It is important to present content in different forms of delivery to try to accommodate as many learning styles as possible.
Always vary learning styles when delivering lectures to ensure that all your students have their needs met.
Remember that students have different learning styles. It will be important to implement teaching to confirm to these styles.
Develop lesson plans using various learning styles.
Student comprehension is of vital importance, referencing back to my experience as a student in a technical college environment an effective lesson plan within my courses greatly contributed to my comprehension of the material being presented. Being properly prepared and presenting the material to students in which they will better understand and comprehend the material is of great importance.
Make sure that I can properly vary my teaching style so that each student can learn from each style and also make sure that i practice each demo.
Reading the room, knowing your audience. This should allow a successful delivery and good learning experience for the class. Sometimes more than one delivery method may be needed: so be it, it's about the students, you do what you have to do so the learning environment is productive and effective.
Use a variety of teaching methods.
You should be on the lookout and be aware of better and different ways you can offer instruction. Learning styles vary, so you should vary your delivery to address as many styles as possible. Prepare demonstrations before class and practice them, have a back up plan incase something goes wrong.
As instructors, we need to keep changing and adapting to reach our students and keep them interested. It is not an easy task but I learned with this course many excellent tools and a variety of methods.
Comment on Michael Taylor's post: I agree with you. I noticed many TED talks have become viral on the internet because of their approach. I will keep it in mind when I am planning my lectures.
Delivering Course Content
New teachers have a daunting task to develop the pedagogical skills. As a captain steers his ship a teacher must lead students in an exploration of knowledge and skill. Keeping in mind students learning styles and ways of delivering information the goal is still to get students to learn and retain. I think teachers who have great delivery and use different ways to get students attention is key.
A well-seasoned teacher can always improve on what worked and what didn't in lecture or in demonstration.
It is important to be able to incorporate the different learning styles of the students so they can all succeed.
I like the idea of mini lectures. you do not want the students getting bored. You have to make learning exciting and to do that you have to be prepared and learn different ways of including different styles of teaching.
Use multiple delivery methods when lesson planning to keep students engaged, suite all different learning styles.
Seems pretty clear that the ability to learn and how natural some given method or aspect is will vary by individual.
Being attentive and perceptive of the changes in the classroom atmosphere, along with mindfulness of known averages of human attention and memory, will go a long way towards the students success.
Will also help develop skills of the instructor.
Most of it's pretty common sense, but specifics like attention span or ability to recall verbal vs written instruction and sequences will keep engagement up.
To create a lesson plan for the day you should determine lesson content, state title, create goals, develop a “why”, list objectives, decide on delivery method and evaluate lesson effectiveness.
Teaching strategies are important to understand how to keep the students engaged
Its useful to use a variety of teaching methods to ensure that you keep students' engagement throughout topics.
Your students are taking your course to gain a set of competencies that will enable them to enter into and succeed in their chosen career area.
