The online lesson used an example of a "negasaurus" dinosaur to help control behavior. What other items could be used to control negative behavior or students that have lost interest in the lesson?

Too often I find that when it comes time to start planning for my classes, I am never in the environment that is conducive for me completing the process. Planning the proper setting will maximize how effective your planning will be or is just as important as preparing the lesson plan. Kudos to those of you who can work in a loud environment.

Students attention spans have short fuses. Your goal as an instructor is to be efficient and entertaining. Students need to not only learn the material you are lecturing, but as well must stay focused during your lecture. Finding that balance between the two is the key to delivering a great lecture.

First impressions are everything! Professionalism is the key. The way you walk, talk, dress and present yourself the first day will set the tone for how your students will acknowledge you the rest of the term.

I feel it is important to spend a week at a time devoting one's self to the next week's cirriculum. Study the material and prepare it in a way that the student will not only ontain, but understand. By far the most important aspect to teaching for me is preperation and planning.

Being a new instructor, I feel it is important to have the oppurtunity to observe your peers. The fellow instructors at your facility hold valuable tools and ideas that you as a new instructor can pick up on and possibly use in your teaching style. Everyone should be granted to the chance to watch their co-workers in action and absorb as much knowledge as they can from the expierence. Steve Carnahan II ST P.D.

I enjoyed the part about phrases that increase learning. The facilitator using the words.."This part you will find exciting, This will be easy for you, There are only right answers," is a positive way to get students attention. I will start using this method immediately.

a student with a poor back round in test taking or with some kind of disability can with a little attention and explaintion be able to inprove on their test grades.

life experiences can , if related to the subject of the day, help students understand what the real world is all about. this could be a benifit to someone in the future.

i have my students sit in the room on the first day of class and i than make a seating chart. the table we use seats 3 people and that becomes their team. this has worked very well for many years.

eye contact with your students is very important. by moving your eye contact rom student to student on a continous basis the students seem to fwel like you are talking to them directly. this improves their learning.

A couple of techniques that have worked for students with disabilities in my classes are allowing breaks and extending the time for tests. I am thinking that putting a box around the text might be effective as well, as this module's readings suggest. Some students do test better in a room alone, and I have found that some folks perform better if they are alone and can read the information aloud. That has helped some of my students with reading disabilities in the past.

I usually have a handout that I let my students pair up with. I have them ask questions about each other like tell me something some people may not know about you or if they are married with kids what their goals are, how they decided on this career etc. This really sparks up some good conversations. Then when they turn them into me it gives me a better understanding of who they are. I also ask if they are hands on or a viusal learner which helps me plan my classes better.

Without a doubt, vivid language that allows students to visualize more clearly what we're trying to express during a lecture. I use anecdotes and metaphors whenever possible, because I do believe it makes lectures more memorable for students. This was a good module. It is important to give students a clear sense of where each class is going, and key points need to be repeated and reinforced. I had a teacher once in a history class who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt and jumped up on a table, a la charging up Kettle Hill, and I don't go to that extreme, but I do think students like to see a "personality" in front of the room, rather than a droning lecturer.

I teach online. When I do my powerpoints I use pretty pictures from clip art to enhance the presentation slides. My students seem to specifically like landscape pictures. Sometimes, when what we are learning is complex, I put a "Moment of Peace" slide with a beautiful landscape picture. The students say they like it. This module seems to suggest that an instructor should only use visuals with a relationship to what is being taught. But I teach medical records so the landscapes provide a needed respite. What would you do?

I am proud of the fact that I have a learning disability as an Instructor! Yes it can still be difficult for myself to learn new material. I always let my students know about how I have this learning disability and how I have been able to overcome my disability thus far! I am a BSN RN and furthering my career/education for my PhD in Nursing Education for this very reason. I feel that we can motivate and encourage our students by sharing our life history with them. From what I have seen my students feel empowered to continue on in their nursing education after hearing how I have been able to overcome, thus far, my learing disabilities. It also opens my eyes to be more compassionate and understanding with how these students learn.

An instructor needs to maintain an open and humble minds set when it comes to technical instruction. As things change constantly and frequently. A student's personal experience may have them on the cutting edge. When you are not.

Being a musician i can relate to music as an overall source of calmness, it is very good for the soul.

I have been wondering if anybody else felt pressured to limit alternate activities due to the amount of content a particular course may require. Do instructors feel a time pressure when trying to include alternate activities in the classroom?

IT's always healthy to question students at the end or during lecture to keep them in check as well engaging the students, also for them to retain the infos.