Instructional Delivery & Assessment

Public

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.

Courtney Bliznik

Create A Leadership Team

It is important to have your students feel important and creating a leadership team helps students feel they are important to their school.

Courtney Bliznik

Asking Students What They Think

It is important to ask students what they think on certain subjects. It's a great way to start a group discussion.

Courtney Bliznik

Getting Students Involved

Teaching styles change quite a bit and adapting to your students' different styles makes a great impact on them.

Duane Rough

Computer based learning

I believe this is a great way to keep younger students engaged, as they are very used to working with electronic devices. It is also a great way to help students who aren't experienced computer users gain a needed skill set for the workplace.

Duane Rough

punctuality & organization

Being on-time and prepared, with all materials and hand-outs, will show you are a serious instructor and ready to teach!

kat daniel

text

What do you do when you are assigned a text, but you do not feel as though it is easy to understand? Do you go over before the students start to read it or after?

Minnie Glover

Learning Styles

It is extremely important to understand the learning styles of your students. This a great tool when imposing different learning tools and techniques in class

Tom Attaway

The Subject is Cheese

In the beginning of module 2, under the heading, "Learning Chains," there is a discussion on the principle of natural cheese versus artificial cheese. Would someone be kind enough to explain to me what the author is trying to say here? And how is this related to questioning and concept-principle learning? I have read and re-read this, and each time the disconnect becomes even greater. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Phil Finch

First Wait Times

I read with interest Jodi Mathews' topic of Second Wait Time, but I am interested in our educational department's inter-rater reliability in dealing with First Wait Times, especially for students who have English as a second language (ESL). I have nothing to report, but I will begin, from this point, to observe and to compare fellow instructors' wait times during our fairly new activity of Oral Exam. My best guess is that we all hurry the ESL student more than we hurry the English as native language person (ENL).

Robert Brown CHEP

changes

I sometimes move the room around in order to keep the class guessing. The students really stay more alert during class time.

Jarred Martin

Computer based learning

I teach a course where I have to give web based training as part of the curriculum. Sometimes it is very lengthy and my students get bored but because of my curriculum it has to get done in class. What can I do to help them feel more interested in what is going on?

Jarred Martin

Setting up a course

How long should you spend on your introduction of yourself and what is too much information?

Frank Glass CHEP

Questions?

I have found that many times the students hesitate to ask questions because they do not want to sound "stupid". They want the answer, but hope that some else will ask the same or similar question. I tell them that the only "stupid" question is the one that they do not ask. Reply

ELIZABETH LEE

testing students

its so nice to really and fully able to use and continue to use different types of testing to our students and also learning mor styles of testing techniques.

ROB VENDITTI CHEP

learning styles

Reconizing learning styles early on can be very effective for the sucess of the class.

Jarred Martin

Active Learning

I teach at a technical school so when I'm going threw my lectures I like to show my students real life examples with my lab task to relate back to my lectures. My question is I still get students that don't seem interested and stay disconnected to the rest of the class. How do I egage those students better so they participate in my class?

Donald Josefik

Challenged learners

As an instructor, I have developed what I call a 'Toolbox' of delivery methods that include using 'students that get it.' I will get other students involved because at this point, everyone wants to be the hero that got through to the challenged student. It is at this point that I become a traffic controller so that there is order, but this seldom fails.

Ted Black