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Pattara Kuramarohit CHEP

Lesson plan

Lesson plans are important because its a guideline for the students and instructor for the entire course. The procedure section is most used in the lesson plan and its important to make it detailed yet allow some flexiblity to the lesson.

Pattara Kuramarohit CHEP

Getting to know your students

I found that sharing my experiences as an ice breaker helps student to open up and share about there experiences and interest. This gives me a way to connect with the students and understand where they are coming from better.

Natalie Vanoli

Professionalism points

Can you explain the use of professional points more?

Choppy Iversen Jr. CHEP

timing your presentation

I found that the only way to get your timing down is by doing the presentation over and over again, fine tuning it so to speak.

Michael Harbach

Coping with various student skill levels

Hi, wondering how other instructors deal with various skill levels when students are enrolled in a class. For example, I'm teaching an MSWord 2010 course with several students who have already had experience. Granted, I have plenty of things to show them that they don't know, but they tend to get bored going through the first few chapters. Any tips on what to do with them?

sarai Dieguez

Informing students of status in course

Placement test before the beginning of the class will help the instructor prepare the course materials and exam.

sarai Dieguez

Importance of being prepared

It is important to have a plan B in case something goes wrong with the class.

sarai Dieguez

Selecting instructional media

It is important to select the correct media for the right course. I will try to indruduce media in my future courses.

sarai Dieguez

Organized and prepared to teach

When we spent more time organizing introducing the course becomes easier.

David Minnich

Extra credit

The issue of extra credit has come up for me a couple of times. In both cases, I had a student who was failing my course come to me near the end of the term and ask for extra credit so she could pass. In both cases I said no to this request due to her poor grade being a result of not coming to class and not doing any of her assignments. Does everyone think I made the right decision in those cases?

Bruce Kupferschmidt

extra learning opportunities

Finding ways to expand the depth of projects tends to keep faster students engaged.

raymond spillers CHEP

ED109, lesson plans

I feel that lesson planning (as in my situation) that constitute 6 or more hours of lecture, planning and schedueling are important. However, I also think that appropriate breaks out of the classroom IE: 30 min or even more every 2-hours to apply practical hands on exercises having to do with or in conjunction with the lecture material are even more appropriate than the lecture material. all day in the classroom is too much.

raymond spillers CHEP

desired learning outcome

I have been using what we term as a "desired learning outcome" IE: what is expected to be learned from a particuler segment of the lesson plan? then we discuss the end result in order to gather input from the students actively involved in the course curriculem.

samone wright