Best/effective teachers prepare for each class with the philosophy that their role is to accomplish the learning outcomes of the course as well as inspiring students to continue to learn. They pay attention to the complexity of the learning process that includes critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and curiosity to name a few.

One of the age old questions (at least in my old age) is does it really matter when a students achieves a learning objective? If they miss something on a quiz but get it on the final should that be taken into account in the final grade. Although we live in a competitive world and there is a keen focus on "grades", isn't the bottom line that the student ultimately masters the subject matter not that they do it on our (arbitrary) timeline? Any thoughts.

"Don't read the text on the slide. Make "ad-lib" remarks or supportive commentary about the slide. This gives students additional information about the material that is being presented." This is the single most important and most abused behavior in the classroom today, even amongst experienced instuctors. It is incumbent on every instructor to make sure that they don't fall into this trap. There is nothing wrong with allowing the students to read the slides themselves without hearing the sound of our own voices. I would even go so far as to suggest that you appoint a student the responsibity of pointing out if you start reading the slides.

I didn't see anything on this idea in the module. As important and the ability to be introspective is in developing as an IDE, we need to actively encourage our students to provide feedback, anonymously if necessary, and take a good hard look at their comments. They are the customer and their thoughts matter and can be extremely useful in helping us see ourselves from the other side of the podium.

The Belenky, et al summary of women's ways of knowing I think is important in this discussion. They identified the stages of knowing progressing from silence, received knowledge, subjective knowledge, procedural knowledge to constructed knowledge. As instructors/facilitators/teachers, I believe these stages of knowledge are a valuable framework for the development and delivery of our courses whatever instructional setting we are in.

I find that power point keep the student ingaged in the lectures. I also use this to keep myself on track & not go to far off trach, I also see tat the student take better notes, so they dont have to read my chicken scrach on the board. Chart work will with the pp presentation also. I found out it helps out a lot in my classes.

I think extra credit is ok as long as everyone is given the same opportunity to get it but it should only be up to 5 pints it is 0 or 5 no 1/2 points

I think they can be good but you can not fill PP with to much stuff

Extra credit should not be used. It is not fair for student who do all of their work.

Pretests are a good tool to help identfy weak students.

The best tool for learning.

Just taking one extra step. Makes a big diffrence in keepin the class in order.

In clinical setting the grade is PASS or NOT PASS. How can I emphesize good students?

I have a student that every time someone needs to perform a new skill she gets histerical. She would ask the person "are you sure you can do it? Sit and think it through, You are so brave for trying" I have to shoosh her. She is so histerical that she refuses to try staff herself. How can I help her. I even tried few times to "walk her throu" the steps without success

When a student needs to do a new skill, he/she verbilized to me fisrt the steps that requires for the skill. Then if he/she agrees more students are coming to watch and learn

Sometimes I think that I am ore excited about nursing than some of my students. The students know that we need to help the patients eat meals but sometimes the students are taking long lunch themselves and do not help the patients. I would be the only one that help. When I ask them why they did not help they would normally response "helping patients eat is a CNA job" I response that there is nothing like "CNA job" and that there are more RNs than CNA and that they can help. I also say that helping with feeding is a great way to reassess and comunicate with their patients. They will node their heads, help for a day or two and then will take long lunch again,

I have very large classes 23, to 25 students. I like playing games but not very good at it. I would love some suggestions.

stick to course objectives

Use power point and hand outs

Read beforehand