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Juan Masotta
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I had to re-take ed101 after two years to renew my certificate, and I'm really glad I did. It's always so great to refresh tools, concepts and approaches that enhance our teaching experience. Great class!
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This course was a great help to improve my teaching skills, especially when it comes to students with disabilities. I also got inspirational moments from concepts such as monitoring and "floating" around the room. Very useful!!
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I throughly enjoyed the ED104 course. It made very clear points on some of my own weak spots as an instructor and how to solve them, and also suggested very effective ways to deal with problematic students. I'll make sure to keep these concepts in mind for my next class!. I would recommend my colleagues to take this course, it was very informative.
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I thought I'd share my experience of class introductions. hopefully, some will find my approach useful and some will give me some pointers to make it better. :) When I start a new class and introduce myself, I tell the students where I'm from, where I grew up and the studies I've realized in the field. Then I tell them my professional experience and current occupations and music-reated projects (I am a teacher of electronic music). Then I ask their names, hometown, music background, reasons to choose this particular career, and what they think of themselves regarding the industry (DJ,… >>>
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Something similar happened to me, some of the techniques described by the course I was already putting in practice because it seemed to be common sense. Now I know why these approaches work so well.