Instructional Planning & Design

Public

Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.

Shirley Laidley

PP Presentations

PP Presentations are to help an Instructor present the material. The PPPresentation is not the main teaching format.

Shirley Laidley

Quest speakers

Quest speakers are an added bonus to the class. The students can hear real life stories about their career opportunities

Alicia Wheeler

Short topics

In my accounting class students like to learn one thing and then get it down so that we can build on it in the future.

Alicia Wheeler

Power Point

My students really appreciate the Power Point presentations! They seem to get a better understanding of the chapter that way.

Alicia Wheeler

Field Trips

I think that field trips are an excellent way to get students involved. It lets them see the "real world" and how things are outside of the classroom.

R Lee Viar IV

Extra Credit

Personally, I have always utilized extra credit as both a reward for students doing well and for those that are legitimately trying, but still falling short. The motivation this provides those students is excellent and typically the students take full advantage of the opportunity.

R Lee Viar IV

Pretesting Learners

I am in favor of pretesting learners for one primary purpose. I have heard too many times that learners get frustrated because they are not ready for a particular course and subsequently, the learners merely figure that the college is attempting to get more money out of them. What are your thoughts on this?

R Lee Viar IV

PowerPoint Pitfalls

I attended a training conference with an excellent PowerPoint Presentation. However, the problem is that presentation lasted over 90 minutes and consisted of over 50 slides. It was more like a motion picture than a PPT presentation. All of the attendees were totally overwhelmed by the end, including myself.

R Lee Viar IV

Guest Speaker Pitfalls

I have had some wonderful experiences with guest speakers over the years. However, I had one experience where the guest speaker decided to totally deviate from the topic and actually created extra work for me later by trying to explain some of the issues and topics he brought up that really was not in line with what the textbook and ethical principles went by. I still use guest speakers, but I am always a little nervous.

Margie Coleman

Best of the bunch!

What has been your most successful delivery method in instruction and why?

Margie Coleman

Class Preparation

How much time do you all average to prepare for a two and four hour block class.

Patricia Warholic

using field trips as a way to introduce career

by having students go on a field trip to experience what the course is about with help greatly in knowledge and understanding of topics

Hayley Cluever

alternative exams

This method works quite well in one of my courses where there is a frequent need for outside of class testing.

Hayley Cluever

pretesting students

I really like the idea of pre-testing the students' knowledge bases. This had not occurred to me before and in hindsight it would've been quite helpful when my students did become lost.

Hayley Cluever

powerpoints

I completed a Microsoft Office course offered by our school last quarter. I gained a great deal of powerpoint skill from it. Of course I'll be a work in progress, but I would recommend add'l powerpoint-specific training to anyone as you can get alot out of it.

Hayley Cluever