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michael fattah
michael fattah

What to do when there's no disipline in class/school

from day #1 there is no consistency is school rules or polices
Barbara Kisakye
Barbara Kisakye

THEY teach me how to teach them

I have learned through experience that my student have a lot to do with what type of instructor I am going to be for them. After observing students during the first day of a course and solidifying of observations after the first quiz, I quickly develop a strategy of how my course delivery will be.
Barbara Kisakye
Barbara Kisakye

Meeting the instructor with the curious name....

I find that students have always been curious about me even before they meet me. That curiosity begins with my name as they all try to guess what my origin is and such. When they meet me for the first time, their curioisty tends to carry them throughout the course again, curious about my knowledge of the subject matter I am presenting. Fortunately for most of them, their curiosity leads them into understanding the subject matter and then later investigating how far the acquired knowledge will get them.
Barbara Kisakye
Barbara Kisakye

My plan

I usually have a general plan for each course that I teach, however, the real plan is sealed once I have idea of the avearge competence level of the students in the course.
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Post test review

I think it is a very good idea to have a post test review. It is not always convenient to do this during the class time as that takes away my lecture time. I do suggest to the students to come to my office and look at their test so that they know what they missed and that it is one way to make sure that they do not repeat that mistake again.
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Using formative evaluation methods

I give the students a quiz every week. The quiz is mainly on the material covered the previous week. I feel that when they are preparing for the quiz that does not include enourmous amount of information, they will study it in more detail. At mid quarter I do give them a more comprehensive test which includes all the material that was covered up to that point. The students say they are better prepared for the comprehensive tests because of the prior quizzes.
Deidra Williams
Deidra Williams

Professionalism

We as instructors should always act professional, because be professional show students how to be in the work field and at school.
Queen Couts
Queen Couts

Course Preparation

It takes time to prepare for courses, but it is well worth the time and effort you put into it. It will releive lots of stress. DO IT!!!
Queen Couts
Queen Couts

Getting Input from your Students

This is a valuable resource that must not be overlooked.
Queen Couts
Queen Couts

Using Enhancing Resources for Classes

This will help more than anything, along with knowing your subject matter.
Queen Couts
Queen Couts

Meeting my first class

It can be nerve racking at first, but then you observe and learn the student and you are well on your way to having a successful and meaningful class.
Ralph Durazo
Ralph Durazo

learning styles

as an instructor you must develop diffrent ways to present material to students because there are diffrent ways individuals learn the same material from same or diffrent instructor.
Ralph Durazo
Ralph Durazo

teaching technique

teaching techniques is something that has to be unique to every individual in front of students, because what may be a good teaching style for one individual may not have that same delivery for the next person.
Ralph Durazo
Ralph Durazo

apprachability

a facilitator must build a rapor with his or her students to be effective in their teaching to make them approachable by the students.
Ralph Durazo
Ralph Durazo

teaching approach

all teaching, no matter what is being facilitated requires a certain approach for its delivery and impact to be effective.
glenn ochi
glenn ochi CHEP

Early Demoes

Today during lecture i thought that i switch things up a bit and started with my demo plate of food. I used the debrief method as always but discussed the finer details of this dish, followed with the assembly of this tri-colored causa dish. I really noticed how much more my class was intuned with my demo and asked more questions at the end. The best part of today is that almost every team duplicated my dish and went out of the box on their presentation skills ^_^
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Questioning session as learning tools.

I make sure the students know that no question is a stupid question. I like to encourage even the quite student, who is reluctant to say anything by asking a question and giving a partial answer and asking the student to give me the rest of the answer. It often breaks the ice and the student opens up more.
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Questioning session as learning tools.

I often reward the student with extra credit points if the student gives me a correct answer on the topic that we are currently discussing or one that we have discussed previously. I will ask questions frequently during the lecture and I know that the students pay attention so that they can earn some credit points and they encourage me to keep asking questions.
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Knowing the learning styles of your students.

I know that it is not possible to target 100% of the class's learning style all the time. I do try to use Power point with a lot of diagrams (visual), Lecture (auditory), reading (written) and an assignment that involves labelling and coloring .
Marie Furtado
Marie Furtado

Creating a positive learning environment

I think it is very important to make the students feel that they can succeed and pass a course and to be successful they have to be in the class and together the instructor and the student can achieve what the students thought was impossible at the begining of the quarter. Making the students believe that they can do it is the half the battle.