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This course was helpful due to the fact that grading is a big part of an Instuctors daily teaching activities. Creating fair yet instructional means of testing is critical.

Having more than one teaching style

Having more than one teaching style helps you to reach out to all your different students. Our students learn in different ways and we need to be flexible enough to adapt to their learning styles by evaluarting ourselves and changing our styles of teaching whenever the class and or student dictates.

Soft skills

Students seem to learn soft skills at much different rates.

Field trips and and guest speakers

I like to use field trips and guest speakers to motivate my students. It also helps them to begin networking in the community.

Integrating Technology

What are some innovative ways that you integrate technology into your course?

Understanding Learning Objectives

Why is learning how to construct learning objectives an important part of instructional planning?

Using the Learning Taxonomy

What is the value of using the Learning Taxonomy as a guide in the development of lesson plans?

Using Standards as Guidelines

Why is it important to use your field standards as guidelines when selecting course content?

Documenting Your Lesson Plans

What is the purpose and value of documenting your lesson plans?

Selecting Course Content

What are some ways you go about selecting content for your course? If you are given standardized course content, how do you personalize it to your instructional style and the needs of your students?

having more than one teaching style

I felt the course want us to pick the one teaching style that fit us. I didn't feel like I fit anyone style but a bit of several. Anyone else feel that way?

sharing success stories, and defeats!

I use a lot of stories during my lectures (culinary) I noticed the ones that catch my student's attention the most, are the ones where I share my mistakes and defeats, it keeps everything in perspective, and emphasizes the growing curve we all go thru in our careers.

Power point and hands on tools

Thinking back at how my instructors taught, I really enjoyed hands on activities. I found these most interesting, and because of the repetition, I was able to develop the skill being taught. Today, Power Point gives the instructor the ability to make lectures more interesting through the use of slides and I feel is helpful in keeping the students of today more engaged.

Plan B

Most of us do not have plan B when we go to our classrooms. But I beive it is very essential.

Powepoint Presentation

main idea of preparing pointpower is to help students to understand better and give them break down the most important point of the subject.

Field trip

I strongly belive field trip is very helpful for our students to understand better how to implement their knowledge in to the real world.

Grading

in order to be fair to the students we have to very carefull when it comes grading. as we know there are many different types of students we have each one has a different personality and learning ability but the common goal is to be successful.We do accept sometimes the fact what students go thgrouh out their life and learn to connect them some wat to understand them better every efford we do for them will affect their ability to learn and will give them better opportunity improve their grades if needed.

School policy

My school has a crystal clear "no extra credit" policy. Students still come to me to ask for extra credit and I quote the policy. The student gives me some kind of attitude or an eyeroll. Later I find out other teachers are giving extra credit. To put it bluntly, this sucks.

Test Taking

This can be a very hard time for students so being able to help them in their time of need is key.

Having a back up plan

This is very important because students always want to know what's next.