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.

Gay Williamson

Kinesiology and Active Learning

I am currently teaching a Kinesiology course which lends itself well to active learning. We talk about each muscle, go to the massage tables for palpation, and I ask the students questions about origin/insertion and the muscle action. It helps the students visualize if I use something on the skeleton to show where the muscle's origin and insertion are, and they can see how a ribbon shortens when I perform the movements.

Nazi Mohseni

Mini Lectures

I agree for having mini lectures, since the attention span is short for most of the students, and also keeping students involved in discussion, and using different style of teaching such as showing videos, and giving demos, so this way they don't get bored.

Nazi Mohseni

First impression

Making a first positive impression is very impotent by getting in class early and greeting students at their arrival, and having all materials like syllabus, lecture outline, calendar, and agenda for the day ready for students.

Nazi Mohseni

Course Syllabus

A well prepared syllabus include policys for Attendance, Professionalism, Practical/Lab, Quizes, Exams, Homework,Missed tests or assignments, Academic dishonesy, course requirements, and grading criteria.

Andrew Imm

Times Available to Students?

What are good times to be available for students? Should we be available 24/7?

Michael Tran

STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY

Which lecture methods would be the most effective, passive or active?

Nazi Mohseni

Motivating Learner

So many Career Colleges students come with lot of personal problems that makes motivating difficult. I will ask questions regarding where do they see themselves after graduation and show them the biger picture.

Tom Coniglio CHEP

Active Learning

I use a variety of teaching methods in my class. Active learning has been very successful.

Antonette Deguzman

New Instructor

This is my first time to teach, been in the field for 15 years. Teaching a group is really different but after reading the topics and participating in this forum enhances my knowledge on how to be very comfortable, confident and be profesional at all times. Any more suggestions on how to be a good talker in front of my class because I am so nervous even I am knowledgeable in the field that I will be teaching.

lourdes Rubio

different types of activities

It is important to incorporate different types of learning activitites in the classroom, so the instructor can send the message he or she is trying to explain and the students can understand better.

Alicia Hardman

Professionalism

The one thing I try to stress to my students is professionalism. Being professional in the work force is very important. It helps keep the retention of your customers, staff, and outside encounters.

Brittany Kitchens

A Well-prepared Syllabus

As well prepared as we can be with a syllabus, we cannot prepare it as well as we would like because of a number of reasons. 1-We cannot access them until the last minute. 2-We are no longer able to edit them.

william hall

Socrates - Question

I didn't see this in the module, so I thought I'd ask... Does anyone here use the Socratic Method? If so, what does this method mean to you, and how do you use it in your class?

Noel Figueroa

learning styles

All instructors should attempt to address distinct learning styles by use differentiated learning techniques.

Noel Figueroa

instructors only get one chance

As with most in life, you only get a chance to make a first impression once. The tone of the classroom will be set from the first impression. Students will immediately gauge the level of commitment has by the first impression.

Noel Figueroa

taking of things on the front end

Taking care of the mechanical aspects of the classroom from the outset allows instructors to focus on the content. More importantly, ensuring that all the classroom mechanical aspects of the classroom are understood by all students avoids several misunderstandings.

Noel Figueroa