what type of relationship should we have with out students that will foster a great learning environment?

In order to modify testing situation, the student must have a statement from Student Support Services. It is the student's responsibility to notify the support center and then the instructor for accomadations.

Learning Assessment help to keep the student engage in the lesson that you are teaching them.

I have enjoyed reading about the importance of teaching to different learning styles and have read so much about this topic over the past 10 years or more. I can certainly appreciate this topic as I may self have always retained more information when it is presented in a discussion and also written on the board with visuals to back it up. Students grasp and gain so much more knowledge through several means of giving information. Happy teaching... Mary Beck

Significant pre-planning is required to ensure that the learning environment supports the desired delivery of the lesson plan and subsequent desired student experiences for the course material and student competencies.

I have found that because of the current long recession I have students that are of vastly different interests, ages, and previous work experience. For each session of classes and throughout the class I have had good experiences utilizing the Purpose, Audience, Information Required and or DEsired, Benefits for the Audience Member, Objections The Audience Members May Have Regarding the Subject and the Context in which the information or subject matter is being provided. (PAIBOC)

Knowing and understanding how each student learn will also help you prepare for lecture and activies.

I have had much experience with learning disabilites due to my daughter. There are so many ways to help them be successful..patience is first.

I had the joy of helping a women from Vietnam. She entered school with minimal knowledge of the english language. Throught many days of tutoring and encouragement she has graduated and is a successful Medical Assistant.

Utilizing group projects or discussions enables teh students to real life senerios in teh workforce.

I will certainly try to use teh tips given in this course. I do move throughout the classroom and try to watch how fast I speak while lecturing. Good advice.

I try to ask every student in class a question each class period. I find it helps keep them alert, and focused. Although sometimes the answers are not what I was looking for.

how many instructors feel as if they were not given enough training before having to teach a class?

when is it okay to give a student advising for dress code? should it be after after one warning? should there not be a warning?

HAVING A STUDENT WITH DISABILITY TAKES A LOT OF PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING ON THE INSTRUCTORS PART. THERE WAS A STUDENT I HAD IN MY CLASS WITH A DISABILITY AND I WAS WORRIED THAT THERE WOULD BE A DISTRACTION WITH HER ASSISTANTS THAT CAME WITH HER, HOWEVER SHE WAS A MOTIVATION TO THE OTHER CLASSMATES, THEY SAID TO THEMSELVES IF SHE CAN DO IT THEN THEY COULD ALSO.IN CONCLUSION HAVING A DISABILITY DOES NOT STOP YOU FROM REACHING YOUR GOAL. YOU CAN DO ANTHING IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT.

...is how to take tests, especially standardized tests. All professions require the completion of a huge comprehensive exam in order to be admitted into that profession. The Bar exam is a good example: it doesn't matter what your GPA was in law school or how many times you were on the Dean's List, if you can't pass the Bar, you can't be a lawyer, period. Teaching students how to prepare for and take tests will be a skill that they will thank you for (later).

Students often do not understand the requirements necessary to enter certain fields or job areas; assignments that acquaint them when those requirements can be very "educational"in a variety of ways. For example, it is not uncommon to encounter students who want to enter highly competitive fields like law enforcement to have little or no understanding of how difficult those jobs are to land (frequently there are hundreds of applicants per position) or that becoming an FBI agent requires graduate education in law, accounting, languages, computer science or some other advanced degree that the FBI happens to need and be age 37 or younger. Students often have unrealistic expectations about their desired careers that could stand correcting, even if they don't want to know it.

Giving the students a role (like a reporter, detective or researcher) can help them by providing a context for creating and asking questions, especially when coupled with a scenario that they have to "solve". For example, presenting them with a "crime scene" and "suspects" (role played by the instructor and having different personalities and characteristics to keep it interesting) and then asking them to create the questions they need to ask to solve the crime is a very useful critical thinking that students find both interesting and engaging. This method is also helpful if you are a frustrated actor and want to practice your technique.

Learning styles is an interesting idea and has become something of a "sacred cow" in education but the awful reality is that most businesses (and for that matter, professional schools) couldn't give a hot damn about what of learner you are; the message in those environments is typically "our way or the highway. In both law school and graduate school (in clinical psychology) you were expected to conform to the style being used, not the other way around. I also never had an employer ever ask me (or seem to care) what my learning style was--what they cared about was whether or not I could do the job they wanted. I think that it is often the duty of the individual student to figure out how to make the material being taught fit their style as opposed to expecting teachers to accommodate them. Therefore, that might be a more realistic approach to take than to try to adapt your methods to four admittedly different styles. What do you think?

1. Thou shall be interesting. It doesn't matter how well you know the material if nobody is listening. Bore your students and they won't be learning from you. 2. Thou shall be excited about thy subject. If you aren't excited about the subject matter, your students sure as certain aren't going to be. 3. Thou shall be fair and unbiased. Remember how you felt about "teacher's pets" when you were in school? No more need be said. 4. Thou shall be strict but fair. Students need structure and expect you to provide it. Students need standards and need you to set them. If you don't follow your rules, you can bet they won't either. 5. Thou shall make sure thy zipper is completely zipped before class begins. Don't ask. Let's just say I'm glad that you can't really die from embarrassment.