About me

My name is Lazaro Pino-Rivero

I have a bachelor of Science in Chemistry and PhD from Universidad centrals de Las Villas, in Cuba.

I am teaching Chemistry at West Coast University for almost two years.

Also I teach at Miami Dade College since 2013, and before at Universidad Central de Las Villas for more than fifteen years.

I love teaching and doing research.

West Coast University is an interesting Institution where I enjoy teaching. Preparing the future nurses is for me one of the best thing that happened to me in my five years in USA.

Technology is not my strength, so appreciate any kind of help from all of you at any time.

My objective is to offer the best of me in this new way of teaching at West Coast University.

Thanks a lot.

Interests

sciences in general

Skills

research, analytic chemistry, chemistry of the materials

Activity

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Blog

Even when I have been teaching for several years, preparing my lesson plan and review every single activity is so important

Every term I take into account the problems I had the term before during my activities, so I change my activities, and style every term, because I learn more from my students, than they do from me.

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Blog

Different forms of learning

During this training, I have found answers to many questions during my life as a teacher. One of them is why many students being brilliant in class discussion of a problem applied to real life, were not able to have good results in traditional exams. The answer is here: not everyone has the same way of expressing what they have learned during class.
Now I feel better prepared for a blended course.

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Discussion

Multiple-Choice tests

Then: multiple choice tests are not going to be used in blended courses?

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Discussion

Give time to process the information

I think that this aspect of giving students time to process information, will be restricted in West Coast University in the seven days of the correspondig week, or I'm wrong?

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Discussion

Activities in the classroom

Please, anyone of you can give me specific examples of activities to be developed in the classroom, in such a way that the students could be motivated, and besides help to reinforce the dianamic learning process?

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Discussion

Digital Natives and me!

I was educated in a country where technology is in the hands of the government as an instrument of power. The Cuban people do not have access to information about what is happening in the world. And that's why I find it more difficult than any other of you, to master the computer tools. On the other hand I will use computer tools that students master much better than me. We are facing a generation that technology is part of their games, their daily entertainment, and handle it as easily as if it were incorporated into their chromosomes. However, my… >>>

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