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.

Jeannette Young

Classroom Settings

Your classroom should always feel ware so that the students will feel more comfortable.

Julian King

Learning Disabilities

How do you keep students with learning disabilities from getting frustrated? I have not experienced a student that I am aware of yet with this type of disability. I would imagine showing extreme patience with the student would help as well as giving the student more time to complete assignments.

Jeannette Young

Subject Knowledge

Whenever a student ask a question you should be honest and state you do not the answer. In the mean time the instructor should make every effort prior to the day of class and before starting a new subject the question should be answered for all the class to hear.

Julian King

Small Class Size

Is it appropriate to organize students in groups of two due to the small size of a class or let the entire class work as one large group? My classes are small and usually not over 10 students.

Julian King

Repeating Key Points

I have found during a lecture that if I repeat key points at various times it helps the students to retain those points. I often wrap up my class by posing key questions that cause the students to have to state those points which I have mentioned several times during the lecture.

Tami Furr

New Ideas

I agree that we, as instructors, need to "mix it up" to keep students engaged though I'm running out of ideas. Are there any suggested resources to tap into? Tami

Verna Bilski

Learning with special needs

At some point it can be diffcult working with a studnet who has a learning diffculty, for alot of them espically as an adult does not want to admit infront of their classmates that they have a learning problem, therefore they hide and go with the flow as they say.

Verna Bilski

Putting Students into Groups

When I put my students into groups, I usually have them draw numbers. I will take sticky notes write numbers on them, if I have 12 students in a class I will break down and have 3 groups, so I will take my sticky notes and write 1 on four, 2 on four time, and 3 on four, then I will have the students draw a number and that is the group they will be in.

Robert Gamache

Small group discussions to enhance involvement

I regularly use small groups during class discussions to encourage the more timid ones to become actively involved. My experience is that they are more likely to chat with a few other students versus the larger group. Do any of you have experiences with small groups? Do they work well for you?

Lauren Bishop

Maintaining your passion to teach

As a new nursing instructor, I am very excited and passionate about teaching. As a nurse who has experienced burnout, what is the best way to prevent burnout and maintain my passion for teaching?

Patrice May

Delieving Course Content

When delieving course contest one must be sure of the differnt learningn styles of students. Acknowledges the adult listener attentin span is about 18 minutes and focus student with mimi lectures to focus attention.

Patrice May

Meeting Class for the first time

When meeting the class for the first time a brief introduce of background and past experience is important to set the tone as the educational leader. Also this is a time to get to know the students take attendance and post contact and course the class title information on the board to help student know they are in the right class.

Verna Bilski

Moving thru the classroom

When I lecture I always move throughout the class room, this way I can tell who is paying attention to the lecture and who is not, the ones who listen will learn dramatically and the ones who do not learn nothing at all.

Patrice May

Class Prepartation

It is important to arrive early and prepare for the class put yourself in the place of student when preparing

Loren Van Buren CHEP

Engagement

Lectures can be informative and can hold the attention of the class, but, I find that being engaging helps. I walk into the class, address students who seem distracted, puzzled, bored. I don't work from the podium.

Verna Bilski

Learner

I never thought of myself as a facilitator, but I did know and I tried to tell my studnets that as many times that I teach a class that I can always learn from them as well as they learn from me. Sometimes the students just won't believe that as an instructor we can learn from them, that we are suppose to experts at the subjects that we teach.

Loren Van Buren CHEP

Same book same subject

As I proceed through the outline, I am constantly looking for ways to edit and add to my instructional material in order to make it more accurate and poignent. I don't believe that a class should be exactly the same in consecutive presentations.

Shawn Picht

Group Mentality

I have encountered my first "group" of three inseparable students; they walk in at the same time, talk together, answer together, rarely discuss during class together. I haven't had this yet during my time at this college, and it is frustrating for 2 reasons: a) they are very intelligent when they do comment, but b) they rarely speak to the class, only to one another. Any suggestions to get them to talk or engage with other students? (My course is almost entirely group discussion).

Loren Van Buren CHEP

Nuts and bolts vs warm and fuzzy

I feel we often get so wrapped up in the warm and fuzzy aspects of our interaction that we may not convey the reality of the transition into the work place. Certainly, we need to be receptive and concerned, but, once into the work place, the question for the graduate/employee is did we prepare them to shrug off and grow from disappointment, aggression, challenges, and all those elements that are part of work where few are going to throw their arm around us and reassure us that it will be alright.

Angela Monley