Denise,
Welcome to teaching. Your approach to your first class is a good one. With passion for your field and enthusiasm for teaching about it you are setting a very professional tone in your class. I wish you much success with your students because with 20 years of experience you are a storehouse of knowledge that needs to be shared.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I record my lectures and listen to them for errors and lack of enthusiasm. The first module in this course has been quite helpful and I look forward to applying new techniques.
I like the perspective that learning comes first and how important it is to admit mistakes. The dedication and integrity in this point of view is enlightening. I enjoyed watching your presentation style. It was engaging. What do you suggest for those who wish to develop an instructional style that is as engaging as yours?
Cleveland Sigh
My school provides me with a few different ways of of developing, refining, and enhancing my instructional. These ways include Maxknowledge classes, webinar classes, and professional conferences.
I plan on adding more interactive activities such as round robin q&a and timed answer games
Hello,
I've been a practicing health professional for over 20 years and am exploring teaching others the joy of my profession. I will teach my first term soon and this is my first teaching course. My instructional style will evolve as I teach. I want to make the subject come alive. I hope my enthusiasm is inspiring.
Rick,
What are some ways you treat your students as if they were on the job?
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
my instructional style is just fine... I treat my students as if we were on the job.
Phuong,
Right you are. This is how we can be supportive to our students as they strive to learn our content.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
What helps the most is having plenty of patience when you are teaching and finding out what technique each students learning stage are.
Benny,
You have a very good professional development plan laid out for yourself. As a result of this plan you are going to continue to expand your knowledge and expertise as a master educator. I wish you much continued success.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I am blessed to be able to work at a place where we are always doing workshops on all aspects of our job. I am constantly staging at restaurants to stay current. Also im going back to school and these classes are helping achieve my certified culinary educator title.
Jason,
Right you are. The more experience the more confidence can build and instruction improve.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Sylinda,
This is how you keep your instructional skills at their highest level. The constant we should seek is continual improvement.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
Alice,
Like the way you approach instructional preparation and delivery. You are both a seeker of knowledge as well as a deliverer. This is what keeps you sharp and prepared to share with your students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
When working with a very diverse group of students i find delivery methods are crucial to success. You must find a way to reach each student on their own level.
Experience! The more you teach, become familiar with content, shadow others, and model who you admire or respect, the more your instructional style will be refined.
There is a saying about picking appropriate friends and who you sorround yourself with is who you will become and how you will be percieved. The same follows true in teaching.
Experience! The more you teach, become familiar with content, shadow others, and model who you admire or respect, the more your instructional style will be refined.
There is a saying about picking appropriate friends and who you sorround yourself with is who you will become and how you will be percieved. The same follows true in teaching.
My techniques continue to change as my students change. I learn from seminars, peers, and my instructors being that I am taking classes as well.
When starting out as an instructor, I like to sit in other classrooms and observe my collegues with their teaching strategies. No one has the same type of teaching methods, so it would be useful to sit in different classrooms to learn knew ideas and how you can improve. One thing that I find very useful to me is being prepared. People have a sense in knowing how long you took to prepare for the class, and if you are not confident in what you are teaching, why should they take you seriously? I know that the professional appearance plays a part in it as well. If I see someone who is not dressed to fit the role, I will struggle to listen to what they have to say. We are our worse critic, and the same thing that we say about others we should say about ourselves; and take our own advise.
by learning names of my students and keeping thing simple and stright to the point.
