According your experience how you manage your time as Instructor

KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE AIMING AT AND WHO GIVES ONE CONFIDENCE, THEN GOALS WILL BE MET

TO KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR SUBJECT AND THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TEACHING IS PARAMOUNT TOYOUR PURPOSE.

Lesson plans help the teachers to go through each step. Lesson plans must contain all lesson and activities and keep you on track just in case you aren't able to finish your lesson plan in one class sitting you know exactly where to start for the next time you meet with that class again

Being in the IT field I usually ask 1. How many years have they been in the field? 2. Do they like the field? 3. What would they like to obtain with the class? General Questions but it helps me to get to know each student as an individual.

I am all making sure that the students are not so busy writing notes that they miss the extra information being discussed in the lecture. I also think it gives them an outline to help keep the students that write every word from asking questions just to slow the lecture down so they can write it down. It also provides a resource when they are not in class.

While the course ouline is defined in a syllabus, Daily Objectives can be a benefit for you and them. Leading off the day with the Objuective of the day and then after the lecture and day, ask the students if you met your objective. If not go back, if you think yes and they say no, it opens up some dialogue for clarification of the topic.

You would think that easy topics you could get awaya without a plan, but you need at least an outline to make it work. In specific terms to help keep you on target! Make sure you at least write on the white board the topics and issues you wish to cover and it will help get the material covered.

Enjoyed going through this lesson and would like to print out test for traveling and review, is there a chance in doing this? Thank you for having me think outside the box. I will review this lesson a few times from here on out. Can you give more examples of: what is training ? and what is instruction (other than the ones given)? I see how this would help our group of instructors. Aha! Thank you.

How would you present taking work time to observe other teaching styles, I would consider this cross training.

Should the make up exam be different from the primary exam if a student is absent?

I think rubrics are often underused by teachers, in that they are usually hidden in online classes. So, they are not easily accessible for students and therefor not often used by them. I also think students underestimate rubrics because they think they are tools for teachers and not for them. I have this habit of printing out the rubrics and telling at-risk students to use them as check-off lists.

The term metacognitive knowledge is interesting. I am currently in a master's program for library science and it resembles metadata, which is information about information. These terms seem silly, an almost redundant, but they are actually very useful. For instance, from a teaching or tutoring perspective, it is very important to know what you know so that you can properly transfer that knowledge to students.

We have found that documentation that is easily accessible to all coworkers has been key! For instance, we use the "G drive" to store important documents and files and anyone added to the network can access it. This comes in very handy in document sharing. There are web-based options for doc sharing as well, like Google docs.

I like the idea of learning about students and assessing their levels of knowledge, but I think it is very important to make the students comfortable when giving a pretest. Tests can cause anxiety, and starting off a class with a test risks scaring off some students.

AS an instructor in a culinary program we have to get through the demos and production set by the syllabus. When I say watch that clock - you have to do that or you are not going to get the info covered for them to be able to be successful in the next class. I keep it very light in my class and tell stories, jokes and experiences BUT I do tell them that if we are getting slowed down by anything that I will have to cut things short and that they are more than welcome to stay after to discuss question of confirm anything they are unsure of telling them to WRITE IT DOWN so that they remember later.

i thinkextra credit very important for student who may not be up to par but it allows the student a chance of success.

I teach at a career technical college. Since we instruct at such a fast pace, I am often correcting students behaviour, as well as surgical concepts. This some times paints a rather bleak picture of what is required to work in my chosen career. I find that a guest speaker has the ability to calm the students' preconceived anxieties while showing that this career choice is not nearly as bad as they might have thought!

As a video instructor I will often use video in my lectures, I don't like to go over two minutes, and longer videos I assign for homework. Is there a general rule about showing video in class?

Is role playing an effective tool to use when a topics are introduce to students?