This was an exceptionally well paced course. I felt it was mostly review for myself, but overall very helpful.

This was very helpful, I started using music during my classes and rearranging the sits.  It seems to motivate or at least get their attention.

From this course, I was able to see how asking certain types of questions can hinder or enhance the class room.  I am going to put into practice asking more of the types of questions that would allow the students to expand what they know .

Understanding that every student learns in a diferent way, will make me a bettr instructor

In order to become a better L.P.N. instructor  I have the following goals for my preformance plan for the 2015 MCI school year. I will make it a habbit to show up to class 15 minutes early. I will make it my practive to introduce my self each mod as I have been doing and I will have my students introduce themselves to me. I will research M.S.N programs and will start on my M.S.N before October.

As a former middle school teacher, I have used active learning strategies extensively in the past and have modified many of them for use in my current position teaching adult learners.  I have sometimes wondered if some of the activities and strantegies might be too juvenile for the adults I teach, but in genreal I have discovered that my students enjoy, appreciate, and learn from an active learning format.  Thank you for the many suggestions!

Active learning has been an interest since I began teaching.  I am considering using the methods in my class by having the patients take a "patient" and describe the methods by which they would ventilate and mangae their care.  By doing this they would need to use the covered material and also the practical skill they have learned

We have a new term starting next week.  I am already an early arriver, seating chart creator, and Syllabus explainer, but I am looking forward to implementing the following checklists and methods to my next classes:

• First Day Checklist
• Icebreaker
• Personalized Introductions
• Mini Lectures
• More Integrated lessons using more Problem-solving and Case Study type interaction
• Being more timely in managing troubled students
• Being more timely in giving student feedback on assignments
• Pre execute more lab assignments to find the pitfalls in advance

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There is a lot taken from this training, I will definitely applly this in my classroom, the way to prepare for my class, and how to deal with my students in a more professional way, and this training opened my eyes to a lot of small details I wasn't paying attention to, I blieve conducting this training will add a lot to my expertise.

This module has really made sense of how I tend to explain things and how I can ascertain the comprehension level of each student. It's like a road map of how to properly lay out a lesson plan.

Writing proper questions and assessing knowledge learned as opposed to what hasnt been learned

I  have found many items listed in this first class to be helpful in my everyday teching. I did not know the attention of a student to only be around 15-18 minutes. and to keep learing sessions to shorter lengths of time.

i will take that with me, and also practice your hands on demonstrations before class is a must. that way if you run in to issues before the actual demonstration you will be better prepared and you will look more professional.

Unless you have a formal education in the field of education, many career college instructors struggle with the basics of teaching. We learn from doing, and we learn from others who have done, and sometimes we get it right. Other times we get it very wrong, and this becomes painfully obvious as we tap-dance in front of our students, covered in bomb-sweat, desparately hoping for the bell to ring to save us.

Two things ED101 provides: ideas and validation. If you have a lesson or even an entire class to develop, Effective Teaching Strategies will provide you with the tools… >>>

I have learned to walk around the room and look at it from the students perspective and to chit chat with them before class to get a general idea of their mood.

I plan to utilize You-tube videos that cover the course subject matter and meet course objectives,as well as powerpoint slides to provide students with instructional material outside the classroom.  This will be followed by F2F discussion and implementation of the knowledge gained.

I thought this course gave a good overview of different strategies involved in active learning, including the benefits, the risks, and potential barriers. I frequently use pausing and asking questions that encourage critical thinking, as well as small group discussions in my classes. I think the strategy I first plan to try after taking this course is the "guided lecture" where students are encouraged to just listen for 15-20 min and then take notes during discussion and review of the content just covered. I would like to provide an outline of what I have picked out as important or key… >>>

I use various methodologies to assist students with learning content. One tool is a student survival guide which helps students organize the way they study/learn content. The pyramid defines how to focus on chapter content star,ting with answering the  learning objectives at the front of the chapter. it includes defining vocabulary, checking and appreciating cues/alerts and boxed data throughout the chapter. The last part is using their Saunders review book to get the biggest bang for their buck.

Differentiating assignments according to students' learning needs provides learning disabled students the opportunity to achieve success.  Modifications such as:  word banks, graphic organizers, mulitple choices, extra time, shortened assignements, and the availability to take breaks, commonly assist students with learning needs.  I regularly modify assignments in the Inclusive Classroom using these methods to provide them with the opportunity to achieve greater learning and higher percentages on assignments.

Just took ED103. Of course it tells me that using True/False questions are only good if they is a clear and defined answer. If this is true why are the only 2 questions I got wrong True/False? Am I looking too deeply into the wording? Does the test creator know the answer so well that he/she feels it is clearly defined? Or did I miss the meaning in this. I listen well and I am very hands on. Is it my reading skills that need to be nurtured. Any way you look at it, I feel the test was well… >>>

That was fun!