Always give positive feed back to students responses.
Great tips on how to positively address students when they give a wrong response. Also, how to give students control over the sequence of the activities, group and talking and choose.
Adult students are doers and thinkers.
Adult learners fear embarassment in front of their peers or colleagues. Security deals with the belief that they can sucessfully navigate the course material and achieve positive outcomes. Autonomy refers to the adult learner having some control over what they learn and how they learn it. This is especially useful when the content has real-world applicability to the student's professional experience.
being more supportive when a student is answering
Allow the students to gear how the class is being taught that day
pairing them up so they feel comfortable doing assignments and answering questions
allowing them the say so on how the class is being conducted
Security and Autonomy are crucial to the delivery of instruction and keeping students motivated and engaged
You can give the student autonomy by giving them a choice of an assignemnt. Example: Written essay, project, presentation.
I think a challenge for instructors at ECPI has to do with the five week format and the modules that come with each shell - It can be difficult to make changes to a "shell" for a cource because staying on track for the five weeks is curcial in order to successfully do a condensed course
However, ijstructors can still offer some adjustments - and should - and this module showed us some tips for allowing perceptions of autonomoy and giveing real choices to students to help them engage nore and enjoy class with more sucess
Always give support and positive emcouragement
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Rendered support measures and give postitive feedback.
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Giving students choices helps their feelings of control
Motivation with any student is key. Most would assume by teaching in a vocational setting motivation wouldn't be a factor, yet it is. I thik most of the time the students show up motivatied, but with adult learners, they will get easily discouraged.
Trying to comminicate with them to learn what their needs are is key.
Then applying what the student needs to the classroom is next.
All very difficult.
The power of choice has stood out to me. I appreciate the ideas of permitting students to be doers in the class structure and asking of questions.
Motivation is based on the student's self-perception not how the instructor tells the student that he/she can do it. I will help motivate by implementing activities that will increase the student's self-perception of his/her abilities in my classroom.
It is important to evaluate the types of activities that you are presenting in my classroom, and how it helps students to understand the content of the material being presented.
I do tend to offer supportive responses when I recieve a vague response to a question. I try to make students comfortable when answering, especially those students who only answer through chat and not verbally. I also will try to implement more variety of choice when giving assignments or projects.
What was learned:
Creating an environment that focuses on Security and autonomy in the classroom.
Also, Knowing the indicators of when a student is motivated
Students:
-Volunteer to answer questions asked
-Begin tasks promptly and complete
-Have attention and attend class
-Participate in discussions
Application:
This will help me identify if adjustments are needed on the delivery of the material, questioning techniques, and also check in with students who may not be showing the indicators of influence.
