Since I became an Adjunct Instructor, I have prepared all my classes to accomodate students with learning Disabilities.

Because I have Dyslexia myself, I purposely created all my classes with the intention of teaching students with learning disabilities.

For the first day of the new course i am going to make sure to include an actvity that incorporates the students' prior knowledge and to add in an activity that points out the relevency of the new information.

i acknowledge tha tI w3ill be faced with many of the stated barriers to putting in active learning techniques into action.  Some of this is that I teach a lot of factual medical courses that move quickly.  I have and will continue to gradually add active learning methods to break up the lecture.  The balance is what I am still learning.  Lecture remains beneficial with the factual information (such as pathophysiology) but I include discussion often wehn we get to the most important sections.  I think the understanding of the barriers and the reinforcement that it is okay to develop… >>>

I like this course. I think I will first try the peripheral learning techniques and maybe try moving my students seating around in the cklassroom.

I will certainly try to implement some of the ideas. I especially liked the section on peripheral learning, which I will use. I also liked the ideas of incorporating music, which will be a bit trickier to do in our class environment though. Overall the class gave me some good ideas.

There are times I feel like my students are falling asleep in class, or their eyes have glazed over as I am speaking. I'm not always sure if they actually understood the content or they just don't care. Being an overly dramatic person, I usually start doing something crazy at this point to break their silence. Which could possibly be screaming like a 5-year-old for a lollipop, if that is the example I am using to relay a point I am teaching at the moment. When I stop to ask, "Does that make sense? Does anyone have questions? You guys… >>>

When I first saw some of the topics and brief introduction, I was nervous that I don't ask the right questions and sure that I would learn all sorts of new ways to interact with my students.  What I learned was that I already use the types of questions discussed in the chapters, but I was unaware of the specific name is pertains to the topic.

For my students now, I am going to utilize more interpretative and translative-type questions so that I can ensure the understand the topic.

Stephanie Zoltowski, M.A. 

After taking this course it made me remember teachers that made a impact on my life. I never realized how short our attention span is and I will make sure I have interaction with my students to keep them focused. I believe that the pretest not only reminds students to study it also helps them find the areas that they may need to review.

I have always felt more comfortable in the lab setting than classroom setting, by creating a more detailed lesson plan I should be able to overcome my discomfort with a classroom setting.

I plan to apply the knowledge I have gained from this course to improve ECPI University's retenton goals.

I learned that is very benifical to student to be prepared and ready to teaach on the first day of class. First impression is everything.

This course has helped me identify areas where I can incorporate more learning styles. 

I am going to read the course materials again over the next several weeks and evaluate whether or not the concepts put forward in the class have merit in the context of my class.  After that process is complete, I will decide how to proceed to implement a plan to add the any appropriate concepts learned in the class into my class in a timely fashion, modifying and adjusting as necessary.

We as instructors need to take time to see the problems that each student faces and take the needed steps to help that student.

Gave me a better understanding of the underlying causes for the things I witness from students in the classroom and why certain approaches work or don't work well.

I will think critically about how to apply what I learned in this course towards future teaching opportunities. Excellent course: lots of new informations.

I have found that I can lecture alot more than I should and I plan to do more hands-on activites that will break up the sessions into 15-18 minutes of lecture and then create periods when the students can interact more with each other and still retain the information.

I found it encouraging that instructors should not only use real world experiences (stories) in instruction, but also remind students that employers will expect deadlines to be met and teamwork to be successful in order to keep a job.

Example from ED107 Course: "Every good instructor has a bag of tricks that travels with them everywhere they go."

Itis always a goog idea to go back and look at your teaching style, there is always room for improvement.

I think this ED106 was a good course. It focused on how to keep different student interest. I think what appealed to me the most is helping the student with learning disabilities. I myself was diagnostics with a learning disability in middle school. What I find interesting is these students tend to be average to above average students. I think as teachers we have to try and reach all students and in doing that we may need to change up are teaching style.