Instructional Delivery & Assessment

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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.

James Pollard

Moving around the classroom

Moving or walking around the classroom can also be an effective tool. By keeping everyone's attention on you while you are walking around will keep students interested about the subject and no sleeping in the classroom. also by doing this, it will allow you to concentrate on voice delivery throughout the class.

Jimmy Jenkins

Body Language

Observe your students when they first walk into your class room. Body language can speak louder that words and set the stage on how a student’s day will be. If they seem troubled, upset or half asleep pull the student to the side and discuss what the problem is. Sometimes they only need someone to talk to and this will show you care about them as a person and how they perform in your class room.

Martha Rothrock

Being a Motivator

I have a lot of encouragement towards education and its benefits to share with my students. I also have impressive examples of success. What are some other motivating factors.

Jeffrey Worster CHEP

Setting the bar

I give them a relatively simple problem to solve,but I ask them to find all possibilities to the problem.By using group discussions and problem solving. I find that even the shy student will contribute.And it gives me a chance to praise their efforts...

La'Keisha Phillips

Videos in the classroom

I have presented shown videos in my classes, some have been in 5-10 minutes increments, one in particular was for 75 minutes or so. During my Faculty training, they discouraged us from showing complete videos due to students falling asleep, etc. Any ideas on what the industry standard is on how long the videos should be?

La'Keisha Phillips

Modeling

During a Faculty training a few weeks ago, the Facilitator showed YouTube footage of "what not to do" as an Instructor. It amazed me at some of the things they did, how they dressed and often times were inappropriate. Being a "model" for your students is a key to gaining respect!

La'Keisha Phillips

Textbook Usage vs. Real-Life Experiences

I had the privilege of attending a Faculty training a few weeks ago. The Facilitator stated that books should be minimally used, if possible not at all, but to use other sources instead. It may be easier to do that with classes such as Photography. On the other hand, with Sociology classes there are many theories to cover and not many real-life experiences to apply to it. I do believe that real-life experiences are a crucial ingredient to teaching, but I do not believe it should replace the textbook.

La'Keisha Phillips

Syllabus Signing on the Last Page

I understand the syllabus is an "unspoken contract" between the student and the Instructor. I am curious to know how many Instructors have their students sign the back page of the syllabus. I am a new Instructor and have not heard of that before. I think it's a good idea. However, I wonder if students will automatically look at the Instructor as someone who does not trust them.

Anatoliy Ovsovich

Teaching is like acting

A teacher is just like an actor , the style of delivery is very important.

Anatoliy Ovsovich

Your handout is your souvenir

Students tend to save the handouts that are informative and creative . They will use it over and over.

Anatoliy Ovsovich

Importance of the night before

It is much better if you prepare yourself at least the night before the firs class and not the minutes before the class.

Anatoliy Ovsovich

Never start teaching without taking teaching courses

Our students are smart. They can tell the difference between having experience in teaching and not having it. Knowlege for teaching in the subject is important but teaching skills has its own place.

Todd Kephart

Question about topical outline and scheduling

I've found that when teaching a new course, it is difficult to determine whether the pace of the course will keep up with a predetermined calendar/schedule of topics to be covered. I often include the disclosure "Course outline accurate through week 5. Changes may be made to the course outline through week 5." This gives me the flexibility to rewrite or adjust the pace of material after evaluating the overall progress during the first few weeks. Question: Is this ethical? I haven't had any complaints about it so far..

Art Degante