I think as a professor, i must calm and focus to give the best

I believe that the instructor can set the stage for learning in the class room. While the instructor cannot make the come on time or put in prior preparation. The instructor can share their enthusiasm for a subject.

I find that this is very hard for students to master. I deal with clinical students more than any other type of student. It is very hard to get them to think outside of the textbook. I try and give examples to students to make them think about the outcome if they treated every patient as a textbook patient. I do find that they improve their critical thinking skills throughout their clinical experience but I feel that it takes them too long to arrive there. I would love to come up with some ways to improve their critical thinking skills much sooner in their clinical rotations.

I like the idea of breaking up the lecture into 15 minute spans. I am going to try this and follow up with an activity and see if this keeps my students more engaged.

Providing clear information on the first day of what is expected of the students is a cruical point for the rest of the term. I found if a give an inch the students will take a mile. I allowed students to text me during clinicals since I am not always with each one of them. I found with allowing this the students were texting during their clinicals and had their perceptor complain to me about the texting. I had to provide specific and clearer rules on the texting or contacting me with their cell phones. A more specific instruction was the student had to ask the perceptor if they could text me. This step made the student accountable for having their phone out during clinicals. In furture classes I will add this to the syllabus. Providing a clearer insturction and expectation of cell phone use during clinical times to the syllabus leaves no room for interpretation for the students.

Many inexperienced teachers will have difficulty letting go of the teacher role and moving into the facilitator role. What exercises can help them in this transformation?

As a new instructor I find having a course outline a very important part of my day. This outline assist me in keeping my class on track. My nervous jitters take over sometimes and the outline keeps me focused. The time I have taken before class to prepare is very valuable. The outline not only keeps me on task, but also keeps my students focused so the day runs smoothly.

In the career of health occupations wearing a dress or pant suit would not be appropriate in class. I believe it is important for students to see the uniform as their professional dress. This includes making sure the uniform is clean, ironed and fits properly. Modeling this behavior will assist the students in showing up to work with their uniform appearing professional. I model my uniform in this professional manner in class and clinicals for students. I think back to professional role models I looked up to and this was their standard of appearance. The standard they expected of me as a student has carried over into my professional standards. I feel modeling this behavior assist the student in developing their own professional standards. Is it appropriate to send a student home that shows up to clinicals in a uniform that is wrinkled, unkept and does not fit them properly?

I was super nervous teaching my first class. Things I thought I had organized fell apart. I really learned from that experience and I just focus on being as prepared as I possible can be. I decide in advance how I am going to break up the groups for group assignments. I have that written in the margin of my class outline. I just want to get everything flowing as easily as possible.

instructor introduction and then couese details

right preparation will give right objective

How to upgrade our skills ? How to improve our Skills and Knowledge ?

I find this method quite useful as my students seem to be responding to it quite favorably. What I started doing was using YouTube in between each topic being discussed to show the class a visual of the subject that we just covered. This typically takes anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes. The brain does need some time to "recoup" to enhance retention. Younger students today use social media daily and incorporating it into the classroom seems to have positive effects on retention.

Minimally helpful information. Predominantly common sense.

I Objectives are the most important part of the lesson... They are needed to ensure that the students know what is expected of them.. Do you agree?

It is very important. Since Concord are preparing students for the work place, profanity should not be used or tolerated in the classroom period...What are your thoughts

I was wondering if there was specific research that was conducted on various ethnic groups to see what "colors", "music", "seating arrangements", etc. would work on which group. I am pretty sure that race/ethnic backgrounds would vary when it comes to learning by using different props.

Students with learning disabilities need more time to complete assignments or tests while it does work in the classroom to a point. In most real world applications almost every job had some sort of dead line. If a student gets to used to getting extra time in the classroom I feel that would be a disadvantage if they get a job and the employer is less understanding of that persons disability. I think a possible solution for this is to gradually decrease the extra allotted time through out the course. for example. If a program has 6 projects you give the student and additional 6 hours on the first project. on the second project 5 hours and so on. You are giving the student extra time needed but gradually challenging and teaching them better time management skills while applying real world stress of dead lines

Being new the to instructor community, I have yet to come to a situation with ELL. All of the learners in the facility are all english literate and seem to have little to no problems with the language barrier. that being said when I do run into that situation would it be helpful to myself or the learner to get a translator? When I do give that student additional instruction where do I draw the line so as not to single that learner out and ignore the rest of the class?

In my experience in both the work place and the military, there are few projects that require group participation where all voices are considered equal. With different leadership styles learners may assume command of the group or attempt to. One learner may try to take charge in a Democratic leadership style and others will assume an autocratic style. Other learners will take a group project as an opportunity to skip out on work forcing the others to pick up the slack. The lacking work will bring the group grade down. How is that fair to the other students? In a learning environment each student is responsible for their own education and actions. As for diversity, I feel that no matter how diverse a group is you will not always have full participation due to leadership styles or students taking advantage of the multiple worker situation. On the opposite side of the coin working with groups is an important aspect in life. groups help communication skills, networking and brainstorming. I think a good compromise is to allow group activities in moderation but instead of grading the group, grade the individual.