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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.

Michael Fisk

Timing

I liked the suggestion to allow more time when deal with some learning disabilities. That one simple idea can work with a variety of learning issues, including ones brought about due to a medical condition.

Michael Fisk

Barriers

Language barriers can be an unforeseen force that slows down class time and can be difficult to cope with in a career college environment. Many times while trying to deliver career course content the ability to teach above and beyond can be limiting. Some of the ideas presented here can certainly help, especially limiting the number of vocabulary words per class.

Michael Fisk

Groups

It is challenging when working with student groups. This usually presents itself when one member of the group is perceived as doing less work than the others. This can also show up in a smaller group when one member decides to avoid class or even a presentation but still wants the total points allotted for the project.

Michael Fisk

Movement

I generally like the idea of moving around the room to keep the students attention refocused. It does also help with keeping students off of cell phones and other such items.

Lyndsie Pickren

Keeping it interesting!

I'm just starting out in the teaching field and I'm concerned about keeping the students' attention. They're going to be small groups and long class hours (3-4 hours) and keeping the positivity high and the conversation flowing is a big concern for me. Can anyone name some ideas that I could utilize?

Paula Jamison

Learning styles

By using as many learning styles as possible, there will be more students that can succeed.

Paula Jamison

Being prepared

It is important to have a well planned firs day in the classroom. Without a well planned outline and being over prepared the class could lose interest.

Ellya Edwards

questions

questions that facilitate my discussion

Ellya Edwards

examples

would like to see others examples to get an idea

Kiofa Clark

Reading deficiences

I am having a problem with a group of students that entered into the program as friends. They, however have different learning levels. It was discovered that one has a weakness in reading/vocabulary around midterm, but I have not been able to keep her separated from her friend who does well (with little effort). As for their other friend she is somewhere in between. I may have to use the seating chart approach next time. As for this individual she may not successfully complete my course.

Ty Robins

Teaching with different styles of learning

What are some ways to interact with different learning styles?

Ty Robins

First Class

First impressions of the instructor are so important for class. What are some ways you've found to start class off on the right foot.

Ty Robins

Planning

Planning is crucial to class organization. What are some ways other instructors have found to help organize their planning?

Ty Robins

Excitement is contagious!

Projecting confident excitement in the course topics has a way of transferring from the instructor's face to the students faces. That leadership goes a long way in letting the students feel like they are allowed to be excited and participate in class discussion. What are some ways other instructors have found to project excitement?

Everett Young

Teaching on Day 1

Our class schedule is once/week for 3 hours. Based on the syllabus, I have a chapter of information to cover on the first day in order to keep the rest of the class days on track. Is this a good idea, or would the students appreciate a "teaching-free" first day to get oriented with each other, the class room, the syllabus, etc...?

Kiofa Clark

Formal vs. Informal groups

I had never really paid attention to the fact that there are two types of groups. I have always thought that group work was group work. I have also realized during this section of the course that my groups are often too small (2-3 students) and this may be contributing to my ineffectiveness. I am going to work on this for future classes.

Sean Armstrong