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Organizing Students into Groups

What are some ways to organize students into work groups?

Evaluating Individual Effort While Working with a Group

Students are evaluated as individuals when performing MA challenges, as well, when they have a project that is due at the end of each Mod. They are given a point system.

Evaluating Individual Effort While Working with a Group

How do you evaluate individual members of student groups?

Identifying Important Communication Skills

One of the most important communication skills in the IT field is spelling and grammar. In our industry, there is a lot of email communication with customers and it is very important to be able to express issues in a non-threatening, easy-to-understand manner.

Improving Your Communication Skills

Jane, Fidgeting. Even as an experienced instructor I find myself fidgeting. I have the old pen snapping symdrome. The why is obvivous. It is annoying. I know it is distracting. Mark

Using Memorable Examples

Students will remember a story before they remember a stated fact. When you compare a difficult concept with something the student already knows it starts to sink in and that is when you see the light bulbs go off.

Locating Yourself in the Classroom

Moving around in the classroom helps you to connect with each student on an individual basis. Also, this makes it more comfortable for certain students to ask questions to the instructor, if the instructor is nearby.

Maintaining Eye Contact

"Looking someone in the eye" helps develop repore with them. It is a method of including them, engaging them in what you are doing. Maintaining eye contact helps you to read their interest, their emotion, their agreement or disagreement, their understanding. It helps me pace my lecture also.

Identifying Important Communication Skills

What communication skills do you believe are the most important in a diverse learning environment? Why?

Identifying Important Communication Skills

What communication skills do you believe are the most important in a diverse learning environment? Why?

Improving Your Communication Skills

As an instructor, which communication skills would you personally wish to improve? Why?

Using Memorable Examples

Why are memorable examples valuable in helping students to remember course content?

Locating Yourself in the Classroom

Why is it important for an instructor to move around the classroom or lab?

Maintaining Eye Contact

What is the value of having eye contact with students?

Pygmalion Effect

This is a hard one for me to do at times. I try not to say "this is going to be difficult" or "not very many people get this right" Statistics show that is an accurate figure, however, I may be maintaining that figure due to the way I teach it. If I always say "this is going to be difficult" then it will be difficult and I subconsciously will give in to that "fact" and never make changes to improve. Great topic and I will work on making a difference there.

CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

Through close observation of students in the process of learning, the collection of frequent feedback on students' learning, and the design of modest classroom experiments, teachers can learn much about how students learn and, more specifically, how students respond to particular teaching approaches. Classroom Assessment helps individual college teachers obtain useful feedback on what, how much, and how well their students are learning. Faculty can then use this information to refocus their teaching to help students make their learning more efficient and more effective.

First Time teaching

I'm newly hired instructor and no experienced at all. I'm only 28 yrs. old! Most of my students were the same age as me so they treat me as their buddy although I'm keeping distance! I feel like I don't get the respect that I wanted like If I asked them to perform certain skills that I thought them, I feel like I need to beg them just to do it! What should I do? Is it because of my age?

How do answer/respond to a question that was just answered?

How do you respond to a student who asks a question I have answered within the last 5 - 10 minutes? Is it insulting to ask another student to answer it?

Hands On

As an electrical instructor, I find that there is nothing like having hands on and the tool belt on. My students are having fun and learning. Note: It is very important that they learn from text books on safety and why they do what they do.

Re: Hands on demo

I would like to enter into a discussion on Hands on Training vs Classroom. Having all four of the learning styles to work with I like to use state changes thru out my day in class. I will take the class into a lab area with instruction sheets and give the group the class around the diesel equipmen. The clue to make this change is when the line to the break area has started. This exercise does the trick to keep the class on task. I will look to the clock and if we haven't had a state change in the last 20 minutes it is time to do a hands on presentation. I have even at times ask the students all to stand up and do a little exercise to get the blood moving.