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Kelly King
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Leaders are nurturing, encouraging, energetic, and motivating. They are not sugar coaters, vague communicaotrs or ambiguous. This course reminded me that I don't have to be warm and fuzzy all the time to be effective.
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Similar to Juliana, I too am an instructor but I am also a doctoral student. I know what it's like to sit in a course and try to stay focused, or feel as though I'm one in a thousand and my input doesn't really matter. The personal touches to edcucation are crucial. Every student comes to us with different experiences and learning styles. Being an instructor means I have to invest in each of those students. Retention is crucial for the success of the school as well as sucess of our community.
The course was very infomative in reminding me the importance of writing as a form of communication. I am excited to build a writing assignment into each of our classes. We currently have presentation activities and group work however, I do not have the students submit actually writing assignments.
Thank you for the suggestions on making the assignments relevant to the courses I teach.
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@rsawitskas : This is such a great dialogue. Motivation is a moving target! First I think we need to challenge the students to ask themselves what motivates them... what makes them tick. Is it money, reaching a goal, pleasing their parents? Whatever it is, if I knew, I could play on that more.
I have students who are incredibly intrinsicly motivated. Then there are others I ask myself , why exactly are you here? Just to me crazy? Maybe that's their motivation... to make the instructor crazy. None the less, my lesson over the past few years has been that… >>>
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Hi William
The module for technology in the classroom was fantastic! ED119@willyhaun :
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I teach a 3 hour lecture on pathophysiolgy... this can be a real sleeper topic! I try to break it up every 20 minutes with pair and share, group brain dump at the white board, poll anywhere questions, etc. It can be a real challenge not to read the powerpoints because of the amount of information the students need to know. Any creative ideas for communcating such a huge amount of information would be appreciated
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There are so many great and exciting ooptions for using technology in the classroom. It can seem overwhelming to take a 3 hour lecture and break it apart. I would love to bring in polls, class interaction, and ask for student collaboration for study guides and reviews. I want to have the ppt info readily available. I currentlynemail it as an attachment. I teach pathophysiology and there is so much information in this course. I'm not sure where to start.
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This class had excellent suggestions for managing the difficult student (not that we ever have one :) ) I enjoyed (and took notes) on how to write a well written syllabus as well as common mistakes. I am relatively new to teaching and have many years of clinical experience. Bridging the gap has been exciting and challenging
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Susan Polick's course was very well organized and the information was very helpful for me as a relatively new educator. Creating tests and evaluating the student's knowledge is a challenge for me. I am grateful for the resources and reading the blogs about open book testing and test creation.
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I recenlty had a significant team issue with disagreement and outright refusal to work together. Initially I allowed this behavior, however, this was the wrong decision for the team. I brought everyone together, refocused on our team plan and goals and assigned collaborative projects to build team trust. It took several months but it worked out much better than I had anticipated.