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Nt1310 Unit 4 Assignment

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Having a great GPA is always desirable but 1 year after college or three months after the class is over, how much does the student retain? One of the complaints you often hear from teachers of grades 1-12 is that students forget a significant amount of information over the summer break so extra time has to be allotted to get them back up to speed. Since significant loss of information probably occurs with college students too, I asked myself, “What can I do to improve retention of taught information?” Repetition, I think, is the key. I would like to incorporate opportunities to see key concepts in different ways in my courses. I would like to develop courses that parallel the major course to facilitate the retention of taught information. For example, if a student makes 80% on an exam. An analysis of the missed information would be used to develop a plan to reinforce the missed concepts in a parallel course/lab for the class. The student would be asked to …show more content…

For example, when my student won 2nd place in a campus-wide science fair, she had worked really diligently and had demonstrated excellent research skills. However, I had to intervene and insist that she put as much time and effort into the preparation for the presentation as she did her experiments. She did and it really showed. I was beaming when she won!—“Taking responsibility” philosophy was used. Then there was the time, when I required everyone in my biology laboratory class to diagram and discuss the flow of blood though the heart, orally. Seriously, everyone had to do it before leaving lab. I did this because I recognized many of the students were not paying attention, were loud, and/or did not care. Suddenly, they had to pay attention. The pride on some of the “weaker” student’s faces (who I had intentionally asked to present later after hearing the information numerous times) when they got it done, was priceless –“Repetition” philosophy was

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