As a teacher it is very important for me to prepare my students for the working world regardless of culture, personality, gender, or any other possible barrier. Technical students must learn what all the technical terms mean, how to properly use them to communicate, how to be prompt, dependable, trustworthy, and solve problems. My role as a teacher is to guide students with real life experience and knowledge from working in the field and help them become what's expected of them so they may become gainfully employed. I want all my students to not only be able to understand and apply the material, but also to be quite capable of figuring out new problems all on their own.
I want my students to understand integrity is extremely important in the technical field as well as the ability to fix issues even if they have never seen them before. They must learn to research, question why, work independently, and also in a group. But even more important, they must understand how to communicate with others who are not in the technical field, and they must learn to exercise patience with users that need their help.
In my teaching pedagogies, I make every effort to combine activities that are active learning, student centered, but also led with lecture or explanations where they need it. In short, I use a combination of most pedegogies depending on the situation at hand and the lesson that is needed. It is extremely important to keep learning and to continue to modify your approach to relate the material to your students. It is also important students are welcomed in a warm manner and they are comfortable in approach so I can help the students who really need it.
I know my approaches are very different than many other instructors, but I feel this is why students continuously fill up my classes. In my class, they get to learn really cool things including information about their career in general and what types of jobs they might encounter in the field. I even go so far as to help them with resumes since technical resumes are very different, and without that knowledge, they may not gain employment, as the primary goal is for them to be gainfully employed.
I want my students to understand integrity is extremely important in the technical field as well as the ability to fix issues even if they have never seen them before. They must learn to research, question why, work independently, and also in a group. But even more important, they must understand how to communicate with others who are not in the technical field, and they must learn to exercise patience with users that need their help.
In my teaching pedagogies, I make every effort to combine activities that are active learning, student centered, but also led with lecture or explanations where they need it. In short, I use a combination of most pedegogies depending on the situation at hand and the lesson that is needed. It is extremely important to keep learning and to continue to modify your approach to relate the material to your students. It is also important students are welcomed in a warm manner and they are comfortable in approach so I can help the students who really need it.
I know my approaches are very different than many other instructors, but I feel this is why students continuously fill up my classes. In my class, they get to learn really cool things including information about their career in general and what types of jobs they might encounter in the field. I even go so far as to help them with resumes since technical resumes are very different, and without that knowledge, they may not gain employment, as the primary goal is for them to be gainfully employed.