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Gary Young

Reducing Distractions

I find it very important to survey the class room before class and eliminate any light, heat, or visual distrations.

Sarah Hildebrand

Building a lesson plan and lecture

I am a first time instructor. Is there a good step by step process for building your lesson plan and lectures from a topical outline? It seems to be a difficult task as my lectures seem very long and I am worried about overload. Too much information!

michael fattah

Instructor styles

how often should you be evaluated & by whom

michael fattah

how to create a positive learning experience

how do you handle a situation if your the only instructor trying to create a positive learning experience...faculty is not being managed

michael fattah

meeting class for the 1st time

when you meet a class for the 1st time you may always get students that don't like class or ask why are we taking this course..how do you handle that

michael fattah

What to do when there's no disipline in class/school

from day #1 there is no consistency is school rules or polices

Barbara Kisakye

THEY teach me how to teach them

I have learned through experience that my student have a lot to do with what type of instructor I am going to be for them. After observing students during the first day of a course and solidifying of observations after the first quiz, I quickly develop a strategy of how my course delivery will be.

Barbara Kisakye

Meeting the instructor with the curious name....

I find that students have always been curious about me even before they meet me. That curiosity begins with my name as they all try to guess what my origin is and such. When they meet me for the first time, their curioisty tends to carry them throughout the course again, curious about my knowledge of the subject matter I am presenting. Fortunately for most of them, their curiosity leads them into understanding the subject matter and then later investigating how far the acquired knowledge will get them.

Barbara Kisakye

My plan

I usually have a general plan for each course that I teach, however, the real plan is sealed once I have idea of the avearge competence level of the students in the course.

Marie Furtado

Post test review

I think it is a very good idea to have a post test review. It is not always convenient to do this during the class time as that takes away my lecture time. I do suggest to the students to come to my office and look at their test so that they know what they missed and that it is one way to make sure that they do not repeat that mistake again.

Marie Furtado

Using formative evaluation methods

I give the students a quiz every week. The quiz is mainly on the material covered the previous week. I feel that when they are preparing for the quiz that does not include enourmous amount of information, they will study it in more detail. At mid quarter I do give them a more comprehensive test which includes all the material that was covered up to that point. The students say they are better prepared for the comprehensive tests because of the prior quizzes.

Deidra Williams