We as instructors should always act professional, because be professional show students how to be in the work field and at school.

It takes time to prepare for courses, but it is well worth the time and effort you put into it. It will releive lots of stress. DO IT!!!

This is a valuable resource that must not be overlooked.

This will help more than anything, along with knowing your subject matter.

It can be nerve racking at first, but then you observe and learn the student and you are well on your way to having a successful and meaningful class.

as an instructor you must develop diffrent ways to present material to students because there are diffrent ways individuals learn the same material from same or diffrent instructor.

teaching techniques is something that has to be unique to every individual in front of students, because what may be a good teaching style for one individual may not have that same delivery for the next person.

a facilitator must build a rapor with his or her students to be effective in their teaching to make them approachable by the students.

all teaching, no matter what is being facilitated requires a certain approach for its delivery and impact to be effective.

Today during lecture i thought that i switch things up a bit and started with my demo plate of food. I used the debrief method as always but discussed the finer details of this dish, followed with the assembly of this tri-colored causa dish. I really noticed how much more my class was intuned with my demo and asked more questions at the end. The best part of today is that almost every team duplicated my dish and went out of the box on their presentation skills ^_^

I make sure the students know that no question is a stupid question. I like to encourage even the quite student, who is reluctant to say anything by asking a question and giving a partial answer and asking the student to give me the rest of the answer. It often breaks the ice and the student opens up more.

I often reward the student with extra credit points if the student gives me a correct answer on the topic that we are currently discussing or one that we have discussed previously. I will ask questions frequently during the lecture and I know that the students pay attention so that they can earn some credit points and they encourage me to keep asking questions.

I know that it is not possible to target 100% of the class's learning style all the time. I do try to use Power point with a lot of diagrams (visual), Lecture (auditory), reading (written) and an assignment that involves labelling and coloring .

I think it is very important to make the students feel that they can succeed and pass a course and to be successful they have to be in the class and together the instructor and the student can achieve what the students thought was impossible at the begining of the quarter. Making the students believe that they can do it is the half the battle.

Students with Learning Disabilities are very intelligent but just have a different style of learning and comprehending. They struggle at first with instructors who do not understand their disabilities. However, once an instructor is aware of it, its the instructors responsibility to take the time and effort to help the student succeed in class. Extra explaination and "one on one" time helps the students.

Students with English as a learning language can be difficult as an instructor to evauluate the problem or question. Sometimes I have a difficult time communicating with ELL students with heavy accents or limited English vocabulary. The best way I have found to face this issue is to take your time to fully understand what they are trying to say. I write down their question or problem so they can see it in writing. Usually seeing it in writing helps us communicate better.

Group assignments are very effective. The students are learning how to communicate with each other and understand what contribution will be necessary in finishing a project. They also keep each other in check to be on top of their responsibilities.

Eye contact is very important. It shows the students you are in charge and in control of the class. Not only that, it creates a personal connection with the students. As a new instructor, I use to get nervous and avoid eye contact. However, I found that I had more control over my class if I make an effort to make eye contact with everyone in class.

Many times we are told that we should play games in class, add many activities, and etc. That is fine when there is time, but to sacrifice the syllabus and the students' ability to complete all their work on time. I love to bring in different stuff; however, it seems to me that if by bringing some of this stuff in stresses the students, then why bother. I like to play learning games, but they are trying to force us to do all different things just to show "the powers that be" that we are doing this. If instructors are not comfortable, then maybe there is a reason or something that could be done to help the instructors to get comfortable besides just saying "do it".

I try to use different learning styles: written, auditory, visualization and tactile as I teach. It does help the students to have a power point prior to the class so that they don't have to keep taking down notes. This will let them focus more on the lecture.