Delivering Course Content | Origin: ED101
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Effective Teaching Strategies --> Delivering Course Content
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In this lesson I learned that: "If there is rapport between you and your students, they will connect with the content you are sharing and their retention will be higher."
Prep Prep Prep!!!! The better prepared you are the better you will do. It is always better to over-prepare than under. However, you need to learn the balance of preparing. When you try to teach over-prepared one tends to run out of time and rush through demos and different portions of the lecture. If you under prepare you look as if you are trying to find your way through the fog. A mixture of the both may be the right place to be. Trust your gut but put together a good effort. Put the theories and demos that worked well right up front to get a good start at it. Expand off of those and even better ideas will come along. Time managment will also fit better as you find out what works and what doesn't. Theres always so much to learn from great acts and the ones that you kind of bomb.
keeping the students engaged is important to see that the are getting the information they need and are retaining that information and retrieving it for use on tests.
Adapt to your students learning methods.
The idea of this section is to keep the students engaged and see that they are getting the information they need to pass test questions. The overall score of the whole class will see if the instructor is getting the information out and the students understand what the instructor is saying and doing a good job.
Using a lecture with a demo is a good way to keep the students attention and it allows them to put it together.
Different lecture styles may offer a variety of perspectives with the students. Combining the different styles of lectures can create a more interactive environment for the students.
I like the idea of breaking the lectures up into 10-15 minute chunks so the effectiveness of the students ability to absorb the material does not drop off.
Choosing the proper delivery method will make all the difference to how your students retain what they are being taught.
I appreciate the reinforcement that attention spans last about 10-15 minutes. In my personal experience, it's less. I try to follow an 8 minute rule (not supported by lit, but shared by early mentors). After 8 minutes of talking, do something else or you'll loose your audience.
To be an effective teacher it is good to learn different ways of presenting information. You will have all types of students in your class. An effective teacher can reach students with different learning styles.
Effectively delivering course content means using a variety of teaching methods to keep students engaged and meeting different learning styles. Breaking complex topics into manageable pieces, encouraging participation and connecting lessons to real-world experiences helps the students to better understand and retain the material.
It is best to change things up so you reach all your students' learning methods.
Course content needs to be intentionally designed with clear learning objectives, engaging activities and meaningful assessments. Lessons should build on one another while providing students with opportunities to apply what they have learned through hands on experiences and real world problem solving.
Use a variety of teaching styles to reach a variety of learning styles.
I learned about different learning styles and how different ways to teach to help students be successful
its important to creat an outline for your lesson before class and practice it in order to not read from your lesson plan. this gives the students confidence in you and they connect more to what you say or do
I have learned that it is important to use different teaching styles to maximize learning.
I've learned to really mix my delivery and course content to keep students active and involved.
