In the culinary profession it is very important that instructors have years of experience in their field of expertise. How valuable are instructors with little to know industry experience? What do they offer to their students if they can't share real world experience? How do non experienced instructors teach the reality of the industry if they haven't done it themselves?

Formal assessment assess students work based on performance and usually issues a grade. Sharon

Basic Knowledge is factual knowledge leading into conceptional and procedural knowledge

I have found it helpful to have all of my instructors make lesson plans. This has given them a guideline to follow and has helped the classes flow more smoothly. Sharon

If you use a paper grade book or have to calculate the grading on some assignments before entering them in the grade book, I recommend using Microsoft Excel. With basic knowledge and an understanding of calculating sums, totals, and percentages; I believe you will find Excel to be a real time saver. In most cases, you just need to enter the grades and Excel does all the calculating for you. Even though I use an electronic grade book, I still use Excel to compile data from other electronic scoring systems, in which I have to calculate a grade that I would manually enter into my grade book. Keep in mind that a lot of online testing and lab applications allow you to port the results into programs like Excel via a .CSV file.

An important part of releating to students involves learning their names. What other areas in the classroom can we relate to our students?

One of the biggest assets an instructor can have is flexibility. At least once a week a form of technology that I want to use in the classroom is unavailable, broken or for whatever reason I'm not able to access it. I always have to be sure to have a back up plan to the technology that I want to integrate into my classroom.

Because I teach general education courses it is very important for me to ensure the students understand what they will be taking away from my course, and why it's important for them to learn the material provided. Many don't see the value of general education courses so it's my job to show them.

Because I provide a lot information in my lesson plans, I've found that highlighting the main points make it easier for me to quickly remember what I'm transitioning to in the classroom.

Because my classes are four hours long, it's very important for me to plan a lot of extra material for each session. I never know how discussion will go each day so I have to make sure I have enough in my lesson plan to fill the four hours. I generally structure my classes so that the first half of the class is lecture, and the second is filled with activities that apply the material covered in the lecture. This way students can actively participate in their own learning.

I enjoyed reading the list of different instructor types, i.e. peacemaker, drill sergeant, etc. However, I feel it is important to emphasize that we can fall into at least a couple of these types from one degree to another. For example, I see myself as a peacemaker, but I can be a drill sergeant as well. The course mentions taking a personality assessment, in which I am in total agreement. However, most of these tests will not try to pigeon hole you into one distinct personality type. Rather, they will indicate your tendencies and to what degree you have towards a particular personality type.

It is always helpful to have the lesson plans to help guide your class, but sometimes you do move too quickly through a subject you expected to take the whole class. Most of the time the students do not know the basics, so it always good to review basics and terminology if you have extra time.

The Instructor Resource Material from the course I teach came with Jeopardy games. After the PowerPoint presentation we do the Jeopardy games. It is fun and forces everyone in the class, even the quite one, to participate.

Has anyone had to deal with "emergency lesson plans"? I was told by a supervisor that they are standard.

I do think that sometimes diagramming a procedure helps in understanding the flow of the testing process.

Sometime this task is difficult as one class will understand the material and another class will need extra instruction to understand presented material. This sort of throws off the flow of instruction/labs/testing from one class to the next.

As a relatively new instructor I find it helpful to choose a few different ways to present the same material so as to have the students be exposed to the most important material on more occasions than just during lecture and testing.

Is that OK for giving extra credit to all the assessment include quiz?

where do I find a good template to use for lesson plans.

Speak volumes about student comprehension, instructor teaching style and necessary changes for success.