Dear Colleagues,
Knowing the students that we are teaching is one of the keys to help us promote learning better. Regarding this question, I am curious whether you research or search for information about your students for your teaching or not?
Why do you need or do not need information about your students?
If you do, would it is be before, during, or after the class started?
If you do, please share some common characteristics of your students?
Thank you very much!
Dear Khang Duy Nguyen,
I usually don't do that (even though, I think I should...). I relay on the daily interactions to get such kind of inputs, in a non structured process.
Dear Khang Duy Nguyen,
I do a couple of things before I meet the class, I ask if they would go online and find out their learning style( VARK test). Such as audio, visual, Kinesthetic, or multi-modal as this will allow me to set up the room according to their learning style. I also encourage each student to take a class on note taking. I f I have time I will also ask the students to find out their own MTBI classification as I will take this into account later in class as I find pockets of grades that might be lower in one area of the class compared to that of another.
On the first day of class I arrange the seating according to these findings, visual up front, middle made up of audio and my kinesthetic in the back of the class, with my multi-modals mixed in with those similar with stronger traits. After I do this I break down the students into groups of four with one person being an extrovert. I identify these as the study groups as well and will use one person in that group as their study group leader, and this is adjusted based on future test scores.
Hi,
Background knowledge of students about a topic is important and I gather this information at the set induction stage in the class at the beginning. Majority of students these days prefer to engage with activities that are relevant to their interest and this includes technology and social media. Students prefer their lessons to be engaging.
regards
I agree with Malini about student engagement, However I do occasionally tell stories that may or may not relate directly to the subject matter, but they will remember the story more than they will the lecture... they a bit impatient, and not wanting to look it up old school style and writing over and over the material, they rather watch a you tube video and I encourage discussion between each student to try and develop that single -loop and double - loop learning
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