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I am not trying to come across as condescending but I have instructors with 20 and 30 years of experience who believe the their formula is the best way.

What advice or methods would you offer to help a teacher understand that their are methods and approach can be improved?

we use metrics such as drops, incompletes, failed an exam, failed the class, etc. to understand where improvements are needed but the majority of the time the instructor takes a hands-off stance claiming that it is not their fault.

i have a belief that if you think you followed instructions or a policy and procedure to the fullest and were not able to get the required outcome then you could have done something differently and the issue lies with the instructor.

instructirs are sometime quick to say that they are being blamed for a student not passing, but in most cases if the student shows up and participated Edie silly in a skills-based training program like our medical assistant program they should pass.

My question and concern may be loaded and I have several challenges here, man but any feedback you can provide us greatly appreciated.

Thank you 

Dominic 

I feel that another effective way of starting a lecture is to review the previous days material, prior to lecturing on the new material(s). Often times, todays's students, can't remember what they had for breakfast, so a simple review/ refresher of the lecture previously covered, can help tie into the next lecture, or gain the students attention and focus for the next round of lecture materials.

Does anyone have a perferred learning assessment style quiz they like to use in class? How does this compare with one your administration uses, if it uses one? Has anyone needed to and successfully convinced their administration that this could be part of the administration/enrollment process?

The challenge is to put good ieas into practice because in the educational environment good ideas complete with each other, even conflicting with existing proedures at times.  when I studies this topic, the conflict for me was bewteen learning styles and multiple intelligences.  Has anybody else experienced this conflict?  Has anybody used both models at the same time?Open to suggestions.

Very broad and capturing how humans need to evaluate and understand the different types of learning we are programmed to do. My has always been the visual concpet I gather way more information by looking what i try to undertand. but i would also like to challenge myself and practice other methods. Anyone please share your learning methods.

Good pints on understanding the learning styles of your students and to have a good mix of presentation styles.  I have never understood instructors, educators and proefessionals who are proud to admit they never use Power Point slides as a badge of honor and substitute prose and hand gestures over the fact that by percentage most humans are visual learners.  Cannot remember the study but a class of students with power point or vusual displays scored markedly better then those that had no visual displays. Hello? 

Great course for new instructors and much food for thought for all other instructors!

THis was a good quiz 

When students are given the opportunity to handle syringes of various sizes in their Dosage Calculation class, I've found that they have a better comprehension of the rounding rules which they are expected to follow. For instance, when they see that a 1 mL syringe is marked to the hundredth, they better understand why they are expected to round dosages of liquid medications which are smaller than 1 mL to the hundredth. It is likely that they will be using the 1 mL syringe, which is marked to the hundredth, to administer such a medication. Similarly, when they see that the 3 mL syringe is marked to the tenth, they are more likely to understand the reason we round dosages of medications which are more that 1 mL to the tenth. They are likely to use the 3 mL syringe to draw up and give IM injections larger than 1 mL. This is a way that the abstract can become concrete for the student.

I teach clinical and seating arrangements are not sometimes avaliable so, when I get a chance I like to arrange my seating chart in a circle.  I like to look in all students faces and see their expressions.

I enjoy having my student be interactive in the class room, They like breaking off into groups and gathering information and them presenting it to the class

Yes you can learn by teaching others because of you are providing skills acquition and talking out the steps listed.  This reinforces learning.  

I think the ideas presented in this segment are useful. However, many students at my school work full-time, take a compressed 32-month program to earn their degrees and have other family responsibilities that often prevent them from coming to class on time. Advising students to only enroll in course sections that don't conflict with other classes, work, and family commitments isn't always a solution. (I teach a blended online/classroom public speaking course.) How do I maintain student engagement when 25%-50% of the students come late to class?

What are the best resources, research/articles, references regarding the flipped classroom??