At our school all employees are encouraged to complete a short training that involves an intensive assessment of personality. The training is fun and people learn quite a bit about who they are how they relate to others.

it is very easy to loose focus when learning anything. it is important to keep things exciting in the classroom. we need to keep the students interested in learning.

Feild trip are a wonderful way to keep the excitment level high in the students. it can become boring learning in the same envirement day in day out. field trips are great to spice things up.

Should make up work not received the full grade?

Does answering Chapter questions help the students retain what they've learned?

Having field trips instead of lecture?

Quiz after chapter presentation

Can you evaluate daily???

Is being silent the best form of disipline?

what is the best way to create a pretest tool

It was interesting to learn about grading - it makes the past challenges from students come into perspective.

I always try to have a back up plan.

Thanks for the website to help develop effective power point presentations.

This is an interesting concept - I tried this last term and it worked wekk, although time was a cruncher. I will be more likely to continue this habit this term

I have had Guest Speakers come to my live College Success courses that I have taught. If I assigned a Project in an Excel course, for example, and a former student had a very organized and detailed project, I would ask them if they would be a Guest Speaker the next semester. It was a wonderful way to have students not only involved in their own classes but in classes that other students were enrolled in.

At times you have to go back to the beginning and start with the basics. You may have to put yourself in their shoes and see what thay see. You may fined that you have to teach things outside of the box to help put things back into prospective. People learn and study in different ways by books, training aids or both.

I have no choice but to give open book exams in Electrical Code classes. The text books even require "OPEN CODE BOOK' but the difference is that the actual text books used in class are not allowed to be used for the exam. The only book that the students are allowed to use for the exam is the "National Electrical Code". We are trying to prepare them to pass a "LICENSE" exam, in which understanding and how to use the code book is essential for passing and receiving their LICENSE. An "Open Book Exam" depends on the course and not opinions of OPEN BOOK in general.

Instructors need to be organized and prepared for their classes and students. I always try to be a step ahead. In drawing up my lesson plans, I try to have more information to go over (rather than less)and I also try to have an outline for lab time.

All of my students are in the health professions. A surgical technologist is not going to get credit for any late work and most likely they will be terminated. For that reason, i DO NOT OFFER ANY CREDIT FOR LATE WORK OR missed exams or quizzes!

I teach Medical Law and Ethics and while we do have a Review Challenge at the end of every chapter, we also do a lot of case studies and discussions. I have ben having difficulty deciding how to evaluate this since some students obviously participate more than others. I also am wary of giving those students that missed the discussions 0 points since it can be a major part of their grade, should I allow them to write their anwers to the case studies and give them some points or all the points?