Instructional Delivery & Assessment

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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.

John Finocchiaro

Socratic

I have used questioning before but actually using them in this method is awsome. I used in a class today and the engagement was amasing.

Joseph Balatbat

Classroom as a Stage. We are the Main Actor

I have always reiterated to my faculty staff that when we enter a classroom, we act, we direct, we supervise and we produce the course of the event. Principally, we are the main actor. It is up to us to convince, and attract the students' attention. Acting is not merely gestures. It behoves the tone of our voice, the body movements, the intonation and the manner we interact with ther students. This is how we motivate and deliver course content.

Dan Sassaman

Discipline versus motivation

Why do instructors feel the need to discipline a student at the drop of a hat? It seems instructors are eager to punish but late to coach and mentor. Too many instructors do not know how to treat students and take everything they do wrong as a personal attack on the instructor. I have found it is best to be friendly, but not their friend, talk not shout, discuss in private not in public.If this does not produce the results you are looking for, maybe it is time to look inward and find out more about yourself.

Herbert Freeze

Lesson planning must be flexible

You have a great lesson plan for your new class. On the first day of class you get feedback that indicates your original plan may not be best suited for this class. So to now make the class a good learning experience your plan must be changed. No one wants to sit through a class and feel left out.

Ulises Valderrama CHEP

Setting your self up for success

In the beginning extra time and effort is needed to make sure all goes well on the first day. If all goes well on the first day, it sets you up for success. I know from experience that it is much more work to recover from a bad first day of class. Do your self a favor and take the time to make sure you are prepared the first day. Someone once told me that there is no substitution for preparation. I think they were right.

Victor Smolensky

Working With the Syllabi

More often than not, I am given a syllabus with which to conduct my course. The curriculum developers usually develop the syllabi as well. I always take this to be a guideline, rather than a rule. The best syllabi are developed by those who need to use it in the class room. That means teachers.

Joseph Balatbat

First Day Checklist

Every start of a new module or a term (usually every 5 weeks), our faculty has a "Script" and "first day check off list". We go through the academic policies as well review the course syllabus. Although redundant, we feel that this is necessary with the kind of population and the level of our students in our institution.

Elizabeth Sneed

Motivation

To motivate students I build their self esteem. You make them proud of what they are accomplishing and the decision to improve their lives.

William Chapman

Tarty Students

I am making an attempt to motivate students to arrive early and prepared.

William Chapman

Online Learning

I think we as professors, teachers, facilitators, and coaches should learn more about online teaching and distance learning.

Morgan Nims

First Day

I ask each student what their Goal is in their new Culinary life! Then I tell them to write it down and use it daily to remind them of the end result during a rough time.

Oliver Beckham CHEP

rolling with the punches

I find that most student will give there best if the instructor involves the class in the lesson plan. The instructors should learn to be flexiable with the lesson plan some times the old pour and snore method just doesnt work. make the lecture fun by having the student move with lesson. Occasionally it leave the instuctor open to failure but if you roll with the punches you can over come the set back and learn a new way of getting the student involved.

Lawrence Liptak CHEP

First Day of Class

After I introduce myself to the class, I ask the students what do they think this class is all about,Why is it important for them to take this class and How will this class help them in their chosen field or career.

Roderick Hopkins

How to treat other people

Treating other people the way you would like to be treated sets a standard for students to aspire to. If students can see this modeled for them by instructors will they follow that example or not ? I think so by saying exactly what you mean and by always meaning what you say!

Steve Nelson CHEP

Learning styles and class preparation

What are some of the different ways you prepare your course content to address the different learning styles?

Robert DiLenge

Motivation

In our courses the students seem to be more motivated when we are doing hands on work. A majority of our students are just out of high school and are tired of book learning

Robert DiLenge

Students that know it all

We seem to get alot of students that gp out of their way to prove an instructor wrong. When a student gives me a question that I feel is being used to "stump" me I will usually turn the question over to the students in order to start a dialouge in class. Many times more than one student will have the correct answer. I do this not to embarass the student, but to show him that that I am not the only source of information in the class. I also explain (especially if it is off-subject) that i would gladly discuss the question after class with him.

Kerry Dunn