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Andres Sanchez
Andres Sanchez

Assessment Test

Before a new class I always have a pre and post assessment test. This serves two functions: 1) It gives me a base line of knowledge for the class. 2) By showing students the pre and post they can see thier own progress, This helps to motivate a student.
Andres Sanchez
Andres Sanchez

Detailed Lesson Plan

This is incredibly important. Due to outside work form the institution, some instructors (including myself) can't teach the same class every time, so we have a very detailed lesson plan that includes resources, day by day layouts and also we include a FAQ for adjunct instructors and let them know where students tend to struggle. This way we can have a consistent level of instruction regardless of who the instructor is.
Andres Sanchez
Andres Sanchez

Value Resources

One way to get my students to read periodicals on a recurring basis is to pick an article every two weeks thats relevant to the subject thats been taught. I take 30 mins to discuss the article with the class. This way students become accustomed at looking thru new material on a regular basis. Does anybody do something like this? I would like to change the format a bit. PS: Im not the only one that selects the article, I have students selct articles as well.
Taneshia Walker
Taneshia Walker

Sharing with the students..

I always share my story with my students. It allows them to see that I am human just as they are human. I am going through many of the same situations as my students, so I not only hear their stories, but I fully understand their stories.
Sabrina Robinson
Sabrina Robinson

Lesson Plans

Enjoyed the module. Lesson plans are very critical pertaining to the success of the instructor overall delivery of the material. Without these plans, the instructor could very well be out of boundaries with the material. Indeed, lesson plans should be designed to be direct and basically a guideline to the overall agenda of the day. Students feel reassured when they have structure and when they are confident to see the instructor consistently prepared.
Pattara Kuramarohit
Pattara Kuramarohit CHEP

Guest Speakers

As a culinary instructor, I think bringing a guest speaker, such as, a Restaurant Chef, General Manager, Banquet Chef and etc, can enhance the learning experience for the students. The students will get a clear picture as to what the culinary industry is about and why it is necessary to learn the fundamental basics before entering the industry. It also keeps the students engaged and enthusiatic.
Pattara Kuramarohit
Pattara Kuramarohit CHEP

Pretesting

On day 1 of the class, I hand out a short pretest and ask the students to comment briefly on what they expect from this class. This gives me a picture of how much the students know and also what they intend to learn. Its very useful and helpful for me.
Pattara Kuramarohit
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
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
Natalie Vanoli

Professionalism points

Can you explain the use of professional points more?
Choppy Iversen Jr.
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
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
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
sarai Dieguez

Importance of being prepared

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

Organized and prepared to teach

When we spent more time organizing introducing the course becomes easier.
David Minnich
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
Bruce Kupferschmidt

extra learning opportunities

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