As an instructor do you feel it is important to bring outside additonal learning tools (related to course material) to best help your students study and learn the material given?

Students really look up to their instructor reagardless the age of the student returning to school. They can really view you as a their role model.

Interetsting discussion on various types of learning methods. Sorry to again disagree with the content/quiz answers, but the four learning methods are traditionally described under the acronym VARK (Visual, Auditory, Reading, Knietic). Also, one of the quiz anwers was impossible to get correct. The material specifically states that the attention span of adults is 10-12 minutes, but that answer option was not given.

To prepare students for the experiences of restaurant work, we set up an activity we call speed drills. In this drill, a mock restaurant line is created and the students rotate thru the different stations(pantry, grill etc). They need to understand what products will be produced in each stations and therefore what items need to be prepped-not only the food but also smallwares and platewares. Timing is a critical component in these drills because food from all stations need to be ready at the same time. With these drills, the students get to experience the pace and demands they will face with in the food service industry.

Knowing that the role of a great accelerator facilitator is trainer, facilitator, and learner,and this is done by the instructor coming in as the teacher bringing in experience and objectives then becoming the facilitator by releasing control to the learners letting them learn in the best way for them but keeping the teacher role close by so things don't get out of hand then letting the learner come in and with an open mine learn something new that maybe one of the learner bring out in discussion.

I found the iImportance of learning styles interesting. It caused me to realize that now I can hopefully reach all of my students, and in turn improve my ability to be a more effective teacher.

I need the various standard ways to know how to handle this situation.

I have spent much of my professional life working with people with disabilities. They may require some adaptations or more time to complete tasks, but they enrich your life and classroom.

Yes, I have found myself too static at times. Once I began to move around more I saw a marked improvement in the students attention.

if grades are delayed then the students are not present in mind to absorbe the new teaching material ... I find getting the material back before the 2nd break to be ideal... the students know unless an earthquake happens they will have feed back to be discussed in private after class..

i like to us a tech. of rapid fire questions going backwards i.e. "what is water?" answer a combination of two atoms hydrogen and oxygen and then follow up with "and then what is oxygen etc etc... my students like the backwards traceing effect.

information tech. makes supporting the visual learner a much eaiser job. you can use power point, to we mechines. to candy and tooth picks pick your poison.

very important to capture your students attention.

I've found that I can engage students best when teaching extremely technical by always beginning those lessons with an explaination of how the technical information will be useful to them in their future career. What are some other techniques we as teachers can use to engage students when teaching highly technical topics?

Course content must be delivered in a manner that promotes learning

It is important for the instructor to introduce herself to the students.

Presenting yourself in a professional manner encourages respect from the students toward the instructor and toward the subject.

Presenting in a professional manner encourages respect from students toward you and the subject you are teaching.

I think that students with disabilities deserve a change to prove that he or she can strive and success at whatever goal that have set in mind. Just because they may have a disability does not mean treat them any different than you would a normal student who is honor student or something. Equally for all must still be recongnized even when their is a disability present. Help them overcome the challenges they will face in todays society. We are are human at the end of the day and should be treated the same and respected .

Essay Questions Essay items, like short-answer, are constructed-response questions. However, essay answers are typically much longer than those of short-answer, ranging from a few paragraphs to several pages. Advantages: Essay questions are the only question type that can effectively assess all six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. They allow students to express their thoughts and opinions in writing, granting a clearer picture of the level of student understanding. Finally, as open-ended questions, they assess recall over recognition. Disadvantages: There are two main disadvantages to essay questions: time requirements and grading consistency. Essays are time-consuming for students to complete, and require careful instructions on the part of the test writer. Scoring can be difficult because of the variety of answers, as well as the “halo effect” (students rewarded for strong writing skills as opposed to demonstrated mastery of the content). Most appropriate for: Assessment that cannot be accomplished with other question types. Because essays are the only question types that can effectively assess the highest levels of student mastery, they are the only option if the goal of testing is the assessment of synthesis and evaluation levels. Bloom’s Levels: Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation