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.

Melvin Renninger CHEP

using other students to assist students with esl

I like to use students that can speak spanish to assist students with little english skills.

Melvin Renninger CHEP

Smaller Classes

It states 8-10 in a group but with smaller class sizes that is not possible. I for one like smaller groups 3-4. It creates more imput from all students.

Mackenzie Manzer

Active Learning

As a teacher I feel like active learning is key in seeing students progress. It involves the students individually and allows room for the students to interact with fellow classmates as well as their instructor.

Nicholas Anderson

Active Learning in the Sciences

I TA an online physics course. The ideas presented in this course seem quite useful in a classroom setting, but for a course already geared towards problem solving, it is difficult to implement group discussions or presentations, especially in the online setting. It would be interesting to hear anyone else's experience with a similar situation.

Sondra Wagner

Becomming A Motivator

Finding ways to Motivate the Challenging student.

Wayne Hutchens

interactive learning

I find using the interactive learning strategies gets them thinking on their own and they get downright excited about what they are learning. But be careful, you must be engaged with them, if they start to get frustrated and you donâ€™t help guide them to the correct solution they may be lost for the rest of the day. Stay involved with them, donâ€™t give them the answers just guide them; they feel more satisfaction when they discover it themselves

Meghan Shanks

control and active Learning in an online environment

One of the things I found interesting in this module was the discussion of how active learning can allow adult students to feel a sense of control over their learning. I teach an online course, and I have noticed that each semester a small subset of my students struggle with their lack of control over the course content. This seems to be amplified by the less-personal nature of online courses. I'd love to try implementing some active learning activities in my Skype-style help sessions with the students. Any suggestions?

Keri Cross

Keeping students interest

I have noticed that as a new instructor, the hardest thing for me to do is keep everyone interested. I think part of this is the age range of the students, but as a new instructor I know that there are ways I can improve. Any suggestions?

Leann Davis

Module 4

I learned from this module that people will often retain information better if they can link some importance to it in everyday life. As an instructor it is my job to help them make this link.

Leann Davis

Unit 3

I liked how this unit emphasized the debriefing portion so that as instructors we can learn how to do the group exercise better in the future.

Leann Davis

Music

I had never thought of using music to enhance the learning process outside of a music-oriented class.

Leann Davis

Classroom

I learned from this section that allowing students to feel more empowered about their own learning can help to speed up the learning process.

Melvin Renninger CHEP

Walking around while you teach

I do walk around from time to time but after reading this material i think I'll do it more. I think it is a good teaching tool to keep students alert.

Kristi Halstead

Testing for Higher Learning

Which form of testing do you believe is most useful in understanding how much students have learned the content?

Darren Demaree CHEP

Compounding Knowledge

I always find it useful to explain the skill set they've just acquired when learning something new. I make connections to other ideas and skills that are relatable to the topic, and point out that they're possible to obtain as well. It makes the current success appear to be even more exciting, and limits the height of upcoming challenges.

Darren Demaree CHEP

Team Games

How can you best avoid an alpha situation in group learning?

Darren Demaree CHEP

Music for A Writing Class

What music would work best for a writing class?

Darren Demaree CHEP

Informed, Not An Expert

The best balance for an instructor in an accelerated learning environment is to be informed and curious. Being knowledgeable makes the classroom steady. Being curious makes the topic seem like something of a fun challenge to everyone, including the instructor.

Christa Daugherty

Effective Examples

I've found that the more I can make my examples funny or goofy, the more students will remember and use them. For instance, when I explain the vocabulary word "ostracize," I tell my class to picture Oswald the Ostracized Ostrich who is excluded by the other birds because. I'm AMAZED at how many people remember such a silly example! Plus, the alliteration in the example makes it more catchy and thereby memorable.

dawanna smith