teach the material and get the point across.
Stacey, I'm sure Dr Davis would be proud to hear he had such a positive impact on you.
Michele Deck
Dr. Harry Davis. He was comical and worked hard to teach everyone to the point they understood the material. I try very hard to be like him.
Allyson, it sounds like he did some of all the methodologies and I wish he had been my teacher, too!
Michele Deck
Ma. Louella , any method that you still remember and can use yourself is a great one.
Michele Deck
This is a no-brainer question..... Hands down it was my Entomology Instructor in college.... Dr. Gibson. He was awesome. No one ever missed his classes because he was such a hoot to listen to... you couldn't take notes because you would miss something! But you didn't have to take notes because you learned from his lectures! He was very animated, passionate, and always had live or preserved specimens that you could hold and study to cement the lecture in your mind. He also was an avid believer in field trips... take the learning outside, afterall that's where the bugs were!
My favorite was my Anatomy and Physiology teacher. He taught us a very simple way to remember the 12 cranial nerves in the right order. It's an acronym of which I still use in my classroom up to this day.
Gordon, I agree that passion for a topic is infectious. If there is some topic I do not love, I try to find a way to teach it that I do love. It helps to balance out content in a long class session.
Michele Deck
Shirley, it is easy to tell when a teacher does not know the content. Humor is a great tool for a teacher's skill list.
Michele Deck
For me it was the teachers who you could tell were passionate about what they were teaching. Seeing someone in the know who is truly vested in the material they are teaching makes me want to learn from them. If the teacher doesn't even care for the material, why should the student?...
I loved teachers with a good sense of humor. Tell me something funny about a fact and I would not forget it.
Also love organization. Hate it when a teacher stammers and doesn't know what they are talking about.
