Instructional Planning & Design

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Algevis Wrench

Powerpoints

I am giving powerpoints ready to use from the book use in class. I try to go over them using the relevant information for the class and adding more material I feel the student need to understand the topic.

Algevis Wrench

Organization

Organizing the lectures and preparing for class allows me to managed time class for efficiently as well as teach the information to the students in a way that is easily for them to understand.

Jeffrey Carducci

Embrace Technology

I see Instructors shy away from the wonderful world of technology and it drives me crazy.

David Hladik

Grading

I find grading is very essential to learning, without grades there is no way to evaluate a student, or know if there is any concerns. With grades you have better idea how to start to address the concerns. I found taking the student aside ask what area of concern if is the topic or sometimes it is an issue outside school,in that case the student can be refered to the right person.

deborah babich

Making class interesting

I find that incorporating a lot of different teaching strategies into a class makes it interesting and at the same time addresses different learning styles. Playing videos, introducing games for learning and sharing real-life experiences helps. Students get bored if all a teacher does is read lecture notes and then gives tests.

Jeannette Young

Intelligence Based Knowledge

A pretest will give you a better Idea of where your students stand.

Jeannette Young

How Do I follow the guideliness

Sometimes it is very difficult to always follow the guidelines is you have students who are slow learners.

Jeannette Young

How To Handle Behavior Problems

I have trouble handling students with behavior problems, can you help me.

Jeannette Young

How Should an Instructor Approach a Situation With Slower Students

You don't want the rest of your class to fall behind because you have a couple of slower students, how should you handle this types of students?

Jeannette Young

Pre Assessment

I think that a pre test will give an instructor a clear view of what students know and do not know.

Troy Beach CHEP

Integrating Technology

I use power point for all lectures, I also direct my students to some of the different web site available if they are relevent to the lesson

Troy Beach CHEP

Understanding Learning Objectives

Our objectives are layed out in the student workbook, I cover what we will be learning and why at the start of each day. Hopefully the student has read over that lesson plan the night before So they already have an idea of what is going to be taught that day.

Troy Beach CHEP

Documenting Your Lesson Plans

Writing our lesson plan I took into concideration that someone with less experiance than myself will have to teach this course as well. Putting in a step by step "how to" for the student anso helps with a covering or "sub" for the day

Troy Beach CHEP

Identifying Student Knowledge

I teach a couple different classes the first course I am in is an interductery course. Using real life exaples keep the student interested on how this is relevent to his future in the field. The other course is at the end of the program, using a pre test lets me know how much they have retained

Aubrey Borba

Clicker Tests

Something that I found really helpful was the use of clicker tests. At the end of my lecture, pending time of course, I would do a review test of the chapters I just lectured on. The students would be able to answer the questions without fear of missing one and being docked points. It was a great way to involve class participation as well as review and Q&A time.

Leveda Shaw

Preparation

Preparing lessons plans is so beneficial to any instructor, and being very knowledgeable of the subject that is being presented gives the instructor a greater learning outcome.

Leveda Shaw

Previous Experience

Many of my students have had some level of training in the college setting, which can turn out to be a positive or a negative. Due to years of applying knowledge a certain way, it hinders them from being able to apply new technology. As an instructor this is where my challenges come from, assessments really help to break down many of these barriers.

Leveda Shaw