Instructional Planning & Design

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Tornetta Chism-Hall

Taking advantage of classroom outing

This is the perfect time to see your student in there own world and know more about there indvidual personality. This makes placement for extern more easier since you have had the opportunity to see the student outside the classroom.

Jessica Pepe

Field Trip

I feel that field trips not only add to the students learning, but gives them such a good opportunity to network.

Diane Washington

Objectives in the Classroom

Objectives on the board helps to guide each student throughout the class session.

Gena Lora CHEP

fairness in grading

Being fair and understanding with students goes along way. Students can have a great deal of stress over grades, so by providing them their graded exams quickly help to decrease this stress.

Gena Lora CHEP

learning styles

Course content and learning styles have to be mangaged for all of the students to get the most from the material. when the content is to difficult for some students it might have to be presented a little differently for them to really grasp it.

Mary Jo Gore CHEP

Field Trip

I went on my very first field trip with my students just last week. It was positive as it broke the monotony of the classroom setting and also brought back some passion. It almost reset them and refocused on the main reason they are in school.

Carmella Hoover

Organizational skills reflection of who we are

I believe that organizational skills are not only the result of education and training, but an extension of the person we really are as well.

Joseph Bork

Extra Credit

I am thinking that I should give extra credit more as a tool for work that is outside and additional to the required work and not because they did an exemplary job.

Joseph Bork

Pre-Testing

I think this helps those students who may have had a tough time with the reading portion of the class and tees up the material that I present.

AndrÃ© Grosz

evauluations

always keep your grade book current, give test back the next day.

AndrÃ© Grosz

making it interesting

changing groups size activities will help keep focus, keep it fun.

AndrÃ© Grosz

preparedness

you have to be prepared everyday from class, if not it sets an bad example for the entire class.

AndrÃ© Grosz

instructing

one must evaluate the class in order to see what style will fit the whole of the class.

FERDINAND URMAZA

colored paper

Using colored paper for handouts is a very practical but an effective method of making instructional materials easy to sort out by the students. It is a very good idea to use to break the "monotony" of the white paper. I will start using this. Thanks for a very nice tip.

Ceola Donald CRI, AAS

Selecting instructional delivery methods

I teach court reporting students, so applying knowledge to skill is a very important part of their learning process. The message must be delivered through demonstration, total hands on. In the delivery, the steps must be organized and the presentation must be clean ( a clear understanding ). This is an area of learning where it's a tough call if the student will benefit from either instructional method mentioned. If I had to choose, I would probably choose the overhead.

Ceola Donald CRI, AAS

Guest Speakers

In Career Colleges, a guest speaker is a very important factor for our students. Speakers that present their "testimony" of how they gained success, is like an " energy boost" for the student. I always like pros and cons from guest speakers . It outlines the whole picture of the career rather than just keeping it one sided. Two thumbs up for guest speakers.

Deborah Polynice