Angel, your post reminds me of the importance and application of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Instructors need to be familiar with how their lesson plans map to the areas of Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. By knowing to what level your students need to have mastery of the subject matter you can more appropriately map out the analogies and examples that are most appropriate for students. Too often you will see an instructor applying their own sense of master of what a student needs and focusing on an Analysis level lesson plan when a more appropriate level of Blooms would have been to a level of Understanding. Instructors need to be mindful of what desired outcomes are needed from their time with students to prepare them for the next level of learning versus taking on the burden of attempting to prepare them for their career when they are still several quarters away from graduation. James Jackson