Terry Hauser

I have found when students lack basic knowledge teaching from a completely different angle than what other instructors are using gets many on track.

Yvonne Kiernan, RN

I totally agree with you. I call this generation the "microwave" generation. They want everything now and want to be spoon fed. Trying to get them to critically think is a lot harder these days.

Manuel Molina

I feel that basic knowledge is slowly dissipating with the new generation of students. I call it the "entitled Gen" sometimes it gets very frustrating when students don't use common sense and basic knowledge, just think before they do... I wonder sometimes if they really don't have these skills or they just don't care.

Troy Mennis

Basic knowledge is used to show what the student knows.

Clifton Jones

During the setup involving presentation of mock surgery cases, all the students are given a model to start them in the direction of future development of their own particular styles of preparation of their back table & Mayo stand. Different approaches of tackling a task is encouraged in order that I may discern where their though processes are heading.

Deborah Helmlinger

Encouraging students to perfom different types of tasks helps us to know what direction to lead them with

Kenneth G. Bishop

I teach in the areas of Finance as well as in Management Information Systems. In both, the computer is used, a whole lot more in MIS than in Finance. I tend to insist my students never use Macros or built-in functions. It inhibits their understanding of the basic concepts.

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Penny Harrison

Skills performed by the students during class help me know that they understand the concept of what they are supposed to know

Rawn Wooden

my students demonstrate basic knowledge by there cooking skills