Collaborative Learning strategies become critical in this environment. I agree with having students conduct short presentations to teach each other.
Reasoning skills are important for students to acquire to improve on decision making, think through problems and propose their own solutions to understand how options can be used in different settings. I find that my high school students are unable to recognize when something is missing or inadequate in a process. It is important for teachers to provide students with opportunities to acquire these skills by not giving them the answers and to let students discover the why and how on their own.
Comment on Carl Petee's post: carl you really pointed out the most relevent dilemma. humans are preprogrammed for confirmation bias in their quest to survive.
Assume our students are modeling our behavior...because they are. And not just our technical skills...but all of our skills.
I learned about the I-D-E-A-L methodical approach for resolving problems based on the IDEAL (Identify, Define, Explore, Act, Look) model. I am going to try this in my next class.
Going though this section has shown me the importance of confidence and posture during the lesson. How you project the information and make eye contact keeps the credibility and the learning at a higher level of acceptance.
After completing this section, some great aspects were presented. I feel that presentation skills, verbal and critical thinking skills are very important for technical learners. Everyone thinks that only hands on teaching methods offer the student the most full experience but this section backs up the facts that other skills are very important in order to be successful.
Students working together and being able to communicate with one another is important.
Role modeling is a great way to show the students how things are done.
It is important to help the student learn presentation skills and feel comfortable when presenting ideas and understand problem solving with groups and themselves.
This easy-to-remember heuristic device represents the 5 steps of this evergreen problem-solving method.
IDEAL problem-solvers
I-dentify the source of the problem,
D-efine its context,
E-xplore solutions strategies,
A-ct on the best solution,
L-ook back and evaluate the process.
It is important for students to participate in the presentations in various ways. The module is informative and provides skills to enhance critical thinking skills and problem solving.
Lifelong learning skills are crucial even for students going to work in the trade fields.
When working online and doing videos I have to be just mindful of my body language as I am if in front of students in the classroom.
This lesson on Teaching Skills and Trades online is very interesting. Create curiosity in your lesson and teaching for your students is one of many great ways to keep the lesson or teaching mentally engaging. However, the one that resonated with me most is trades people need develop skills in discussion. Many trades people lack in this skill, at times when one is training on the job, the trainers can be harsh or lack patience. Usually, the trainee is not understand the trainer, because the trainer lacks proper discussion skills. I have witness new instructors lacking this skill. This skill is very important because as one develops this skills, one can articulate the lesson better and listen instead of hearing their students.
Students participating in different ways helps to keep things going and keep them present.
I have looked at and evaluated a lot of online tools. Not just ones for checking plagairism either. What I have found is sorely lacking is a VIABLE tool to design and test electrical circuits (not electronics, but for residential and industrial electricity). If we could have things like that to show students how electricity flows, how to diagnose some issues, and something to practice with when they are not in a lab, this would be ideal.
Even for trade skills that are more hands on, presentation skills are important to discuss with others quality assurance and strategic ways to improve
This module was informative as to provide skills to enhance student critical thinking skills for problem solving. Also, as instructor we must keep in mind it is greater than 'to do as we say' we must provide an example what we expect from them as pupils.
