to allow yourself to always understand this, as you can, every learner.
How to determine the student's needs and decide how to assist the student accordingly.
Understanding how to connect with students and how to better build rapport.
No one learns the same. There are visual learners, auditory learners, and repetition learners. This is just a few ways people learn. The best way to understand how to teach people is in our brain a memory is placed after we learn something new. However, the way we can access it can improve when we use other senses and emotions for that memory. We remember eating the best steak we ever had. that memory can be brought back up by looking at a steak, my just smelling the steak or even just hearing the sizzle of a steak. Thats because each one of those senses were attached to that memory.
In teaching, we need to get all the senses we can to help the student not just learn the material but to easily access it again. Adding emotions like sock factor, jumping up on a table and reciting Abraham Lincoln. That helps a student recall what was being said because of seeing a teacher doing something not normal.
Basically, just find as many ways to look at the material and see what works. teaching or training people is always a changing system. you will have students that just wont get the material until you step outside the bix and look at it in a different way.
Taking the students POV and perspective of the learning environment is beneficial in order to make any improvements.
I've learned that motivation is key factor for successful learning.
I need to take more time to look at things from the student's perspective. I often have a difficult time repeating things in lectures, but I must understand that they don't start with my knowledge base.
I have extended my understanding of the non-traditional trade school student and their needs. This is important in communication and soft-skills in dealing with whatever needs those students may have.
I don’t think I provide enough encouragement (vital for motivation and retention) so I need to find ways to build that into the course, both for online weeks and in-person weeks.
Keeping students engaged and motivated from one class to another, Instructors must understand that each student has a different learning style. Retention and keeping individual students focused in the classroom is dependent on the instructor to understand and being able to adapt to deferent learning styles and techniques for each student.
When you know your students you can get the max out of them in a learning environment
My takeaway from this lesson was to be mindful of the student's path to my classroom. Everyone is on a journey and there will be challenges that they face from outside influences that will impact their ability to fully engage. Adult learners carry so many responsibilities and taking on a new role as a student can be stressful. I plan to be empathetic and provide a classroom environment that brings value, stability, and provides a structure where all can feel valued and appreciated, no matter if they are a more experienced learner or just out of high school. The goal is to maintain that drive to achieve the education required for a successful career, that will provide more stability to achieve that self-actualization.
I learned that seeing how multiple different people learn can show you how to teach better and the diversity in understanding how to do things whether its more hands on or more schooling and studying. Its very important to find ways to relate and get along and get to know them so you can understand how to approach and what's going to work for said person. The most important thing to me that I've learned through this is to make sure absolutely no one is in fear intimidated or feel less than you truly never know what's going on in anyones life.
I've learned that understanding student characteristics and goals before diving into the academic material, knowledge retention is far greater than expected.
Applying more effort on identifying student's background, career goals and aspirations, I can effectively integrate activities to help grow their skills and accomplish diverse learning methods.
I learned there are different ages and types of people taking these courses. As an instructor its up to me to try and use the best instructional methods for each student to achieve the best learning environment.
It is important to identity very early in the course why students are enrolled in school. It is also important to identity the different type of challenges students maybe facing that may interfere with their learning. Lastly, it is vital for students who have just finished high school to learn independence and responsibility regarding assignments and not be coddled.
I learned that motivation is the key to their success. Keep them aligned with the program. Help them understand the importance of topics in curriculum and how it relates to testing and O&P so that they can get past the government hurdle and understand basic rules of the FAA so that they can proceed to next level of being a aircraft mechanic.
i learned about engaging and motivating the class. different experiences motivate different students of all walks of life.
To effectively support the class, it is important to start with strong motivation and build individual connections with students. Moving forward I will continue to adapt my teachings to adapt to student's needs.
I learned about different ages, backgrounds and paying attention to the learning environment for the student to be successful.
