What should be the point criteria when a student turns in an assignment late? Lets consider late any time after the class was dismiss the day the assignment was do.

If you have a student that come to class without the background experiences needed to be successful in course and fair the pretest because it is a language problem, (foreign students for example), what can I do to keep him updated with the rest of the class?

"Make sure that the media you choose doesn't overpower you as the instructor." How can I be avoid this? Must of the time I use PP.

How can you keep the excitement of the trip engage in the purpose of the trip without losing the students attention?

Students like taking short straight forward tests, thus allowing the instructor to see whether they get the information or do not.

Using pretest materials will help you already gain an understanding of how the students will respond.

Power point presentations bring new and interesting ways to display information.

Acknowledgement of your own strengths and weaknesses will improve your instruction.

How do you know if you have to much information in your lesson plan? As a new instructor I do try and pick out the very important material that the students will need. Sometimes I feel as if I give them to much information. I just want to make sure they understand what Im teaching and showing them.

Agree that extracredit must be from the things they learn and should be in such a way that helps the students.and grading always should be handed in next class meeting

Tip! Creative animations in PowerPoint. Select the clipart you are working on. On the Drawing Tools – Format tab find the Group icon. From the dropdown select Ungroup. Say yes to the “Do you want to convert” dialog box. On the Drawing Tools – Format tab find the icon Group. From the dropdown select Ungroup a second time. Your clipart is now individual objects. You can move these objects by hand during your presentation, or apply animations from the animations tab. You can also create your own animations by duplicating the slide, moving an object on the second slide, duplicating, moving an object on the third slide…

I find that having too much on the plan is better than too little. I have in the past came up short withe to much time left. You do learn over the years to plan differently. Experience is the key to good lesson planning!

I always start my class with ice breakers, starting with myself. It usually turns out to be very informative, fun and relaxes everyone. It can be time consuming in a large class but, it is worth the time spent!

agree using media and professionalism is very important in any profession. I am an instructor in the health care field and I make every effort to to use media in diffrent forms. My goal is to train the student very well in thier field

One way that I have recently changed how I am giving information is by watching the students who have been through my classes before. I realized, after watching those students, that they weren't doing some of the things that I was sure I had taught them. My honest first thought was that they were just being lazy. Yes, that is harsh, but it was what I felt. It couldn't possibly be my fault they weren't doing what they were supposed to. WRONG!!!! The truth is that I had failed them. So now I have gone back and looked at what I am teaching, how I am teaching it, and who I am teaching it to. This has been a very recent adjustment, and it will be a little while before I see the results of these changes. I can only hope these changes will be helpful, and that my students will benefit from them. I guess one of the things I have learned is that how I teach what I teach should constantly be changing if it isn't working. Sounds simple, I guess, but it takes some of us longer to see what is right in front of us, unfortunately.

Our Generation Y students ability to reason is far less than the Generation X abilities. We need to understand that they are computer savvy and the don't need to reason, everything they need is on google. We need to revamp or teaching strategies and test giving skills for this group.

I usually mark questions in the book that I'm going to use for the next class.

It was good to brush up on the learning knowledge again.

I teach sonography so my students need to practice scanning on a daily basis. However, patients are not always easy to come by, especially when learning OB. My school has a simulator that looks like a real patient laying on the exam table. I am able to program the simulator with any and all pathologies, as well as pregnancy, to allow the students to practice their scanning.

This lesson gave me confirmation of how well I have been doing as an instructor and also allow me to add some new things to my lesson plans. There is no such thing as not getting information because we have been teaching for X number of year. This is my 16th year teaching and I'm still picking up notes and ideas from other instructors rather we are teaching the same subjects or not; I figure out how to make it work in my field.