Using Student Needs as Learning Tools | Origin: ED108
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Learning Theory and Practice --> Using Student Needs as Learning Tools
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The "making the course content relevant" could work in my situation. I teach "pre-release" which is a required course that is designed to cover areas that will help our incarcerated residents stay out of prison. If I could start each session with a discussion of how a particular class may help them in staying out of prison, maybe that provides some motivation.
By using an effective learning tool will help me discover how much information the students are attaining.
Multiple intelligences refer to the different ways we process and understand information. According to Howard Gardner's theory, we have various intelligences, such as linguistic, logical, musical, and bodily-kinesthetic, that influence how we learn and approach different tasks. Recognizing these intelligences helps me understand my student's strengths and how they best absorb new knowledge.
La planeación de la clase es fundamental, motiva al estudiante y a un grado de satisfacción al profesor.
I learned how critical it is to understand the needs and expectations of students in order to enhance their motivation and engagement. Recognizing that students come into career education with personal and specific goals, life experiences, and a desire for autonomy that helps shape how we approach teaching. Understanding the importance of pretesting, relevancy in course content, and consistent review are all essential tools in creating an effective learning environment.
I apply this by ensuring that I create opportunities for students to voice their expectations and goals at the start of each course. I pretesting to assess their knowledge and experiences, enabling me to tailor the course content accordingly. I also emphasize the relevance of the material by connecting lessons directly to real-world applications in their future careers. Finally, I implement varied, distributed, and cumulative review strategies to reinforce learning and help students build confidence in their growing skills.
Comment on Helen Saunders's post: I agree this is the best way to determine if the information that is being presented is being absorbed by the students. If the information is not retained you can formulate another plan.
Frequent reviews are crucial. You can vary the applications and methods of review for more thorough integration of material.
Students must be shown why and how information is relevant and applicable to their future careers. Otherwise, their brains will filter out information it doesn't deem useful enough so it can make room for more useful knowledge.
Reviewing material is very important as it can be a key learning tool for students and for teachers to gauge short coming in learning. To possibly consider review of one's lesson plans and associated concepts for comprehension.
Reviewing material is very important, but I think it's important for the instructor to avoid reviewing material directly from a test for quiz. I've seen a lot of instructors use their test as the review material. You want to make sure students are understanding the concepts and not just memorizing the questions for short-term regurgitation.
I already use review as a key learning tool for my students whenever I have the chance, however, a pre-test is something I should certainly take into consideration. It's a great tool not only for the students to set their expectations as to what the class might entail, but for the instructor to make sense of the student's progress!
Instructors can administer an ungraded pretest to determine the student's knowledge of prerequisite content, learning preferences, and plan for success that term.
I learned it is important to understand that different student needs require different methods of teaching.
There issue of time management with some of this, it sounds nice in theory, but there practically isn't enough class time for it.
Pretesting is a necessity.
Quizzes and reviews are great for reviewing the material but also to show why the info is relevant is also very important.
Reviews are incredibly beneficial for students because they can help them stay on track with their learning and help them identify the knowledge they need if there is something they do not understand.
Using Pre testing and frequent review as a teaching tool can be very effective in any classroom.
I don't remember learning too much in the first encounter with new information, so it is easy to see that revisiting information for students will reinforce the learning objectives.
