It is the feedback for me. It tells me if my student have recieved and I have delivered the material. My tests are also part of my teaching strtegy. When student are fresh at their errors, it is imparative to go over the tested material. This provides a better association and learning from the mistakes. Waiting for the next visit may be too late. Learning from our mistakes creates a window of learning opportunity which is often overlooked in my view.

Knowlege of the standards of the field is highly essential in creating the foundation of learning. I always assess the basic knowledge in my students before going further. Only then, the students and I, together will step into a higher level of abstract and conceptual learning.

I allow late work, using a penalty to reduce their grade. But in talking to some of my colleagues, I've noticed that some of them do not allow late submissions at all. Is this a reasonable approach, and if so, what are the positives and negatives?

I modularize my in-class assignments based on subjects covered. If a class runs long and we aren't able to cover a subject, I can push it to next week and simply push that module from the current assignment to the one coming up next week. This works really well because it means that I can adjust the length of my modules across sessions. In other words, if I don't want to shorten this week's lesson, I don't have to, because I can make changes to next week's lesson. This is also easier because I can give some thought to next week's lesson outside of the classroom, which means the adjustment will be better (or at least better-planned).

I thought this was an interesting point from the presentation. I think it's easy to forget that the students work all day and can get bored even with fairly interesting material. Anything you can do to wake them up and refocus them on the material is useful. I do use slides when I feel like I have to, but one of the best pieces of advice I ever got from a dean was to ditch my slides in a knowledge-heavy class. I used the white board, handouts for key technical items, and demonstrations whenever possible. Made a big difference in the excitement level of the classroom and hopefully improved learning.

I've invited a lot of guest speakers over the years, but I tried something different recently, inviting a guest speaker who was quite a long ways away to talk to my class via Skype. It worked out really well. I don't think it had as much impact as if he had actually been present, but the fact that the speaker was responsive to student questions and had an interesting presentation overcame that lack of physical presence. In the end the students gave it a big thumbs up. One suggestion I have for doing this (or any other guest speaker) is to have some follow-up on a subsequent week. You can be pretty sure that the speaker will still be thinking about the visit for some time after (in general they love talking to college students and get quite a buzz from the experience), so I have the students make up a series of questions and I email them to the speaker a few days after the event. If the speaker replies (they always do), read/email his responses to the class. They'll appreciate the additional effort.

My policy is to review quizzes immediately after ir is taken. This allows my students to know immediately what they got wrong and have an opportunity to explain why they chose that option. It gives me an opportunity to teach them how to read and dissect nursing questions that require aqdvanced critical thinking skills. It also helps me to better understand why a question may be problematic and need to be revisedin the future and be dropped on this test.

Early on in my teaching carrier, I had hard time to manage my time. Often I would be running out of time and hover into the break time. With experience and having back up plans, I do not spread myself thin. I dont start a topic which I know I can not finish intime. Leaving the the topics half way through has had dire consequences for me. The students may not recall where we left out and I may be redundant. Once again, time management has reduced these issues in my work.

One of the strategies that I use to get to know my student is to have them do a life line with the most important events up to the present time that they have experienced. Or simply introduce themselves to the class, elaborate on reasons for taking my cource and their goals; and share one personal note if they wish. I start myself with a humorous introduction. This reduces the anxiety and makes me more personable to them. In this manner I gather loads of knowledge about my students, their potencies, and personalities. This also solidifies a bond between us which cohessively creates a rapport vital to my success.

I found that students are excited about extra credit. I try to offer extra credit when ever avaiable to do so.

I agree with the course content being a factor as it relates to determining an instructors' delivery. Some content is better presented using alternate methods.

Powerpoints can be very effective in getting the information across that is needed. However, there is such a thing as over killed with sounds and effects, I believe.

Understanding your personality is important. It is also important to be able to adjust in situations were personalities may clash.

How do you guys keep your students on task if you allow them to use their own laptops in class.

Ways to intigrate technology in the course could range from powerpoints, emailing students, haveing class material excessible on line or on the chool student portal to inviting students to text questions or comments to you. this could also include 'You Tubing' a demonstration.

Ultimatley a well compiled lesson plan contributes to you becoming a more efficient instructor and creating a positive learning enviroment.

It is important to allow time at the beginning and at the end of the class to allow for questions at the beginning and a review at the end of class. because there might not be questions on a topic it is important ot be able to stimulate questions. The class will like it if the class finishes early but they still need to see the value of the time spent in class so finishing too early will always alienate some of the class as they will feel short changed.

I use microsoft office suite and our college's online resource to deliver content

How does synthesis of the content enable students to retain more of the information?

what are some ways in which graphics could be used to enhance a syllabus?