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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.

EXCELLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM!

What are you ideas about to instill excellence in the classroom? Give me some best practices that make you successful instructor. Thanks.

teaching with fun

always think outside the bun when teaching to a variety of students.

Classroom Management

Issues of time management,discipline and assessment.

Keeping students engaged in the classroom.

Be involved in class. Participate in class discussions and ask questions. Enthusiasm is contagious. Instructors respond and teach better to an alert, attentive, and interested class in just the way a band puts on a better show for an enthusiatic crowd

Learners with disability

It's not a good idea to guess if a student has a disability or not. Accommodations, undocumented learning issue, are addressed in career tracked programs that have services to assist students in these areas. As instructors we are not trained to correctly identify the specifics of a disability or acurartely gage the level of the disability or how it should be met.

Good learning starts with questions, not answers

Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding. It also benefits learners as it encourages engagement and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas.

Indtructing diverse learners

In my course w design presentations to fit the needs of our customers. I prefer to work on this problem by developing the spreadsheets, presentations and databases with them. They are then given the assingment to create one of the three by themselves.

kinds of learners

Teachers who include all the learning styles in their lessons will be more effective and have more engaged students. There are all kinds of learners: those who learn by seeing something written, those who learn by listening to something being said, and those who learn by actually doing something. These types of learners have the technical names of visual learners, audio learners, and kinesthetic learners. The best learning situation is one that includes a strong mixture of all three of these learning

Putting it all together

Please advise how a clinical coordinator who DOES NOT do any classroom teaching can make this course relevant to what I do? Would love to put all of these course to use someday.