Thank you. The reality check is that TED presenters practice their delivery for many days in order to hone their words/tone and measure impact. No full time teacher has that luxury. At the same time, practicing the principles of quarter hour mini lessons, limited topics, and emotional connection can create a habit pattern that takes advantage of presentational science.
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Michael... How clever, thank you for your post.
I have learned that it is very important to change how you deliver the course content. I constantly stive to figure out what to utilize to keep the students motivated with the content. This section has helped tremendously with this.
I try to incorporate different learning styles into my lectures. My problem is all my objectives for the class are important and I never know which one to actually focus on. I have been learning to take 2-3 objectives and break them up into 15-minute lectures. Within each one, I then do a learning activity to drive home my lecture's purpose. In my online classes, this has been challenging. It is hard to keep students motivated. I have been asking a question in the chatbox to ease any anxiety for the class. I also make sure I am mentally prepared so they can sense my excitement.
Lesson plans, lecture notes, ppp, tree diagra: this is the good path designing your classes.
I need to develop lesson plans that I am comfortable with so I look organized and understanding of my own discussion.
As we all know each s tudent has their own learning style and as instructors, we should accommodate their own learning style.
Be creative, competent and personable, adaptive, flexible and open in your teaching/learning styles.
It is important to develop and learn competencies so that you can go and build your own instructional style. In your style there are many types of teaching/learniing that can be used. Having a lesion plan in the beginning will guide you along the way. Your delivery should demonstate competence, an interest, and an overall delivity plan. You plans shoud vary and attempt to engage the student in the content that is being delivered.
Learning styles vary from student to student. It is challenging to teach a concept when many variables exist prior to learning to happen. We have to keep in mind that people's attention span is often less in terms of our lecture time frame. This is why we should vary our teaching style and acknowledeg the natural accurences happening to students while learning. Also, too much condensed information may sometimes hinder learning results. Having a lesson plan helps the student learn and helps the instructor stay organized and prepared. Just as a student learns, an instructor should always practice, practice, practice.
Within the class I have learned alot with how to approach different aspects of teaching that i did not think about before. To be prepared before the class and to study my material before teaching it to the class. Make the students feel like they are important to you as an instructor. To always be honest and upfront with your students.
Using various teaching methods to engage the students will promote learning and retention of material.
It is important to use various approaches to teaching so that you are more likely to provide opportunities for learning that address all learning styles. It is also important to practice, come prepared, and reflect after each class on how things went and what changes could be made for continual improvement.
Making sure to use different approaches will help reach more students.
Mixing up my appraoch will help reach more students.
When instructing on a demonstration limit steps to 5-7steps.
I agree with this statement, to be a good lecturer you need to be a scholar, writer, producer, comedian, entertainer, and instructor. The biggest factor in delivering effective lectures is to practice, practice, and practice.
The attention rule of 10 to 15 min of separating every class related concept will be of a great help.
Utilize different teachiong styles in hopes to cover the everyones learning style.
Try to incorperate mini-lectures 10-15mins in legnth.
When providing demonstrations, practice prior to doing it live in class and make sure the demos have no more than 7 steps to ensure students will remember all the steps.
Use multiple methods of content delivery, but don't get hung up on trying to hit every possible learning style every time.
