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Yolanda, You are right that the on-line components could be cubersome, especially not well developed. However, I found it helpful for novice and experienced teachers if they are well organized.
In reality, I founnd quite a few good ones, but the bad ones sometimes became annoying and caused more confusion than actually helpful.
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Gary, This is fair as long as we all understand it is only one component.
It probably took a lot real-life situations to make everybod a better teacher, and hopefully what we learned from the classes could help out to deal with the situations gracefully.
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Perry,
This is a great point. We should all focus on the learning side than the teaching side, and help open the mind for active learning.
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The difference between a good and great teacher is that good teachers helps students to learn things, while great teachers motivate and inspire students. I tend to teach students how to catch the fish than feed them with fish, and become a good self-learner. However, you need to be aware of what your students really want. One strength I had over other teachers is my industrial experiences. I found it very effective to link real-life case studies to what they learned from the textbook. If you could show students where to use what they learned and motivate them to learn… >>>
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Most universities/colleges have a course development team to ensure proper content and textbooks were included. A pool of test questions is prepared to ensure consistency across the courses. It is also important to give the instructors flexibility to customize the course materials to better achieve the course goals/objectives. This also relieved the instructor from the burden of preparing the course in a one-of-kind manner. Another key part is to provide feedback to continuous improvement. I found places without a on-line component make it very unproductive, and the instructor has to spend a lot of time to prepare than to deliver… >>>
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This course over emphasized that taking classes as the most important thing for Professional Development.
I agreed that taking classes are critical to understand some theory behind to improve your Technical competency, and potentially your Professional and Personal competencies. However, I found real-life experiences and continuous improvements are more effective for me. I also found exchanging ideas with a peer are also very helpful to deal with specific situations.
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