Back-up plans are a must! I did not run into an issue with this area of education until my second year of teaching. Past experiences typically left me with too little time, NEVER too much time. Fortunately, I was able to recover, but that was the first and ONLY time I will walk into a classroom without a back-up plan!

In my past classrooms, I have used very few Powerpoint presentations because I traditionally use discussion, group work, and individual activities in order to conduct my curriculum. However, I am planning on becoming more familiar with the software in order to use them more often in class. As of now, I require each student in a business class that I teach to give a PowerPoint presentation and follow-up those presentations with question and answer sessions. This method has seemd to work well in my classroom.

I think, if possible, a combination between a guest speaker and field trip can be quite effective. First, introduce a speaker from a particular business into the classroom and then to further reiterate and reinforce your objectives, take the class to the place of business your speaker was from. Then they can both hear and see the workings of a particular business.

Other than on the last day of the course(s) you teach, how many times do you share the cumulative scores with your students to let them know their status? Why is this of benefit to you and/or your students?

As instructors in our particular field we can have students in our classes that are at two ends of the ability spectrum. Some have very little exposure and very little perceived aptitude. Others may already be working in our field and have very high exposure and perceived aptitude. Considering both of these types of students, how do you adapt your methods to achieve the most successful outcome for both?

What 2 instructional delivery methods are you most successful with, enjoy the most and why? What 2 instructional delivery methods are you least successful with, enjoy the least and why?

After reflecting on the section titled "Observing your Educational Settings", how do you prepare to conduct your educational orchestra? Specifically what do you do to make the physical settings accommodating, prepare yourself as the educational leader and select the best materials and delivery methods?

When a students is absent for an exam,it's a good idea to give them a different axam than the original,to keep them honest.....

The most important aspect of lecture is to keep the students interest,and have them actively involved......

This form of lecture is effective providing,the Instructor is very enthusiastic,and provides real world situations ....

I find is that most Instructors that I work with have most if not all of the Traits mentioned in "All Shapes and Sizes" which brings about a well rounded Instructor, but what I see with each new class I recieve is that we need to focus more on the connection betwen you, your students, and the field instead of just class content and move the students beyond there grade to this is "My Career" so the student can and will be better adjusted in their knowledge and skills for there new careers.

If you look hurried,and disorganized entering a classroom,it does'nt give the students a good first impression of yourself.

Every class does move at a different pace, therefore, instructors must have additional material available.

Guest speskers are a great benefit if the subject matter is interesting and the length of the presentation is agreed on by the instructor.

I have found that testing the students is not only necessary to understand what they have learned but during my early days I noticed that if I missed or didn't cover a segment properly, the majority of the class would miss answer that particular question. Now when I teach a new class subject I pay close attention to any answers that are missed by the students. This lets me know I need to reevaluate my presentation.

I have been trying to brak up the instruction into small sections making sure to provide practice time for the students, thus reinforceing the verbal, and demonstration instruction. How ever my time is very limited so this becomes interesting at times!I have a bit of a delema, to much instruction and not enough time! Can anyone tell me how to slow down time?

Testing; there has to be a base line of evaluation. Without evaluation we may not determine if the student has the understanding of the material needed to move forth. Although some times the testing might need to be more of hands on test verse a written test because of learning styles. Learning style and testing style do carry hand in hand.

By pretesting, the student and instructor can find a base line of knowledge and a starting point for learning. This will also tell the strengths and weaknesses for improvement.

When selecting media for class, one must remember that the learning style of each student differs. i.e. When using power points, make sure that the student can inter act with the presentation presented. By doing this the student will not loose interest on the subject at hand that is being taught.

When preparing for a class one must not only have hand outs or training aids ready but also be ready for different learning styles. Relating to the students helps keeps the student interest by creating a bond of common ground to build trust for the student.