David Steege

Assessing the knowledge and skills of students is a task that requires careful planning. What are the criteria you use for selecting a particular testing format and how do you determine how effective the format has been in allowing your students to demonstrate their new knowledge or skill base? In my multi-media class, I don’t have any test since the projects require students to demonstrate the ability to use the software most effectively. In other classes the test are a combination of multiple choice, SA, and matching to help me cover a large body of information but also require student… >>>

Why do instructors need to occasionally take time and “REFOCUS” themselves in order to be more effective with their students? It only natural that each of us gets caught up in the routine now and then especially when you get less and less prep time because your assigned other task to “cut cost” at your school during these hard economic times. REFOCUS allows you to set back and refocus on what is important (our students) and how to best reach them. This refocus time help me realize what is important (the student) and what isn’t important. It also helps me… >>>

I want to talk about VARK and how it improve students learning ability. The first key is to think in terms learns actives not lecture pointes. And think of how our students learn and are able to engage. V.A.R.K. is an acronym that helps understand explain the different way people can learn. VARK stand for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic. Traditional classes use primarily aural (hearing) as the primarily learn mode for teaching and schools traditionally use Reading/Write to assess students understanding of the material. My student are typically Visual (you need to show not tell them how some this… >>>