Interesting about the Stars, B players and the Low performers.  I appreciated the comments on how to handle the Stars in class;  they are often the ones who answer questions and participate in discussions, to the detriment of the other students.  Pulling information and paying attention to the middle performers, of which an organization or classroom could be as many as 75%, is crucial to the success of the whole class, in my opinion.  Helpful.  Thanks.   

Usually I find that if 1 student has a question, there are 3 to 5 other students that have the same question, but are affraid to ask.

Best practice for lecturing has been, for me, as the instruction suggest, is to Practice, PRACtice, PRACTICE. Learn to be dramatic and interesting as you share the knowledge of your discipline.

We must always be adapting to change and I learned new things about the changing new generations of students.

I fond this course to be very helpful in start to flip my courses. 

When students arrive to class early, I begin discussing what they did to prepare for today. When I do this, students participate during lecture comparitivly more than before I started this practice.

I have been flipping the classroom for 10 years ---- just never knew there was a term for it!

I enjoyed this course.  The content is excellent for teaching and parenting.  All of the information presented can help in the professional workplace, teaching adult learners and teachng teenage students.

Very comprehensive first day list of "To-Do's"

cal.org is great!

It helps to enable student to have a great learning process

great  information

i make sure i greet every student as they walk in and have a little discussion about how they are all doing.

All of our students have tablets, and they are "connected" to the instructor via a program called LAN school.  This enables the instructor to take over their tablets and walk around the classroom; engaging the students as they are mobile.

Use what you have, use personal experiences to bring the course to life.

My 30 years as a RDH has equiped me with personal stories about life on the dental office and I use them often.  I encourage questions and discussions.  

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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.

I will impliment my changes in the classroom to be a more effective instructor.

This course was very effective in introducing terminology and examples of different active learning strategies. I appreciate the discussion of high vs low-risk activities and impact of active learning success. I will began to incorporate ways to make passive learning such as lectures more active by incorporating guided lectures, skeleton notes, impromptu discussions and calling on general students instead of utilizing hand raising. I also love the idea of having student debates as well.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course as it is very relative to the instruction we provide at our institution. Much of the material presented is applicable to what I do in simulation. One technique I plan on using is beginning with the end or outcome in mind. For example, in a course where we practice code blues I will begin with showing a clip of a perfectly run code blue (visual). Hands on (kinesthetic) instruction of CPR will follow on a mannequin. I will provide a written guide in colored paper and to evaluate their learning, I will create a crossword… >>>