I am surprised that such a small percentage of students are tactile learners.

Tip#1 Be sure to write your name, contact information, and course name/number on the board.

How important are wait times?

i can see where this may be beyond some students capabilitys. overall this is a useful course for the novice and experienced instructor.

this information is so helpful in the class for the generation i want it now crowd. alot of useful tools to put in the kit.

the best way to keep an all day lecture (5+hours) engaging?

the seating arrangement really made a difference in keeping the students focused and engaged.

i have included steps from this course in class and it has really paid off in the reaction and participation of the students in class..

I am still fairly new to being an instructor and I have been doing it for about 6 months now. At first, I thought it would be easy but I soon found out that this was not the case. It was a learning experience for me as well as the students. Doing these online courses and with help from other instructors has been very helpful in developing my own teaching style and im still improving.

I have found that getting students up out of their chair and researching the topic to be very helpful. I have them work in groups to find part numbers and facts about various products we discuss. I have found this very effective.

As an instructor, we should always use open ended questions to get are students interested in what we are doing in class, for some of our students that are shy, it helps them get questions ensured, so it reflects how much they are picking up in all of the lessons.

A major mistake that instructors may implement during a dissertation is to select a student that the instructor believes is not attentive due to a side conversation, dozing,etc. This endeavor could alienate the selected student's future learning abilities via unnecessary animosity and possibly cause trepidation among other students, thus destroying the prime objective of the dissertation: the assimilation of a key point.

There is a student that we all know well. He/she asks many questions; is quick to answer questions asked often times without being called on; does not receive critism well from colleagues. There are discussions with the student regarding their behavior and you review suggestions for how they can improve and not distance themselves from their peers. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Which test method do you believe is best in assesing student knowledge in a technical field, aside from hands-on?

I find positive reinforcement to be essential when encouraging students trying a new career in a technical field. Especially being open minded and may not be "technically sound" is always a challenge.

What are some effective questions posed to students to help determine the effectiveness of a given instrcutor? In other words, which questions help their supervior get a true depiction of that instructor, without students who didn't simply didn't put the effort in, or just didn't get it, don't but all of the blame on the instrcutor?

What are some effective ways in engaging the student(s) in class discussion who are shy to answer beacuse they are not doing well in the class and are seeimingly feeling "dumb" when they cannot answer correctly?

What are some approaches that instrcutors take when it is evident that the class is a mix of auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and written word learners?

After 15-20 minutes of lecture I will have various quick games that the class can be involved in. One of those is to hang several large sheets of paper around the room and divide the class into small groups. Each group starts with one paper and writes down something they have learned from the lecture. The groups rotate until all groups have reached all papers.

A student told an administrator that the course he was in was worthless. He got no value out of it and could learn everything he needed on his own. It would save him a lot of money if he just quit. this was after he was the only one to fail my final. I talked to him about the surprisingly lackluster performance by a bright student on his exam and he acted as if it didn't matter then blasted the entire program in an email to my supervisor. How can I counsel this student and motivate him to not only commit himself to learning but most importantly to succeed?