eye contact with your students is very important. by moving your eye contact rom student to student on a continous basis the students seem to fwel like you are talking to them directly. this improves their learning.

A couple of techniques that have worked for students with disabilities in my classes are allowing breaks and extending the time for tests. I am thinking that putting a box around the text might be effective as well, as this module's readings suggest. Some students do test better in a room alone, and I have found that some folks perform better if they are alone and can read the information aloud. That has helped some of my students with reading disabilities in the past.

I usually have a handout that I let my students pair up with. I have them ask questions about each other like tell me something some people may not know about you or if they are married with kids what their goals are, how they decided on this career etc. This really sparks up some good conversations. Then when they turn them into me it gives me a better understanding of who they are. I also ask if they are hands on or a viusal learner which helps me plan my classes better.

Without a doubt, vivid language that allows students to visualize more clearly what we're trying to express during a lecture. I use anecdotes and metaphors whenever possible, because I do believe it makes lectures more memorable for students. This was a good module. It is important to give students a clear sense of where each class is going, and key points need to be repeated and reinforced. I had a teacher once in a history class who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt and jumped up on a table, a la charging up Kettle Hill, and I don't go to that extreme, but I do think students like to see a "personality" in front of the room, rather than a droning lecturer.

I teach online. When I do my powerpoints I use pretty pictures from clip art to enhance the presentation slides. My students seem to specifically like landscape pictures. Sometimes, when what we are learning is complex, I put a "Moment of Peace" slide with a beautiful landscape picture. The students say they like it. This module seems to suggest that an instructor should only use visuals with a relationship to what is being taught. But I teach medical records so the landscapes provide a needed respite. What would you do?

I am proud of the fact that I have a learning disability as an Instructor! Yes it can still be difficult for myself to learn new material. I always let my students know about how I have this learning disability and how I have been able to overcome my disability thus far! I am a BSN RN and furthering my career/education for my PhD in Nursing Education for this very reason. I feel that we can motivate and encourage our students by sharing our life history with them. From what I have seen my students feel empowered to continue on in their nursing education after hearing how I have been able to overcome, thus far, my learing disabilities. It also opens my eyes to be more compassionate and understanding with how these students learn.

An instructor needs to maintain an open and humble minds set when it comes to technical instruction. As things change constantly and frequently. A student's personal experience may have them on the cutting edge. When you are not.

Being a musician i can relate to music as an overall source of calmness, it is very good for the soul.

I have been wondering if anybody else felt pressured to limit alternate activities due to the amount of content a particular course may require. Do instructors feel a time pressure when trying to include alternate activities in the classroom?

IT's always healthy to question students at the end or during lecture to keep them in check as well engaging the students, also for them to retain the infos.

The delivery of each lecture ought to be with passion as it'll engage the students.

it's vital for a good first impression to the class. This will give the class a good understanding of the professors.

There are variety of learning fashions for student and it is best to know different manners to teach in one's class.

Planning and Preparing before a lecture is vital for the teacher as it shows reliability and dedication towards education.

Being a Teacher and understanding students are vital in a teaching environment.

How much time does an instructor need to prepare for a class they have taught numerous times before?????

Subjective testing requires more thought, input and application for the student than objective testing

When we discuss diversity and the issue of ableism comes up in class, I find it important to let the students know that I have a learning disability and that as a child I was labeled LD gifted. My students already know that I have achieved my Bachelor's and Master's degrees as well as licenses as a notary public, a massage therapist, and an esthetician so they know that I have achieved a lot and let nothing stand in my way. I also explain to them that this is due to the fact that I was born deaf. This allows students to get a better understanding of learning disabilities in case they come across any learning disabled patients and also allows for students with learning disabilities to understand that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to do.

Some students who may have done really poor on an early test may feel anxious about learning new information on the next day of class. What are the benefits of a post-test review?

I had a student that was a high school graduate, but had practically no actual education. He did not understand the concept of what the zeroes at the end of a number did to that number. (A 1 or 10 or 1000 were nebulous in his mind.) He was in an Electronics Engineering Technician course. What I taught him as new information he grasped immediately and had partial understanding of what it meant and how it fit into the course material. However, anything that required previous knowledge to grasp was difficult of not impossible for him to understand. I slowed the pace of the course in order to help him learn. The other students in the class did their best to help him learn, but in the end, he dropped because he was not "getting" the information in a useful way. He went into another course that had the least reliance on previous knowledge and did rather well. He was not dumb, just uneducated. He was extremely smart, capable of learning new information rapidly, he just could not relate it to the knowledge he should have had but did not.