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KEITH POWERS
KEITH POWERS

Delivering Course Content

Delivering course content in a easy and understandable way is so important for the students to know what they are about to learn throughout the course. It will also make for a more comfortable and relaxed learning environment.
KEITH POWERS
KEITH POWERS

Making a positive first impression

I believe by making a positive first impression on students will make them feel comfortable in their learning experience. If you show them positive energy the students will be more engaged in classroom activities and Lab activities as we'll. First impressions are very important when having a new class.
Aaron Thurmond
Aaron Thurmond

Redirection & Probing

As an instructor redirecting and probing assist you in getting more students to participate in classroom discussion. If the first student is correct, I often try to get several answers for the same question from my students.
Shawnte Footman
Shawnte Footman

Debriefing

We call debriefing, braindumping. I allow my students to "dump out" on to paper all that they have taken in. It amazes them that they have retained as much information as they have. We do this at the end of each section of a new subject.
Shawnte Footman
Shawnte Footman

Color Wheel

Once the introduction to the color wheel has been set in my color class, the students are only allowed to write in complinentary colrs. Ie, Red and green, violet and yellow and so on.Its a great reminder for them.
Jared Menghini
Jared Menghini

Students attention span

Make sure the student are focus on the ccntent if not make them do something they enjoy to encourage learning....
Jared Menghini
Jared Menghini

Guidance of class help

Encourage students to make decisions in the course so they feel more engaged with the course
Jared Menghini
Jared Menghini

Classromm time

Make sure to use your classroom time efficiently
Jared Menghini
Jared Menghini

Reading your audience

Understand when the students have heard you leacture enough...
Jermaine Marshall
Jermaine Marshall

Critical Thinking as Active Learning

Critical thinking is a self-directed phenomenon through which the human intellect is awakened. It constitutes a connection between ontology and epistemology.It engages in effective communication and problem solving. Critical thinking consists of brainstorming, analyzing, and prioritizing. the critical thinker is one who utilizes inductive and deductive forms of cognitive thinking in order to achieve solutions that resolve practical and theoretical problems within scholarship and other aspects of human life.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Learning diabilities

We are called upon to be compassionate and adapt our instructional methods to ensure that a student with a learning disablity understands the material.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Learning strategies

We are called upon to motivate and take the time out to help those that have other learning obstacles present, i.e English as a second language and adult learners with a limited vocabulary.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Working together

Assigning groups is a great way of sharing knowledge from different perspectives.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Attention

It's good to make eye contact with your students, because it helps you drive the point home to them as to the importance of making and in some cases maintaining eye contact.
KEITH POWERS
KEITH POWERS

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Proper planning will prevent poor performance in the classroom. Organization is also a very important strategy in being a successful Instructor, if you are not organized your students will pick up on that immediately and will make for a long day. Planning and organization are 2 vital parts of an Instructor's daily routine.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

The right test

It's good to have a variety of testing methods that will initiate thinking for the students and to allow them to see just how much they really know.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Sharing growth

It's good to share with the students the growth they have made and showing them just how much information they have retained.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Asking questions

It's great when students feel comfortable asking questions in class. We, as instructors should make sure that we presenting questions in a manner that engages class responses.
Marvis Burke
Marvis Burke

Learning Styles

Being able to teach in multiple learning styles helps students understand and retain the material.
Shannon McAteer
Shannon McAteer

Be, know, Do

One of the things I have learned throughout the years in the military and from over a decade of teaching at different levels, is to model the behavior of Be, Know and Do. Which is essentially what this model is saying as well. Be a professional by modeling appropriate behavior, know your content and audience, and do preparation and instruction. I think this model is very well done and reinforces what I have been taught over the years.