Picture 4: Here is one of our adult students assembling the gearbox at the engine. This engine is not in one of our cars. It is assembled at one stand.
The students are from 20-50 years old. How old are your students? Yes, they spent a lot of time in the workshops and they mix it with theorethic lessons. Are your students spending a lot of time at the workshops?
Our students can be from 16 years of age to 90 years of age but most of them are between 16 and 25 years old. Yes our students also spend the bulk of their time in the workshops and they like this part of their learning best. They sometimes find the theory a but boring and it is a challenge to keep them learning. Do you find this?
You have to to the lessons funnier! When you mix, teorethical and practical subjects it gets i little bit easier. I our classes its about 15-20 students and its 1-3 women in every class. When there´s more than one its better, so they have each other. Yes its always more fun to keep them up to the teoretical part. But at one meeting with one studens from each class, it once came up that they wanted more teoretical, so it depens on how the teacher do the lessons...
This is a good question Ulrika and one that we often struggle with. I always go back to the sound principles of teaching and think about how to relate what the students are learning to their lives and experiences. I often start off with this and then I can see what they know and what they need to learn. I also always make it clear whatever class I am teaching that there are learning outcomes that I want them to acheive. I do this at the beginning of the lesson and explain why these learning outcomes are important. I find that if we understand why we need to learn something in practical terms it makes the teaching a lot easier. Do you do this?
Yes, I think I do a lot like you do and sometimes I have this classes with studient that have to practice their swedish too. So then, I always start to ask what they have in experience of this subject, and always they can comit to something that thay have been doing before and that is a good start to learn futher...Is´s so importent to se what kind of group you have with what kind of individs, in different ways.
How old are your students? It is good to see them working on a real piece of equipment. Do they spend a lot of time learning in this way?
ReplyDeleteThe students are from 20-50 years old. How old are your students? Yes, they spent a lot of time in the workshops and they mix it with theorethic lessons. Are your students spending a lot of time at the workshops?
ReplyDeleteIs it difficult to learn the students how to do? Do you have many women in your class?
ReplyDeleteOur students can be from 16 years of age to 90 years of age but most of them are between 16 and 25 years old. Yes our students also spend the bulk of their time in the workshops and they like this part of their learning best. They sometimes find the theory a but boring and it is a challenge to keep them learning. Do you find this?
ReplyDeleteYou have to to the lessons funnier! When you mix, teorethical and practical subjects it gets i little bit easier. I our classes its about 15-20 students and its 1-3 women in every class. When there´s more than one its better, so they have each other. Yes its always more fun to keep them up to the teoretical part. But at one meeting with one studens from each class, it once came up that they wanted more teoretical, so it depens on how the teacher do the lessons...
ReplyDeleteHow do you do to keep the studiens interested?
ReplyDeleteThis is a good question Ulrika and one that we often struggle with. I always go back to the sound principles of teaching and think about how to relate what the students are learning to their lives and experiences. I often start off with this and then I can see what they know and what they need to learn. I also always make it clear whatever class I am teaching that there are learning outcomes that I want them to acheive. I do this at the beginning of the lesson and explain why these learning outcomes are important. I find that if we understand why we need to learn something in practical terms it makes the teaching a lot easier. Do you do this?
ReplyDeleteYes, I think I do a lot like you do and sometimes I have this classes with studient that have to practice their swedish too. So then, I always start to ask what they have in experience of this subject, and always they can comit to something that thay have been doing before and that is a good start to learn futher...Is´s so importent to se what kind of group you have with what kind of individs, in different ways.
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