..allows for critical evaluating.

..helps to bridge learning with future career opportunities.

Working in Student Services, we monitor the IEPs for our students. Many of these students assume that their IEP will follow them in College. Although we make necessary accommodations for the students, we are not bound by law to follow the IEP in Higher Education. Students feel as though there should be continued support as they feel they still need. How can we possibly accommodate these students and prepare them at the same time for their career?

Students always sit next to or near someone they know. Therefore I have them count off by #s to get them into a group with student they do not know and have to work with in order to accomplish a task. I find this effective because students are forced to interact with someone they may not have otherwise. in preparing our students for the workforce, they will have to work w/ individuals from diverse backgrounds. We are obligated to provide an educational enviornment, and communication and appropriate interaction skills may not be consistent for each student. They can learn from one another and learn how to respect one another as oppposed to just judging someone by their appearance.

I use the enitre classroom to my advantage. I like to be interactive and I feel that it transfers over to my students in the classroom. Student engagement is very important in the Sociology class I teach because we discuss current societal issues that students can actively particpiate and share personal stories. I walk around the room so that everyone feels invovled and so I can be connected to each student, even if they do not like to participate. I do not know how to be still for longer than 3-5 mins, but I do not pace. I like to consider it "working the room."

to creat an atmoshpere for learning you must having the seating arrange where you students fill like they have plenty of personal space and that they are in an environment where they can make choises.

you must have order in your class in orders for the learners to learn and stay focuse. i have just learned the sat method and i have and will be using this method to keep the order in my class and to keep the learners learning.

Education can be considered as an art of providing quality information to students with the expectation that everything they learned from the classroom environment can be applied in the outside world. An instructor should remember providing quality education and at the same time continuously motivate students to achieve their goals. Fulfilling this objectives makes an instructor a "champion" in his or her field. Providing quality education helps students in so many areas of their lives and by giving them high motivation their confidence level will go also at a high level.

I find Video taping lectures and demonstrations very helpful. You see everything good and bad on the tape. A very good way to see ones own mannerism, gestures and voice projection. A good to way learn from it and improve for future lectures.

Moving back and forth in front of the class while lecturing is very frustrating. It is hard to pay attention while a person is moving back and forth like a pendulum.

It is important to have a brief eye contact to see that students are getting what is being said.

Love my students when they get excited about the subject matter and learn from each ithers styles............takes a while to figure out the individual needs........would like more on this topic to more quickly determine each students style.....they are only with us for a short time........better results if I could assess them more quickly.......

I ask alot of Q& A.......looking for more interactive questions and perhaps games to involve student more in the content they struggle with.

I have learned valuable data regarding the new test I will be writting.........bravo....

I fund testing in our format challenging and sometimes inefective to the subject matter.

I teach both online and onground courses. What are some strategies for assessing learning styles in both formats?

Dr. Meers, I recently began teaching for the first time. I believe I have the confidence needed to succeed, however I have a few students who I believe try to intimidate me. Since I am a younger instructor, I know they try to see what they can get away with because I am a "rookie". Is there any advise they you can give that will help me gain a little more control over my class?

There is a major problem with visual learners I believe... Here is my theory; The action of spoon feeding your students (or anybody for that matter) with visual elements like video or picture driven example, will not be as effective as you think. You are actually crippling them for the future. By giving them a finished product or a processed piece of information, you are not allowing them to use their thought process to reveal this information for themselves. Our society has become lazy in teaching of our children for the future. I could expand, but I would end up writing a book. Example: Watching a movie vs reading a book... I also note that, I myself have been categorized as a visual learner, but I acknowledge my weaknesses and plan to correct them.

Since students learn through a variety of different techniques it is important to include a variety of delivery methods. The method of delivery also depends upon the level of proficiency of the students. I have found that the proficiency plays an important role in deciding which delivery methods will be most effective.

I used to teach in the veterinary technology program for the school I work for and found it difficult to incorporate different styles of learning because the very nature of the class is demo/hands-on. In order to cover different learning styles, I make sure to mix up my styles with each class. I lecture, have hands on sections and do group activities. Most of my students were very hands on, so lecturing really bored the students. I tried to spice up the lectures by adding more visually appealing things, by using videos and real pictures to illustrate parts of the lecture. For reviewing for exams, I have each student come up with three questions/answers. We would review as two teams with prizes available for the winning team.