Always believe that anyone can be great

Creating Games are fun and will help students learn!

Always use CAN WILL

Organizing students into groups helps students who would not ordinarily participate in class discussions to participate. Group participation would possibly help the shy student or the one that does not have the self-confidence he or she should have.

Being a design instructor has many challenges when trying to assess a student's progress the class. Traditional tests are not applicable to this type of learning experience as it is all projects based that have be assessed on both quantitative and qualitative values. Quantitative values are easier to assess such as completion of requirements, clarity of presentation, neatness of graphics, etc.. Qualitative values are harder to assess as this can be seen as subjective judgement of a student's creative expression in their project. I have have found that producing a graphic matrix of all theses criteria and using a scale of 1 to 5 (low to high) in grading each category can help a student visually relate to the values to how the project was evaluated.

Next month I will begin teaching the first course for a new class and I have been brainstorming all the things I want to say and do before beginning the first lecture with my first beginning group. In no particular order: Distribute the syllabus Discuss the learning objectives and my expectations Emphasize and describe professional conduct Explore the textbook Relate the story of my career Reinforce their career choice Discuss professional organizations Encourage open discussion I have them twice a week for five hours each day. Any other suggestions would be helpful

I have read about the two kinds of questions, though as a student I would think outside the box and asked sometimes how this would an application would apply to the end user or to top management. Getting answers from the material incorporated into more than just the application to which taught helped me understand the material better.

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Allowing students activities is helpful

It is also very helpful to point out some similar words between the two languages

I believe is becomes over to much for the students with all the testing required.

Some times I find my concern's are I can't tell if Im getting throught to them by the look's on their face's .Its hard to tell if they are engage or not.

Any suggestions on how to adjust to everyone's learning style? Sometimes in my classroom I have students that easily comprehend the topic that is covered and some that struggle to make sense of it.

I use music when my students are doing their projects. Music that is not too harsh or too soothing, a nice classic rock, it seems to work.

What periodicals would your recommend for career college instructors who want to increase their effectiveness as teachers?

Survey students to find out learning styles in the classroom.

Utilize other instructions specific to the class to make things clear.

Presentations should always begin with being a role model.

Matching objectives to classroom strategies can help with meeting goals.

I always use open ended question to draw different answers.