Ehab Ghandour

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I enjoyed this course, it gave me a good idea about the choices I should make when it to exams and testing, though I would like to know more about the techniques of building up a good multiple choice questions, I would like to know also about the ways standardized test are built up.

Thank you my instructor Susan Polick

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Am I a scholar, a writer, an entertainer, a comedian or instructor??

I liked this phrase in the text! it pretty tiring task to gain the attention of your students for 2 hour lecture, I hope that one of my students would answer this question in behalf of me!! I believe that I should be all of the above at the same time, especially when it come to the entertainer part! I through jokes that are relevant to the class talk about movies that are relevant to the subject, and then return to main subject, I think this alteration between being serious and being funny would give the student a mind break

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MY usual first day

As a teacher in college that use the quadrant system; I have to meet new student every one and a half months, that means I meet many studenta for the first time. Usually I introduce myself at the beginnig then. after letting the students to introduce them self I try to make some joke about my life as a student, show them how beautiful and interesting is college life despite the stress of studying, I would use some examples of how the science I'm teaching apply to some popular movies, like " the whole nine yards" when I teach dental… >>>

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selecting supplemental material

I feel that nowadays the access to supplemental material through the internet gave a big push for the educational process, but one of the major problems I faced when I ask the students to make a presentation is their negligence of the proper resources to take from. usually they follow the first google link appears on the subject, it seem that the more credible resources are more difficult to browse than the commercial sites

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The importance of body movement when instructing students

I've common way of instructing on both videos provided by the harvard university, the instructor were energetic moving around the class, representing the meaning with their hands, that keep the students awake in the lecture room.