Professional Development
Courses & Resources
Edit Group
Instructional Delivery & Assessment
About this Group
Public
Activity Feed Discussions Blogs Bookmarks Files
Sign in to engage with members of this group

Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.

michael adessa
michael adessa

Activities with out Relevance

I teach a Humanities class with an emphasis on Literature. Many students seldom read and do not enjoy reading activities and find the assignments hold no relevance to their career goals.
Jeremy Eaton
Jeremy Eaton

Power Point

Almost all of our courses have a premade power point presentations to go along with the lectures. We are able to modify the slides if we feel it is necessary. How much information should be on one slide in the form of text, and should all slides have a picture or graphic? Thanks for your help!
Jeremy Eaton
Jeremy Eaton

New Teacher, Old Class

I am starting to teach a class that has been together for over a year. They all know each other already. I intoduced myself on the first day, and then asked them if they had any questions about me. They did, and we spoke to long about me and my life. Was it a mistake to ask them if they had any questions about me? Should I just have introduced myself, and moved on?
Jeremy Eaton
Jeremy Eaton

Tangents

I'm lucky because my students are very interested in most of the material that we cover in our courses. However, sometimes we have to limit the level of detail that we can go into on certain topics. At times, we go off on tangents and class ends before I can finish everything in my lesson plan for the day. How can I curtail these sidetracks without hurting their enthusiasm? All the info that we discuss I would like them to know, but there's too much to talk about, and not enough time in the day! Thanks, Jeremy
Priscilla Alanis
Priscilla Alanis

Cardiovascular Sonography

Hello, I hope everyone is enjoying these courses. I'm very pleased with the information I have received from this course.
Richard Ernest
Richard Ernest

Questions

After taking this course, I realize now that I use A LOT of "Closed" questions. I need to learn to incorporate more "Open" questions in my lectures. Is it a bad idea to write them down and ask them that way?
Gerald Edgren
Gerald Edgren

Responding to Wrong Answers - Mathematics

As a mathematics instructor, I use questioning often, as a means of assessing student understanding (and my teaching). However, usually their responses are right on point or not. I can struggle with students who are way off track with their responses. I will praise and encourage their attempt, but I can sense a bit of disappointment on their face when I "gently" redirect/rephrase the question. Are there any other math instructors in this class who face a similar challenge?
louise lotte
louise lotte

helping students with dyslexia

Discussing how I can be of assistance is very important; also what has helped the student in the past.
louise lotte
louise lotte

learning groups

The forming of groups is a very good way of getting to know my students.
louise lotte
louise lotte

ELL

The introduction of new vocabulary to students , and making sure that the words are understood is very important in my classroom.
louise lotte
louise lotte

106- discovering my own style

I would like to keep a notebook to see what I am attempting in my classroom in order to improve my delivery style.
Ted Black
Ted Black

Types of questioning

There are 3 different types of questioning techniques. They are: Closed, open, and procedural. The closed question draws from your personal memory, open questions require more than simple recall, and procedural questions ask you to follow a certain set of steps. Open questions should be the crust of your questioning, engaging the student and forcing them to participate in the lecture.
iris klein
iris klein

Vusual test

I think for art students, test that includes multiple -choices with visual images is more effective.
iris klein
iris klein

Student assesment

This model was great help to how to biuld thoughtful and wellwrtten test.
iris klein
iris klein

Creating question regarding the new subject

After I took this course, I am getting better to get more questions and answers from my class. I create some questions and post them before lecture. After lecture, I ask class if there is any qyestion and I noticed that my preposted questions gave ideas and encouragement to students to think of their questions regarding the subject.
iris klein
iris klein

Student who has both writing and visual learning style

Always provide students who learn best through reaading and looking at pictures, with power point slides with good size of reading matreials.
Paul Savio
Paul Savio

Know It All Types

Another technique tfor a 'know it all' is to ask them to tell the other students where he/she learned about the topic. It could be a forum, another class, or themselves.
Chris OMeara
Chris OMeara CHEP

Active learning is great but.....

Testing needs to be rethought too. Students often understand the information, but can't pass tests. This leads to a return to passive learning. Tests do not care if you understand something or have the information memorized. Until testing methods are changed passive learning will be the norm.
Kelley Monroe
Kelley Monroe

learning preferences

I usually incorporate various methods of instruction as I am teaching. On the first day of class I have the students complete a learning style survey. This helps me to modify my teaching methods.
Kelley Monroe
Kelley Monroe

first meeting

I have learned to set the expectations on the first day and to set the bar high. I feel that it is easier to ease up than it is to get them under control later. If the students know what is expected than they will most likely be successful.