my solution to managing the class is to cover the material completely then reinforce the content in the shop.

When a class is large enough, it is possible to see a couple of students hiding in the back and stealthily using their phones beneath their desk. My solution to this problem is to stop the lecture and just look at them. After a few seconds, the students who are paying attention start to laugh nervously. As the student with the phone realizes he or she has become the center of attention, they tend to modify their behavior. Students will modify their behavior more effectively when their own peers signal that what they are doing is inappropriate.

There is never enough time to prepare

I really enjoy the questions

The first day can be very exciting with meeting new people

Dental lectures are the best when showing videos and hands-on?

Is the open and closed questioning concept similar to Socratic questioning?

I am new to instructing... Any helpful tips??

On the first day of class is it adequate to jump into a subject or should it be more relaxed with a explanation of syllabus, and outcome to expect from the course? Thanks in advance, Mark

I recently became an instructor and just finished a course on Effective Teaching Stratagies. I read that different styles may be used to grab the attention of your students. Well something that I am good at and people tend to love me for it, is my sense of humor. Is this a good and effective way to teach? I've gone over some lecture plans and see lots of areas where I can incorporate some appropriate humor in my lectures. Thank you, Sammy P.

Question setting is very important. Which will give the instructors feedback. It will never be same for all courses. Every course needs its own ways of assesment. Instructors should research and verify different standerized tests before setting the tests.

In the career education that is our goal. As an instructor we make sure that students learn exactly what they have to do in the workfield. That is the reason we sent them for internship. And we collect the performance report from the internship site before we certify them.

What can i do to help my students remember a vast amount of info that is being covered in a short amount of time?

It is really an art to involve everybodies in the class. Which is not an easy task. But to have a good outcome it is imperative to involve everybody in the class. As an instructor we have to apply all the techniques available to involve all in the class.

Everybody has specific methods of learning. As an instructor with a large group of class it is always difficult to know everybodies preference.So it is always best to use multiple methods. Even everybody has their own preferences of learning methods. It does not mean they will not learn at all when other methods are used. So it is best for the instructors to use multiple methods. This way we can get the best results.

A careful and thorough review of concerns, with input from multiple sources (including parents, educators, physicians, psychologists, speech-language providers and, of course, the person themselves) is the only way to rule in or rule out a learning disability.

Educational research directed at working with diverse learners is replete with studies identifying best practices for closing the achievement gaps that persist by race/ethnicity, socio-economics, language, and disability.

Faculty can often assign more complex, authentic problems to groups of students than they could to individuals. Group work also introduces more unpredictability in teaching, since groups may approach tasks and solve problems in novel, interesting ways. This can be refreshing for instructors. Additionally, group assignments can be useful when there are a limited number of viable project topics to distribute among students. And they can reduce the number of final products instructors have to grade.

I’d like to say that the ability to make good eye contact is one of the social skills a lot of young men seem to be struggling with these days, which would be true, but I’ve encountered enough gaze-averting middle-aged men to know that it’s a multi-generational problem. And actually, it’s probably something men have always struggled with—females are on average better at making and holding eye contact than males, and in fact, it’s been found that the higher the levels of testosterone a fetus is exposed to in utero, the less eye contact they make as infants—across genders. Interestingly, the exception to this rule are male babies who have the very highest levels of T; they end up being as adept at eye contact as their female counterparts—alpha babies aren’t afraid to look you in the eye!

I have found that being prepared for a class session enables a more efficient learning environment.