David Marca

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I feel that the time spent for everyone to appropriately get to know each other is invaluable. I allow at least 15-30 minutes for this, and often use the "introduce someone else" technique.

David Marca

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Student Names

My biggest challenge is remembering student names. It's really important, and when I have, for example, three "Bills" in the class, I get confused ... Visual, not verbal is my strongest learning style.

David Marca

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Course Design

One thing I try to determine is the course design when I'm required to teach to an already given syllabus. It's important to know the underlying intent that drives the higher-level goals, objectives, activities, etc.

David Marca

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Learning versus Grades

I've been teaching for around 30 years in traditional and for-profit settings; ground and online. The biggest challenge I have faced is when a student goes for the grade and not the learning. anyone else ever experience that?