As a massage therapy instructor, I feel that the majority of my students are kinesthetic learners in the hands-on environment because they prefer to manipulate in order to learn.

Are there many of these issues at career education ?

Hello, I am not a new instructor but I still find the need to continue learning how to create different ways to deliver the course content, to keep learning fun for all students. It is great to see them asking questions and eager to know what will be learned the next day. I enjoy teaching and know my goal is to enter the classroom with a positive attitude and a solid plan to begin each class everyday. Continued learning is a vital process to give the students the most out of every class meeting as well as growing as an instructor. Thank you.

One of the classes I work in uses the backwards chaining technique to grab interest and help students retain information. On either the first or second day, they install a complete transmission onto a dyno, and I do a demonstration run for them. I show them how the trans shifts, give some very basic theories, and let them know they will be building a transmission that will have to do the same. Throughout the course, I refer back to the demo as we discuss the various aspects of the components and theories of transmissions. It seems to help them to have a mental image of the finished product as they learn about the unit they are working on.

It is important to know that not everyone can learn the same way. People are a sum of multiple intelligences. Some might excel in linguistic and/or logical-mathematical intelligence and others in bodily kinesthetic intelligence. That is why students have different learning styles. It is important for instructors to help students find and understand their learning styles and also address all of them during instruction time.

Do you have support for Diverse Instructors, even with PHD ?

How do we handle student who has complaints from day 1 of the course ? The student has never had the instuctor before and the instuctor has not said anything yet. The class is just sitting and settling down. What do you say to this student on day 1 ? The student rude comments are disruping the class and confusing to the students.

Hi Everyone, Has anyone used the "Tree Diagram" method and how was it used and in what type of class was it used? I see where this can be used in online delivery using a presentation software that I saw only used in an online faculty meeting called Prezi. Carolyn

We have taken many classes and continue to be life-long learners. The most important thing when asking a question to me is the tone of the voice of the Instructor and having the Instructor pay attention while I am asking a question and answering. This applies to answering e-mails or posting discussion questions too. I avoid keying in All Capitals or using the Exclamation point. I sometimes use the Exclamation point if I respond to a statement like "Very Good!" If I was in a live class, then I am enthusiastic when replying even if the question was not the correct one.

Hello, I am new at teaching, but have been in my field for 15 years. I am afraid that I may be too soft. How can I avoid being taken advantage of by the students?

I would of liked to have covered more information on what Rapport means.

I like to use both power points and writing on boards for emphasis. Most classrooms don't have the needed space or are set up to be able to do this, so I have to make the choice either or as the projector covers the entire board space.

I work and teach in the music industry. I usually go out a lot to different shows and clubs to meet with people I am either working with or may be working with. I use to run into students frequently and it always seemed awkward and I could not be myself in front of clients. Any advise for when seeing students in a public setting?

One approach to instruction that I like to use is the mentoring style. With this style I encourage students along the learning process with personalized feed back. I have found that only a small percentage of my students respond as I would expect and become strong indepedent learners. More often I find that leaves my class the same as the way the came in. How can we make our classroom experience more of a transformational process?

When breaking the " ice" during the first class meeting, is it ok to tell jokes? If so, what are some of the jokes you tell?

When facilitating an instructional chat session for an eLearning course, what approach should you take to stimulating student interest? Should you do a question and answer session or should you provide a lecture and then have a discussion surronding the key points?

Our institution is small by design. As the students progress, I see them more often. One student was enrolled in four of my five classes one quarter. Most first days are comfortable. That stated, I do have a natural excitment each new period. Even for courses I've taught before. This comes through; I can tell when it I've had classes I wasn't as comfortable with.

At my college we have over several years had progressive changes in the length of our classes. We started with 4 hour classes, then a compression of the number of classes total brought our classes to 4.5. Now recently our terms have been shortened by a week with additional time added to bring our classes to almost 5 hour in length. Our night classes actually run as late as 11PM. We do have almost an hour that can be used as break time throughout the class. However these exceptionally long classes, even with a large chunk of them being dedicated to practical hands on lab time, stretches the limit of both student and instructor endurance and concentration. I sometimes feel at a loss as to how to keep my students focused and engaged as 10:30PM rolls around, especially when I am feeling a bit burned out on the subject myself! There is no changing the situation, it is here to stay. So I am looking for ways to keep the students engaged and focused for as long as possible. I have done some things like splitting a class into 2 different lessons to at least make the subject matter more interesting with some small success. However, I would welcome any thoughts or suggestions!

I teach a college algebra course and often find myself doing a mini-lesson (lecture/explanation of content) followed by giving students work time to practice. I've taught math other ways (with activities that allow more discover or different learning styles), but have settled on this pattern mostly out of the need to cover a large amount of material in a small amount of time. Does anyone have any ideas for ways of teaching math incorporating more learning styles?

How do we identify learner expectations ? Do we ask the students what their expectations are ? Do you do this on the first day ? Do you ask them to write them down on a piece of paper and turn them in ?