How we deliver the goods
I’ve just returned from a wonderful conference, complete with great weather and interesting sessions. In trying to spend some time reflecting before returning to the Monday reality of life, I still feel some tension from the various methods professors use to deliver information. The continuum of information I gathered from individual conferences to sessions was lectures with some electronic interaction to projects with professors as facilitators. Somewhere in between are concerned professors who want to engage their students but do not want the medium to become the focus.
Good points I did return to my students with: power lectures of about 10 minutes following by student-to-student discussion/role play/videos, constant interaction, and this quote, “the person who does the talking does the learning.” Another professor shared: Understand Your Ego (leave it at the door), Understanding Yourself (what are your gifts), Know Your Topic, and Know Your Students = Joy of Teaching.
My goal is to incorporate more rich mediums for learning; however, this doesn’t mean that every class will have the feel of “Burleson’s Entertainment – come on in.”
