The essential task of the educator is to arrange conditions of the learner’s environment so that processes of learning will be activated, supported, enhanced, and maintained!

Critical thinking has several aspects that we must emcompass all of them to the students. The creative critical thinking, reflective thinkingm and emotional intelligence all play a role as an educator. It takes a lot of effort and practice to become a critical thinker, and the techniques suggested will alwasy not only help the instructor, but ultimately the students' as well. As Instructors, we must learn how to adapt and prepare all different types of students, to enable them to be able to think critically in the field.

I think people forget one of the biggest benifits of attending a post secondary school is, discipline. I mean learning is always a top objective, but combining all of the aspects of school, it brings together the students ability to show being disciplined to be succesful. It encompasses many qualities needed to become succesful. Long term gratification instead of instrant which is where this society is going, so even if had equally qualified candidiates for a job, I would prefer the candidate who attended school even if it was in another discipline as going to school itslef shows many strong… >>>

Critical thinking is important in almost any discipline. It is important to teach our students this trait that is being lost, if we can utilize this in our teaching, the students will be better off since it is disappearing. 

It is important to teach the class as a whole rather than cater to individual students in regard to their learning styles. Have a multi-faceted/multi-sensory class while helping all students. I believe that where it's very difficult. You want all your students to learn well and do well on exams, however, you have to think about HOW to do it. We have to find what's the best way to teach our class. It isn't a cookie-cutter solution because every class is different.

These teaching theories are very interesting to me. The duality makes sense to me because it is important to know that some individuals are "right-minded" and "left-minded". Catering to this would be beneficial when teaching. I believe that using games in the classroom is beneficial when the audience is interested in them. I have come across adult patients in the hospital who wasn't interested in playing games when learning about new skills.

Having adult students control their own learning is very efficient. I believe that this is effective only if most of the adult students are at the same level of knowledge. There may be some adult students that could be slower than the others and need extra time. 

I believe that each developmental theory is helpful when looking into adult learning. Overall, it's important to be mindful in regards to what our adult learner is experiencing in their current life stage. We can speculate through models and theories, however, I believe it would be best just to talk and build rapport with them in order to get to know them at a personal level.

I've worked with babies, children, and adolescents. When working and/or teaching adults, it's always good to talk to them at their level. We are both adults. Adults have roles, responsibilities, and experiences for a long time and it may not be easy to be a student because of them. It is also important to understand their situation and be compassionate if they don't perform like the other students.

It was interesting to see the seven types of intelligence listed and it makes sense that it's the combination of them that makes us unique and more (or less) able to be good problem solvers.  

"They just don't want to accept those answers so they call in hoping to get more palatable answers." - this reminds me of "people ask for an opinion hoping they can hear their own opinion but in a different voice."