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Intelligence Based Knowledge

A pretest will give you a better Idea of where your students stand.

How Do I follow the guideliness

Sometimes it is very difficult to always follow the guidelines is you have students who are slow learners.

How To Handle Behavior Problems

I have trouble handling students with behavior problems, can you help me.

How Should an Instructor Approach a Situation With Slower Students

You don't want the rest of your class to fall behind because you have a couple of slower students, how should you handle this types of students?

Pre Assessment

I think that a pre test will give an instructor a clear view of what students know and do not know.

Integrating Technology

I use power point for all lectures, I also direct my students to some of the different web site available if they are relevent to the lesson

Understanding Learning Objectives

Our objectives are layed out in the student workbook, I cover what we will be learning and why at the start of each day. Hopefully the student has read over that lesson plan the night before So they already have an idea of what is going to be taught that day.

Documenting Your Lesson Plans

Writing our lesson plan I took into concideration that someone with less experiance than myself will have to teach this course as well. Putting in a step by step "how to" for the student anso helps with a covering or "sub" for the day

Identifying Student Knowledge

I teach a couple different classes the first course I am in is an interductery course. Using real life exaples keep the student interested on how this is relevent to his future in the field. The other course is at the end of the program, using a pre test lets me know how much they have retained

Clicker Tests

Something that I found really helpful was the use of clicker tests. At the end of my lecture, pending time of course, I would do a review test of the chapters I just lectured on. The students would be able to answer the questions without fear of missing one and being docked points. It was a great way to involve class participation as well as review and Q&A time.

Preparation

Preparing lessons plans is so beneficial to any instructor, and being very knowledgeable of the subject that is being presented gives the instructor a greater learning outcome.

Previous Experience

Many of my students have had some level of training in the college setting, which can turn out to be a positive or a negative. Due to years of applying knowledge a certain way, it hinders them from being able to apply new technology. As an instructor this is where my challenges come from, assessments really help to break down many of these barriers.

Objectives

Objectives are very important , I always make a point to my students to know your objectives for each class because when you complete that class you should have a understanding of the objectives .

Lesson plan

Depending on the field and the course that is being taught , lesson plans can be very challenging for a new instructor.

advantages to resources and time mngt.

In this course I am learning advantages of bringing resources to the class, gaining insight into student's knowledge and time management.

Field Trips

I teach Audio Technology. I find that getting the students out of the class room and into a real studio is invaluable. Classroom time is always important, but physically taking a trip really stimulates interests in my students.

Tech

I mix lecture, with videos and good old common sense, demos with tastings and face to face evaluations, its from the heart and I let them see it and its very intimate. Just us and it works!

Taxomony

we use big words to a generation that is tech driven and they don't really know what we are talking about unless they look it up via the I phone- is that learning?? or remembering to forget to get a grade..

student input

They all have a voice, some guided, some misguided and some think they run the class. Giving away the power and letting them think they have it, is something else. Pulling them back to the center is real learning, for all of us..

students

I always start the first day with a bio questionaire as a starting point for me, for them