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Matching Your Instructional Delivery to Your Subject

Different subject areas require different instructional deliveries.  To get you thinking about what delivery methods will work for your course reflect back on how you were taught.  Was the methods used by your instructors effective for you?  Were you able to grasp the concepts and develop the skills needed in a logical and progressive way?  Were there things you wish the instructor would have done to help you learn more effectively?  While thinking through the answers to these questions you might want to make a list of the methods that were used.

Talk with other faculty members about what methods have been successful for them.  From them you will learn about a wide variety of strategies that might work for your classes.  A key component of learning is listening.  When you are listening you are getting information that can be very helpful to you once you have thought through how this new information can be used in your classes.

Look at your field and see how information about it is being presented.  Your students have selected to study in your field because of their interests and career goals.  They are used to receiving information about the field through various forms of media so you may want to present some of your content using these same media formats.  This form of instructional delivery is a blended in that it represents the use of techology as well as your own personality and teaching style.

Contextual learning is based upon students acquiring knowledge and skills and then applying them.  Since the majoirity of career college instruction is based upon contextual learning your instructional style will need to reflective of this as well.

Look for different ways to present your course content each time you teach it.  By doing so you will get to be creative in you instructional planning and delivery, you will not become bored by teaching the same way each time, and your students will benefit from your expertise as an instructor.

 

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