Stephen Harwood Jr

Stephen Harwood Jr

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I all to often have felt frustrated by the feeling that many of my students are fooling themselves to think that they might succeed in their chosen career despite severe language deficits. Have you ever found yourself compelled to suggest postpone their studies, focusing first on correction of their prohibitively weak language skills?
The value of group work is emphasized strongly throughout the MaxKnowledge courses I have taken, and I would like to utilize these techniques with my students. However, I have found it difficult to design an appropriate activity. The course material is highly technical, and its applications require physical resources that are not available in class. Have you encountered a similar situation? If so, do you have any recommendations?
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Is it sometimes good to sit down? Maybe when encouraging classroom discussion?
Hello, I really like the idea of keeping a journal. It's potential value is obvious. And I truly need to improve the efficiency with which I implement lessons learned from class to class and semester to semester. But just as I am optimistic, I am concerned that without some guidance about how to structure the journal, it will inevitably be just another case of disorganized inefficiency. Do you have any favorite guidelines or tips on how to approach the actual mechanism of keeping a journal? Thanks in advance! Stephen

I teach a subject that addresses a specialized area of practice (game audio development) within a broader professional field (audio production). By its nature, the specialization requires advanced development of challenging technical skill and higher-order thought. In all fairness, it is not a likely target for a majority of my students. Many of them pick up on this early on: they tune out and turn off. I am working to develop presentations and activities that offer learning objectives more easily generalized outside of the specialty. But I feel strongly that it would be a disservice to the students to entirely… >>>

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