need more on how to have students retain what they have learned.not dump it after they learn it

How do you get students to truly understand the reality of the career path they have chosen? Many have a false presumption of what the industry is about.

I feel question is a great way to real students in.

Power point presentation has become the main tool for content delivery. It is a powerful tool for content delivery. However I try to encourage my students to take notes during my lectures and read the required textbooks to supplement their learning.

The anxiety of meeting your class for the first time is mixed feeling. Well prepared and experience instructor who loves his or her job will feel happy to meet the class for the first time. If you are old in the profession it should be normal and relaxed atmosphere. For new Instructors it is a bit of a problem. With the increased in experience it just become normal and ordinary. The focus of that day is to know your students and therefore must try to know them in the first day.

I found planning and preparation very important in my teaching carrier. Especially the preparation of lesson notes. I have been instructor at many levels of education and have attended a lot of courses both in Africa and in the UK. In the Elementary and Middle school level teaching in some country where practice my teaching profession many years ago, it was compulsory for a teacher to prepare a lesson plan and lesson notes. These prepared documents are constantly inspected and approved by authorities. Failure to do so most of the time leads to sanctions.

I learn from this course that appearance of the Instructor is very important. When I started this course I have change the way I dress to my class. You may have a very good content and a good delivery but if you dress shabbily your student will not take you serious. Dressing presentable enforce the principle of being role model.

Approximately half of my class is ELL. While I feel that the lecture portion is somewhat absorbed, I lose them when it's time to take a test. There is very poor comprehension when reading the test, and it follows that the failure rate is high. I do not know how to fix this gap.

Sorry, Textbooks are by nature, boring and tedious. If an instructor wants to keep the students attention, then they must relate the subject to the real world. The world that the students live in, not the world that an instructor has read about in a book.

Make them clear, but be flexible and take into account the abilities of the student, not the knowledge of the instructor.

In planning course content, an instructor must also expect that not all students progress at the samne rate. Flexibility in course speed and presentations must be acceptable.

Moving your instructions outside of the classroom and out of the text book shows that an instructor is familiar with his/her course content. Simply following a syllabus and reciting the book can be performed by anyone.

I'm of the opinion that if I repeat key concepts all during the course of a semester, those concepts will be retained through some form of Recency, i.e. each new reference refreshes it in the "mental queue". Anyone have an opinion?

We all know how hard it is to get even the most basic supplies. It has been suggested that we "buy" a variety of tools such as colored markers and poster pads. What can we do as individual educators to transfer to our organizations the responsibility of investing in the right basic tools?

What are a few first day games.

How do you keep students interested in the subject.

Some teachers have music libraries of either stock music or loops that can be generated into longer pieces. The benefit of using this music is that it's no usually recognizable (and therefore, potentially distracting), and you can usually adjust the duration to any desired length.

While it may not be in the best interests of the teacher to "become one of the gang", nothing brings aloof students around faster than getting the impression that the teacher is one of them. What better way to do that than to acknowledge and celebrate when students have superior knowledge of a particular piece of subject matter. Of course, if the students are consistently more learned than the teacher, they will most definitely question the credentials of that teacher.

I am teaching a class for the first time. The instructor before me was supposed to provide previous material, but it has never arrived. I have put together the plan as best possible. Twice now additional information has been provided to me that puts additional expectations upon the students. At this point, I have approached the situation with a 'go with the flow' attitude and been honest about the changes as I become aware. I also want the students to not feel as though information was withheld. I presume honesty is the best policy, but I'd love to hear other ideas on managing changes as they arise.

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