Follow Up to Session #12 - Utilizing Group Teaching Techniques

Follow Up to Session #12 - Utilizing Group Teaching Techniques

What are you curious about?

• Utilizing Teaching Chips as an instructional tool 
• Those chips are an Awesome Tool! They can be purchased on Kagan online!  You can also be very creative and make them yourself!
• Principles of Teaching and Learning
• Continue reading about PTL in your Teaching Methods text! There are also great resources online and in your AEE 412 Course packets (class and lab!). Keep looking for them and utilizing them!
• Demonstrations!
• Yay!  Lab #3 on Wednesday!  For the lab we ask that the demonstration be at least 3 steps. The demo should follow a "Teacher says, Teacher does; Student says, Teacher does; Student says, Student does" approach.  Refer to your Teaching methods text and utilize Mrs. Rice for more information!
• Role Playing in Agriculture - Is it well taken?
• Role playing is a great teaching strategy to implement into your classroom to foster interest and to assess students understanding.  As you have learned, every student has a different learning style, some students will LOVE it and others would rather jump in the lake.  However, the way in which you present the task and instill the importance of why they need to know the information can make students excited and engaged in and about role playing.
• Asking Effective Questions
• Great!  We will be covering more of this on Friday!  Stay Tuned!
• Resources to Find Cooperative Learning Strategies
• We are so excited you are interested!  Utilize your teaching method texts as well as online tools that do a great job of providing activities and projects!  Cooperative Extension also has a lot of resources online that could be useful!
• Effective Lectures!
• Lecturing has a bad wrap for being boring.  However, it doesn't have to be!  Include graphics, music, humor, or short videos throughout your lecture to keep students interested.  A key to effective teaching is to have variability in your instruction.  Be sure to keep your lectures to no longer than 15 minutes!  Also, your excitement about the topic and the information you are sharing can also increase the effectiveness of the lecture.  Utilize your methods text and the internet to find more engaging ideas!
• Teaching Styles!
• We all have different styles and approaches to teaching.  You will discover your style and add your own personal SWAG as your grow and develop as an educator!  

What did you learn?

1. Cooperative Learning!
2. Demonstrations!
3. Differences of People!
4. Group Teaching Techniques!
5. Lecture is not the 'Bad Guy'!

What do you want to learn more about?

• Principles of Teaching and Learning
• Continue reading about PTL in your Teaching Methods text! There are also great resources online and in your AEE 412 Course packets (class and lab!). Keep looking for them and utilizing them!
• Teaching Chips 
• They can be purchased on Kagan online!  You can also be very creative and make them yourself!
• How to Make Lectures Fun
• There are many written and online texts on teaching strategies that address how to be an affective lecturer!  Investigate these resources!  They are chalk full of information! Adding graphics, appropriate music, and humor are just a few ways to increase the entertainment level of a lecture. 
• Phrasing Questions Correctly
• Stay tuned! More on this on Friday!
• Group Teaching Techniques - How do we implement effectively?
• Practice, practice, practice.  Try new things.  Don't be afraid to try techniques at your cooperating center.  You will only begin to understand how to improve if you try different techniques.  PLANNING IS HALF THE BATTLE!  Make sure you are taking the time to plan and plan well!  
• Other fun toys/tools that can be utilized to reflect on learning?
• This is an interesting question...can you expand?  See Dr. Foster for more information!