It was a nice refresher.

Great course.  It taught me a lot about my assessment methonds and different strategies I should try out.

I really enjoyed the pace of this class.  I found the information helpful and will be keeping all that I have learned in mind while teaching my next round of classes.

Good course, I need to better manage my stress.

I enjoyed this course.  I have learned several new strategies with which to enhance my online instructing.  I am particularly excited to be able to see some changes implimented in my current syllabus.  I am excited to re-format and make it more interactive.  Great course!

I liked this course however, y classes are active already. I just needed some ideas on turning the lecture portion into something more fun and rememberable.

Lesson planning is very important so we have a guide as to what we are teaching our students.

My students tend to appear excited and interested in my lectures when I get excited, move around the classroom, and ask them to research on the internet something pertaining to fashion. Most everyone loves clothing because it allows each person to be expressive.

i'm always trying to better understand ways to include all students from different levels of learning. to my way of thinking, fifty percent of teaching is dealing correctly with all the different personalities and backround of students.

i was particularly interested in having students question their assumptions and learn something about themselves they may not before have realized. SELF MOTIVATION.

It is important to use multiple sources when evaluating a course and determining the need for a revision.  An instructor can use student evaluations, peer reviews, reviewing course grade, scanning the syllabus, and performing pretest/posttest to determine the knowledge acquired.

Hello.  It's important for an online instructor to provide substantive, written feedback on the students' assignments.  The students show review the feedback and make any corrections in the next homework assignment.  It's important for the students to understand the time value of money in finance courses.

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John Halstead

Since it is so important for students to receive prompt feedback (recommended that exams be graded and returned by the next class ), then what would you suggest is a fair proportion for contact hours (classroom) and non-contact (prep time)? I find it diffiuclt to have all assignments graded within 24hrs when teaching a full caseload without taking them home and using my personal and family time to do this. This is becoming a hotbed issue since I put so much of myself into my work (on and off the clock) and my family time is sacrificed so I can… >>>

Retention of students is a focus i have.  it has been a challenging with the diversity of age, culture and educational background the courses I have been teaching have.  I have worked hard to engage my expertise, passion and enthusiasm into my lesson plans but still have found challenges to retaining some students.  I appreciated the ideas of discovering the why the student is in the class and then utilizing the strategies to keep them engaged.  Praise and positive feedback is so important and I believe I can do even more of this.  I also need to ask more about… >>>

  ED 205  was a  very informative course .

I like the first half of this course. Great ideas, really made me think about my own classroom. The second half....meh...not so much. 

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This course helped me understand the importnace of Lesson Planning and gave me valuable information to implement into the classroom.

The soft skill course helped me to identify areas in which I can improve upon in my teaching and relating to my students.  As well as being better equipped to teach them better sof skills as well.

I really enjoyed the content of this course. It was very helpful and supportive in providing the information that I need to tailor my lectures and presentation. I really like the pointers and tips. I think that after this course I am more equipped to lecture and interact with students effectively.

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