What will inspire a student to be their best?

These things work the best when we encourage students to ask for advise. Instead of butting in.

Identify class leaders but don't let them get a big head

When lecturing, don't stand still or worse sit down!

It is importaint to use up to date technoligy in todays classrooms

What is a good way to keep the class more involved as the class goes on. I teach and evening class for 3 hours and want to be able to keep them engaged the whole time.

seems overall over the last 5 years Ive seen communication on all levels including question and answer decrease. Could this be a part of computer text message culture.

I wonder if the process of "thinking" and "learning" is changed by bringing technology into the classroom. In some ways, I can see the positive aspects of more current and available information as well as another way of effectively delivering instruction to a student. Something is missing. Maybe it is just the balance of learning leans too heavily toward the technical side. I am having a difficult time putting my finger on it but what about the interrelating skills and team activities in learning that went on before computers. Being an older teacher, I am able to view the change. Am I thinking the wrong way if I am wondering not only am I teaching skills and knowledge but also conveying an attitude toward learning when I teach?

I usually present demos by having everything laid out so the student can see if they have the correct tools and ingredients for the task. When doing the demo I breakdown each step and ask questions before moving on to the next step to make sure they have retained the info. During demos I also talk about points made through lecture prior to the demo.

When introducing myself and explaining my background, I always make it a point to let them know that I was in their shoes. I understand the feelings and nerves that they are going through and that its a human reaction that is to be expected. Trying to calm them with a joke or a walk around to give them a tour of their new kitchen usually seems to put them at ease.

This, probably more than anything in this lesson, struck a cord with me. I know it's true, and I've known it for a long time, but just seeing it now in print made me stop and ponder it anew. I've been teaching now for about 12 years, and early on I became of aware of something pretty profound. That when I started, I thought that I would be teaching what I knew to the students. In reality, though, it turned out to be that I found out WHAT I knew by trying to teach it. This really is the same idea as Most Learning Takes Places Outside of the Classroom. It takes place when you try to apply it at home, at work, in real life. It just so happened for me that my work WAS the classroom. As instructors, I think we all want to help students to learn, but I think it's also easy to forget that we aren't the end-all of their education. Education and learning have to continue beyond the classroom, and, as instructors, it's really our job to help give them the tools and training to succeed not so much IN but beyond the classroom. I think this has helped me today. And I don't know if I'm just a control freak or what because I'm already trying to come up with some ways now that I can bring Beyond the Classroom situations INTO the classroom. :-D

The content is good and adds a great deal of additional knowledge to teachers.

What do you do to keep the students in the back row as engaged as the students in the front?

I have not had much experience with that yet. But it is good to know if I do geta student with disability, how I can hepl them.

I have had some students in my classes. They seem very focused and try and work hard to be in my class and submit assignments and participate.

I feel that group assigents are admired by averarge or poor students. Good students dislike it as they feel like they are doing all the work . They are always more enthusiastic and do their part of the assignment well. I do agree that it helps students know each other better in a group. They make new friends, exchange phone no. etc. which works later on as they help each other and try to work on homework assignments togetehr as well.

One thing that I have done that helps and reminds students why they are here is having them set goals. I use this exercise with a class that is just starting. Every week when they meet with me about their grades, we go over the goal that they set for that week and see if they had met it or not.

The course is based around a series of problems that the students work through with you serving as a consultant and director.

How should a class sessions be structured ?

What portions of the content are germane to the learning goals/objectives?