Instructional Planning & Design

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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.

Roseanne Dwyer

video resources

There are so many possibilities of displaying video applications to the field of Anatomy & Physiology which is what I teach. It is almost impossible to teach what goes on metabolically through pictures, diagrams and text alone. Videos help convey these processies to students and are professionally produced. My students and I are very grateful to those who prvide this opportunity. Both Art and Technology merge.

Roseanne Dwyer

Time Management

As a way to keep you on time, be flexible and ready to spend some time on the subject at the next meeting. Make sure there are worksheets to help the students self evaluate if you have extra time. Be prepared to show a video or animation that goes along with the class if you find that you have extra time.

Mildred Olivas

keeping students inform

It is critical to have students up to date on their progress. Returning graded exams within a day is highly appreciated by students and also a best practice.

Mildred Olivas

Using pre-test

In adult education, it is critical that students are given some type of pre- assessment. Adult students come with background education and knowledge and instructors should acknowledge it as much possible in order to keep them engage.

Mildred Olivas

media

Although it can be very time consuming, using media in the classroom is very effective.

Mildred Olivas

guest

Having guest come into the classroom is very exciting to students. Consider bringing someone who can teach a particular content better than you can, it makes a great difference

Michael Fisk

Compromise

One of the more challenging concepts in the classroom for me is tailoring information that makes it easier for the students to grasp but does not compromise the integrity of the career field. When moving across different courses and concepts this can be difficult, especially when looking for a new way to provide the information and keep it relevant.

Michael Fisk

White Board Connections

I found the discussion about utilizing the white board applicable to my current class design. Although I do use the board to highlight points or to rely upcoming assignments, I have not used the board to add information provided by students to connect with subject areas that are being presented. I really like the idea of this application and plan on using during my class.

Michael Fisk

Taking Notes

The information provided so far in this section has been useful, especially the breakdown of instructor types. The suggestion and I liked the most and plan on using was writing down personal classroom experience after each class. I believe this method will create a better learning environment for my students by allowing me to revisit past lesson plans and adapt them to the current student body or just make a lecture flow better

Brittany Jackson

Being prepared but planning for demo's

I haven't seen any discussion on demonstration planning as a means to get the student to get excited, and to learn pipeline. Is this because of the perception that a Demo is typically done real-time and may create a perception of disorganization?? Personally I teach a few classes where step by step, tutorial, or demo is crucial to picking up real-world pipelines. What are the thoughts on this?

Laird MacCubbin

Lesson plans

I'm not the best at this but keep trying to not have too much that my classes doesn't go over time.

Laird MacCubbin

Support materials

Its challenging to always use enough support materials. I try but have hopes of using professionals more to give the students more real world feedback.

Anthony Agolia

Survey Monkey

This is a pretty cool website that you can use with your students in class to gauge their opinion on a particular topic in real time.

Adina Falub

retaking test

never give the same test out due to other students sharing info.

Adina Falub

reingaging students

students get tired and bored having a sencond back up plan can hep engage them in the material

Adina Falub

powerpoint slides

i would have to disagree on only 5 slides. adding effect always can help draw students in

Adina Falub

field trips

i throughly enjoyed field trips as a kid growing up. it helped widen my understanding of the big world out there.

Claire Bates

Multiple kinds of knowledge

I teach general education and I have lots of different types of students in my classes with varying degrees of ability. I find it difficult to tailor my classes to be able to suit all these different students at once.

Marlene Goco CHEP

using standards and compentencies as planning guides

As instructor it is very important to used standards and compentencies as planning guides to support the students in skills,build confidence and knowledge.

peter curcio

tools of the trade

In teaching criminal justice courses 'I often bring in drug test kits, handcuffs etc to show the class. Does anyone esle do this?

Related Learning Opportunities

EC111 - Learning Through Student Based Enterprises

ED105 - Instructional Planning for Student Success

ED109 - Preparing and Creating Lesson Plans

ED123 - Adaptive Learning in Education

ED128 - Practical Applications for Adaptive Learning

ED133 - Universal Design for Learning

ED134 - Literacy is Not an Option

ED146 - How Storytelling Benefits Learning

ED405 - Essential Teaching Strategies

ED407 - Writing Performance Objectives