When lecturing, I find that if I incorporate real life examples as well as props for example, if I am lecturing on the "Special Senses", I will bring in something sweet, salty, sour, etc and blindfold the students and actually have them use their senses so that they may experience it 1st hand which I find helps to not only engage the new learner but to have them retain the information as well.

I have certain expectations of my students, such as arriving on time, remaining until the end of the class period, being organized, preparred and ready to learn something new every day. How can I expect this of them if I do not set the standard which is why I make it a rule within our department to always be 3-5 days ahead of schedule, organized and preparred for the future start of a class.

Student should be evaluated through out their learning experience. Evaluating gives the student a great idea where they are doing great and where they need to improve. And for those student who have a low self esteem, a great evaluation can be a great boost..

Hitting back on the how important it is for an instructor to be prepared, to be flexable in all area's of teaching. Understand the different styles each student learns the best from, bringing all these aspects together and have great teaching strategies, spell success for students and instructor alike.

I have been an instructor for many years now but when I was new to teaching, I was shadowing another instructor who used the "crazy" teaching method and the students seemed to really enjoy the whole learning process and they were having a lot of fun in doing so. Over the years, I have developed several other methods of teaching but I find that students benefit most when I use the crazt teaching mathod.

I believe that students learn greatly by the example that is laid out by the Instructor. An Instructor who is ill prepared, is setting a horrible example for the student who already struggles with priorities and being prepared for everyday life issues.

The extra credit we offer on some exams just makes up for a question you might have missed. I would like to be able to offer something to the students that have to work harder than others but we have no policy for that. I just give them verbal praise for there progress. It seems to help but doesn't change there grade.

Back up plans are a must. But its easy to get off track if they dont relate to the subject. Just when you think you have seen every kind of learner there will be another style of person. I learn something new all the time.

I am a overhead and chalk board teacher in the classrooms. I can see that I need to keep it cleaner now after going thru this last module... It made a lot of sense to me

Having all the classroom content organized I think is a must. There are plenty of instructors that just dont understand that. They don't care for the classes or maybe they don't understand the content. But in the lab they are fine. Maybe they should spend a little more time before class getting ready. I think you should be there and ready well before your students. You are then ready to teach your class and they know that.

It is important to specify your grading system in the syllabus and give the syllabus on the first day of your class. I think is better to create a grading system in percentage then point system.The students know their grade in percentage.Keep informing the students about their grades like after mid term.

I agree pretest is a good tool to know where new students stand in the class.The instructor can work according with students.Status assessments are also important, this tells the progress of a student.

I found 10/20/30 rule for developing Power Point Presentation is very good and helpful.The common mistakes that instructors make when using chalk/white board can be avoided after studying this course.

Field trips are important.You can know your students more closely and they can prepare worksheets on things ,the instructor wants them to focus on.

Ifeel if you are not ready for classthe stundent will see this and not willing to show up or will be late for class because you don't show them you really what to teach them and care for them.

I teach electrical class's i like to grade on hand on projects we also take our stundent out doing work out in the field working with other people in the trades this lets the stundents fill they have done something good for someone else.

I gave a Student a B because after several times of explaining how important it is to submit work on time the Student still continued to submit it late. I deducted 10 points from the final grade. The Student was upset and said so you just decided to give me a B and ruin my 4.0 average. The student is angry and thinks its my fault. How do you handle something like that?

Most of us know the flow of a class that we have taught numerous times. What happens though if you start a new subject for the first time? I find it helpfull to plan learning activities that will be useful in making my students interested in the topic, fun, and engaging. These may or may not be used depending on timing of the class schedule. Remembering this should make the creation of what's in your back pocket an activity that reenforces class discussions but are not a replacement for what would considered to be a necessity to the course syllabus.

I evaluate every student and I try my best to see in my students effects and their accomplished.I reward them .

When these kind of situation starts happening my my class room, I always have enought to be work and the students know how you are, how you handle your class.I make every strategies to make it work in a class, be very patience.