Instructional Delivery & Assessment

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Jennifer Ball

Handouts

How far in advance should you pass out a lecture outline?

Jennifer Ball

Instructor Style

How do you find a happy medium between professionalism and forming a bond with your students.

robin mcconkey

how do i know how to put in what groups

how do i know if they are in the right groups

robin mcconkey

how to tell if you are effective

how do i really know if my students are understanding

Nathan Biggerstaff

Open Book Tests

I am not a fan of open-book tests, because I feel it does not show whether a student learned material, but how quickly can they look up the information. What are your thoughts?

Nathan Biggerstaff

Formative Assessment

I understand the need for quizzes and tests completely, and feel they do an excellent job in ascertaining what is necessary. My question is, what about pop-quizzes? Do those really assess what is known, or it simply just a tool to scare students?

Nathan Biggerstaff

Questioning

I believe waiting time to be the most important aspect of questioning. When I first started teaching I would question notice the uncomfortableness and then just answer it. I suppose my question would be, what other tactics have you used to generate more questions using waiting time?

Nathan Biggerstaff

Kinesthetic Learners

I believe that this issue does arise, but gets swept under the metaphorical rug. Our students are primarily those entering the medical field, so they often times assume that they are kinesthetic in nature. IS this assumption a problem, or should we as instructors promote it?

shobha mohammed

Importance of to do list

Making a to do list is very good idea so that before you leave for class room it helps to remind, what to take in class room and it gives a good impression to students.At the same time students must know their instructor. Last year I had a student she never knew what my name is, one day she was called be financial aid department. She was asked what classes she is taking, and what is your instructor name all she could tell them what I look like. It was very shocking. What happened here, I don't understand.

shobha mohammed

Observation and manipulation

Clinical classes students seems to do better than any anatomy and physiology classes. Once you write on the board instruction, yes you are right steps should be in lots of steps. Students follow them easily

shobha mohammed

Professionalism

It is very important for teachers to be dress well. Students admire their teacher the way he/she look. For example I teach clinical classes and on first day class, we hand over students lab rule regulation, one of the clause in list indicates students hair should be tied back and they must have lab coat all the time. If teacher is not having a lab coat on, we cannot enforce student to follow lab regulations.

shobha mohammed

Planning and prepartion for class

Yes we do provide students on first day of the class Syllabus, class rule regulations check list and course outline.Deadline of projects and module start date and ending date of class. I actually give my students day of four exams already. I don't know if I am doing right thing to give students in advance days of exams.

Dionne Jackson CHEP

Professionalism

I feel that this is one of the most important pieces of teaching. Professionalism has many aspects. Attire,behavior,voice, and concern for the students. As long as you stay professional and consistent in all situations, your class should run smoothly.

Vincent Baldasaro

Reiforcement/Praise

Reiforcement of a students work is something I have always tried to be consious of. Students are "proud" of theri accomplishements and us a s teachers shoyuld try to recognize when a student is felling that way. Yes, there is such a thing as over-doing the reinforcement/praise technique, I have seen other teachers do it, I also try to stay consious of this as i have found myself doing that.

Benigno Mariano

Organizational Tools

Organizational tools are crucial to the success of a restaurant. If a chef cant stay organized, how do we make money? Whether through use of notebooks, haccp plans or even a notebook with preferred vendors, we must organize ourselves to remain profitable.

Benigno Mariano

Clear Expectations

"A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link." Chef Instructors are leaders in the kitchen. We must lead by example and set clear and concise goals for our students. Expectations should be set high and we should adhere to set expextations to achieve success

Benigno Mariano