Instructional Delivery & Assessment

Public

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.

Tracy Burke

Professionalism and Communication

Professionalism and communication is important in every professional setting. We should continuously assess our current personal levels of communication and professionalism. We should identify strengths that we have added within areas of development, that we have improved, and how successful we have been with achieving personal challenges. How can these challenges can affect our professionalism and communication within our career fields? -Tracy

Delores Johnson

Identifying Student Needs

I have an opportunity to work with a student with a learning disability. The program counselor had documented the necessary environment for teaching (non-stressful) and examination (required to be a quiet area so that student could focus). The student could also be prompted by instructor or counselor prior to exams.

Delores Johnson

Role Selection

In group projects, I encourage the teams to select the individual roles based on their experience or simply a desire to serve in a different capacity.

Delores Johnson

Reading and Understanding

Teaching a class with students at various levels of reading understanding (particularly medical terminology) presents a challenge. The students must be willing to invest more time in that area. The instructor should encourage and provide as much resource information as possible.

Delores Johnson

Staying Focused on Topic

It is so important to stay focused on the topic at hand. It is very easy to get pulled into another area when in open forum discussion. Staying focused but allowing the class to have some free range for discussion is sometimes a challenge.

Ma. Louella Sebastian CHEP

Underdstanding the correct responses for each question

Whenever we ask students questionsd in class wheither it is oral or written, after they have given their responses or written answers, we should explain to them as to why their response is correct or what makes it wrong. Students should not memorize answers but rather understand the answers to the questions.

Maria Merida

What's Out There

Besides sharing our own experiences, inviting speakers over to give inspirational talks about their professional experiences, struggles, successful stories, etc. to students helps reinforce what we instructors tell them inside the classroom. Real-life stories not only inspire students, they also instill in them that although grades are important, they are not the only thing that they need. Softskills and attitude toward work are also a must.

Peter Hummel

name placards

The use of some kind name card at the students seat helps to learn names quicker.

Scott Zucker

music in class

you need to find a type of music that everyone in the class will listen to. Also you need to check with your management team to find out if the music you choose is appropriate and legal to play.

Peter Hummel

Syllabus

everything the cource will include is great,and it is a sure way to prevent the " I did'nt know that " excuse.

Ranee Gibbs CHEP

Learning Activities

I like the section on Games and Simulations I use this method in my class, my students really enjoy when we play games as a review for a test they enjoy this more then any other review and it helps the ones that seen to have a hard time taking test.

Ranee Gibbs CHEP

Other Consideration

I like and believe in the Pygmalion Effect I have been using this method for a while now and it really works the more the student thinks or knows that you believe in them the more it makes them believe in themselves.

Troy Beach CHEP

review

every morning I will review the previos day.. this gets them thinking about what they did the day prior. Most the time it will bring back the question the forgot to ask.

Troy Beach CHEP

changing things up

Usually we lecture first about the subject.... then demo the task. try breaking up the lecture with smaller demo's during the lecture. This gets them out of the seat and moving around.

Troy Beach CHEP

music

I have found using music calmes the nerves... as long as all the students enjoy what they are listening to.

Michael Goff

I told you that

Sometimes students can miss key points in the lecture. I like to try to compare what we are learning to something that we all know about.

Troy Beach CHEP

interactive demos

teaching in a technical field. One can only talk about a part for so long. If the student is touching the componet as we discuss it. It helps them get a better understanding about what it actually does.

Adam Landa CHEP

Retention

This is something that we focus on everyday.

John MacDonald

Adult attention span

Your curriculum and your quiz are questionable with regards to attetion span. In your curriculum You indicated 10-12 minutes but on the quiz the answer was 15-18 minutes. can you please let me know what your answer should be.

John MacDonald

study guide review

I am interesting surprised that giving students study reviews will give them an opportunity to perform better on tests. I feel I need to disagree. Our society has moved away from the true meeting of learning. Lets just give students the answers. What happened to studying and group sessions of studing outside the classroom for an exam.