I find with trade students love the hands on. It seems they pick up great knowledge from it.

Critical thinking requires reasoning and the ability to ask questions taking advantage of the many resources avaliable to the student. Critical thinkers need to know what 'makes then tick' so they know which angle to take when confronted with a paarticular situation and then over time judgement will be developed

to better understand critical thinking it is important to be patient to stand back assess the information and analize the content being presented. One should qestion and repeat critical thinking exercises to get a better understanding of it's benifits

It is very important to me as an Instructor to learn each students learning style. Everyong retains infomation differently.

I have found that within one class that there are students that have different levels of intellegence. Some are logical while others are more body/kinetic in their intellegence having to experience a problem before they can find a solution for it. The older the student the more analytical they tend to be and the better critical thinker. Do you think that experience is a critical factor?

I realize that scaffolding is a temporary device that is used to learn new information and strategic integration is developing learned stuff that can be applied. Does strategic integration replace scaffolding in the learnng process as the learner becomes more independent?

I plan to use judicious review to help students better integrate what they are learning into their skill set overtime to prevent automatic deletion so that they can transfer the new content/skill into a service learning experience that will help the students to increase their confidence and decrease the risk of failure.

The realization that instructors need to assist adult learners to reset their mind filters (deletion, distortion and generalization) so that they will be able to delete information that does not have relevancy and keep/store non-distorted knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in long-term memory to perform both concrete and abstract thinking will help me to better understand how to structure learning activities so that the student is not overwhelmed in the learning process.

I find it interesting that students discover their own strengths and weaknesses relating to short and long term memory. I find there are usually students who excel in practical or theory classes..I try to think of new ways to help them learn all of the information to help pass theory exams. The practical exams are usually easier for them.

While lecturing in any course I try to add both concrete, and abstract learning into class discussions. I have a hard time adding hands on learning to lecture courses though. Games are one way, but I do not use them. What other ways can I encorporate hands on learning into a lecture class?

Immersed in a land where there are so many different educational theories in the teaching universe created by so many theorists, predominantly male ones may I add, learning the MI theory by Howard Gardner was one of the best things I could ever learn because it made me very cognizant of my delivery and approach in different classes with different students. Personally, I feel this theory works seamlessly in conjunction with differentiated instruction and I feel it is when you lead a student to how they learn best that they actually will. So many students get discouraged so easily because they "studied" but it didn't work. They sat on their bed with the tv in the background, their text messages ringing endlessly and they stared at the book for 4 hours, so they therefore must do well on the test because they "studied." Or they then try the study methods of their classmates, like the ever challenging note cards. Kinesthetic learners use these so often, but after writing them out they never use them kinesthestically, and wonder why they don't work. But as educators, when we know the theories behind the practice, we can help guide our students into the right study and note taking practices that can best benefit them by understanding how they learn best. Students strong on Gardner's musical category seem amazed by the suggestion to sing their notes to their favorite song, or turn it into a rap, or to play reinforcing music in the background while studing. Personally I feel learning this theory was the most important of my career thus far, and if you can't tell by now, I certainly buy into the concept!

Many students have been out of school for many years that is way I feel the need to pre-test my students so it will give me a better idea, of what direction I might have to take with some of my slower based students.

As a instructor you must pre-test the students and it will help you assess your student's.

My personal way of thinking,that intelligence is something that is groomed.

In a classroom setting we will always have people who learn by seeing, hearing and doing. I incorporated all three methods in my classroom setting to ensure I will reach all my students J. Young, MBA

Are tutoring sessions considered to be a form of scaffolding?

Is it okay to review for the tests that the students are about to take? I find this a common feature with the different groups of students that i have had.

When talking about multiple intelligence, is that similar to what is referred to as "right-brained and left-brained" in psychology? I noticed you spoke about the lobes of the brain and what abilities each of the lobes is dominant in.

Is working memory also referred to as procedural memory? I am asking because long term memory is sometimes divided into semantic, procedural and episodic memories.

Technical resources is what i have used from time to time to allow students to look up the topic of discussion on their mobile devises and i then go around the room to discuss their findings and then as a class we analyze the results, then apply our daily recipes to what they found and problem solve so we can find a solution. I then ask them to compare the technique to their own cooking skills. The next lecture day everyone does a self assessment of what worked and what did not.