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Organizational Tools

Organizational tools are crucial to the success of a restaurant. If a chef cant stay organized, how do we make money? Whether through use of notebooks, haccp plans or even a notebook with preferred vendors, we must organize ourselves to remain profitable.

Clear Expectations

"A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link." Chef Instructors are leaders in the kitchen. We must lead by example and set clear and concise goals for our students. Expectations should be set high and we should adhere to set expextations to achieve success

Planning

As a Chef, planning is one of the most important aspects of our business. To succeed, chefs must be able to multi-task organization-wide using all of the resources provided.

My instructional philosophy

My instructional philosophy incorporates my past career experience and my past educational background. Which in my opinion peaks interest in students beacuse I am a LCB graduate who has achieved success in the culinary field.

Keeping students involved in class

I sometimes have a problem keeping our medical terminology students on task

Course Expectations

We go over course expectations all the time and the students like to be remined of what they are.

Using the course syllabus and course outline

If I didn't make the syllabus and course outline so important in my class the students would be lost, because we refer back to it quite often.

How students react the first day of class

It is really strange to me how students react the first day of class even though they have already had you for class before.

The first impression

the first impression is one of the most important thinks that the instructor have to keep on mind

syllabi

this is the first tool that you will use in the classroom

motivation

this is a great topic , because the education is based in the motivation.

How to keep students focused

Process of attraction of students the course material

Meeting the class for the 1st time

What should instructor expect when meeting a class for the first time?

first day class

Creating special learning tools for specific classes

moveing too fast

In a vocational school such as I teach in,we go through a class in three weeks,transitioning from one learning to anouther with 30 students.What can I do to better gage individual learning in such a fast paced inviornment?

Have Fun !

In the class or lab in my case I could make it hard on the students ,but I I find that you can have fun and get the Information out there and not make it HELL.

Getting started

I really enjoyed this part of the program. Especially because I have always been a true believer in making a good first impression. And, also setting the stage for a friendly class atmosphere.

Establishing a lesson plan and objectives

Where I work we are required by administration to write a weekly lesson plan along with our objectives for the students. It has been a very helpful tool for me, as well as, the students. We are all on the same page in knowing what is expected on a day to day, week to week basis.

VARK Learning Style Questionaire

I start of many of my developmental classes with this VARK Questionaire. This questionaire gives me a beat on what dominant learning styles are in my class. This is the starting point for designing lessons that tap into students' learning styles. The link to the PDF is http://www.vark-learn.com/documents/The%20VARK%20Questionnaire.pdf.

Hands On for my students

I find that most of my students learn from the hands on method.