I am in class now that is challenging and very rewarding. My classroom consisted of a few students that are very intelligent, a few students struggling with the English language, a couple students with learning disabilities that have requested my assistance and a handful of students that are very disrupting to the class. The remaining few students are quiet and getting lost in the chaos. It didn't take long to recognize I needed help. The first quiz scores reinforced the sense of urgency and need for change. Half the class earned 100%, the other half were lucky if they scored 20%. I am a new instructor and have yet to get constructive feedback on my decision to restructure the classroom environment. I carefully paired up students with a partner and asked them to work together as a team. Every few days I changed the teams and solicited honest feedback from everyone. A couple weeks into the course, a death in the family forced me to cancel class the day before a midterm exam. Instead of complaining about the horrible timing of my family emergency, my students made the best of the situation and decided to review for the midterm without an instructor. Every student showed up to class and actively participated in the review session. In addition to their superior teamwork and positive attitude, they enforced my 10 minute break rule and were mindful of not disturbing other classes. However, I did choose to eliminate a few lecture topics in hopes of accomplishing the above results. What are your thoughts regarding my decision? With the little information you have, how would a more experienced instructor have handled this differently? Am I justified in my decision or did I make a rooky mistake?

During the learning period it is best to play soft music or what we call elevator music when students are learning. When students are in groups, we could speed up the beat a little because they neet the boost in brain waves. Towards the end of the class, the music should be low and slow for the review before we leave for the evening

I just made the mistake of answering a question before I read the whole question. Of course it was wrong; that just shows me why the students make little mistakes on questions I know they should know. I know how to fix this problem now

Who thinks that people in the publics eye should be viewed as role models?

I have a lot of diversity in my dental assisting program. Where I have trouble is helping a student from another country, say Russia, Germany and Latin. Dental assistants are required to educate the patient and to deliver clear post operative instructions to their patients. I can barely understand the student when they are speaking and I am not sure how to coach them in 7 months to loose the accent so they can be better understood? Can anyone offer and suggestions?

Students with disabilities just need to know that their instructor will give them a chance to complete their work within the time frame that they are able to work in. When disable students are given this chance, their performance goes up.

So often instructors and teachers teach to the higher learner,thats ok, but it's the students with the difficulties that we need to plan some of our lesson plans on. After reading and complting their homework;thats a form of seeing the work. All students don't understand through reading. Next assign the students to a group activity so they an they can get the hands on training from or the experience the book wants them to learn. Then give have a group discussion to see what the students have learned so far. Finally, give them a quiz to finalize what they have learned from the lesson

When we put students in a group it helps them to learn from one another, it keeps them interested in the class, and it helps them to participate because they know they are a part of other peoples grade.

Teaching communication is a difficult task if you are a shy person or if you are not a peoples person. In order to teach communication, you have to be able to communicate. I had instructors I fell asleep on because they sat behind their desk to lecture the class, or they stood in one spot the whole time they were speaking. When you are standing in one spot to teach, your voice becomes monotone and you will lose the attention of your class.

In this module it really gives you a lot more to work with, since it exposes you to the different ways to approach and deliver my Syllabus. I really got a lot out of this lesson, thank you.

This module showed me how to approach the students in a friendly and unnervous way. Is great to have a course like this one so every rookie instructor, to advance instructor can benefit from it. It gives you great ideas.

This module is going to help me a lot, I'm a first time instructor at the professional level and it showed me things that I wouldn't have thought about it unless one of my associates might have mention the planing and preparation of the course being thought.

As an instructor your primary goal is to continually monitor whether the students have mastered the learning objective for the day's lesson. One way to do this is by asking questions periodically throughout the class instructin to ensure that each objective is covered thoroughly.

I believe that when you first meet your class as an instructor that the students need to understand what your expectations are in accordance with the syllabus. The assigments, projects, and assessments should be clearly explained, as well as, the course rules that demonstrate the students' adherence to professional standards that are expected to transfer to the workplace upon graduation.

when i start to give the lecture after 10 mints i will give them example of a disease and we will talk about the disease and if one of the student had same disease a broad discussion will start and after agaim 10 mints i will return back to my subject. Also by using animation with each subject will help more.

Instructors need to take time to go over materials, create supplemental materials, and to have all handouts, etc. ready for class before the class starts. Coming in 30 or 15 minutes early will not work since as Murphy Law states "if something can go wrong it will". To avoid rushing and your students getting the impression that you are not prepared or organized prepare everything as far in advance as possible.

with diverse learners and those with special needs it is important to identify what has worked in the past in order to incorporate any special teaching aides and ensure the students continued success

having students working in groups can be a very benificial exercise as students exchange ideas, it is also easier to monitor as you move around the room, pausing to give feedbcak or answer questions in a more one on one enviroment

Both are ancious teacher and students

does anyone have any new ideas on how to reward for perfect attendance?