Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Youtube and Chickens...


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My Embedded Professional Learning (EPL) placement for this term is at TAFE, where I am observing students who are undertaking Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery). The latest lesson plan dealt boning whole chickens. Whilst demonstrating the process to the students it was observed that many students were not paying attention and this became more obvious when it was their turn to attempt the task. When writing my reflection for the lesson at the end of the day I considered why some students naturally grasped the task whilst others found it hard to conceptualise. One of the thoughts that came to mind was - multiple intelligences - and could the use of differing strategies in instruction help those students who seemed to struggle. And if so what other strategies were there available.
For some of the students that are visual/spatial learners (gp-training.net, 2006) the above Youtube clip could have offered them more information than a demonstration that involved a more linguistic strategy than visual.
As part of future teaching strategies and lesson development more effort was put into to thinking about the different learning styles and Youtube is just one of the many resources available that can help accommodate diverse learning styles.

Dominique

References:
gp-training.net. (2006). Multiple intelligences. Retrieved August 11, 2009, from,
http://www.gp-training.net/training/educational_theory/multint/multint.htm
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2 comments:

  1. Catherine KeeganAugust 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM

    Dear Dominique,

    Multimodal (see eSchool News, "Analysis: How Multimedia can Improve Learning") learning is a suitable term here, too. It is the combination of visual and auditory that grabs attention.

    From,
    Catherine.

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  2. DominiqueAugust 13, 2009 at 9:52 PM

    Hi Catherine,

    Thanks for that, I am still getting accustomed to the language that surrounds teaching/learning and it always helps when someone points this out for me. Are you a teacher? I have read most of your posting and you use this language efficiently.

    Dom

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