Day one may be the most important day of the entire class, as we get just one chance to make a first impression. Following the six Ps will help to ensure we leave a good first impression. Purposeful Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Writing the course name and number on the board so the students know they are in the correct class is benificial.

We all have different ways of delivering the lesson plan. The main thing is to get our point thru to the students on what the objective is. Plus being there for them after class for tutoring them.

The most important day of class, intro,explain tasks, grading, and acceptable behavior.

The first day of a class is probably the most important. After a breif "getting acquainted session" I very carefully explain the reasons for achieving competence in each specific class exersize. I explain each project in general detail and explain what is required to be successful in each task.

I am directly responsible for setting up the classrooms under my range of influence. To properly prepare a class room, you must lay out tool boxes neatly within a designated work area. I must prepare a system for keeping expendable items stocked,and make sure appropriate training aids are in place. Lastly the classroom must be laid out comfortably as well as aesthetcally pleasing

I was just curious about how many of you have a meet & greet session at the beginning of your class....I have found that this does work out very well to not only break the ice of students getting to know each other but it also shows the students that they really do have alot in common with the rest of the students in the room. It also helps new students to really find other students that have been at the campus longer that have the same things in common with them.

To avoid having disipline problems and to have your students pay attention to the lesson, you should present yourself as a role model. This means dress properly and neatly, be well groomed and speak clearly and properly.

Just to add to a few comments. It is good that we as istructors and educaters now have a resource were we can gather and share informations that will help to improved our teaching skills. Is it possible to also have an ability to acessed pass techniques to evaluated present improvement,in the near future . Thank you.

Carefull and timely preperation takes the stress out of teaching. Less stress for a well prepared instructor and less stress for students in his/her class.

Students should have to think and anylize subjects there learning by covering all subject matter for that course. if we just tell them the answer they dont learn very much , just about what they had to think about. when you ask the multiple diagnostic quest. opon them getting signed off it makes them think about how it works and how certain components could cause certain problems.therefore making sure they have learned the subject matter for that course

Great Instructors will prepare/organize their classroom prior to students arrival. Your students will easily recognize your thorough preparation or your lack therof.

My school uses PPT presentations that are predictable, uniform from course to course and with few exceptions duotone. I believe that power Point can be an awesome tool and keep the attention of students who have grown up looking at a screen but it must authored in a way that the student doesn’t know what’s coming up next and must be full of color and when appropriate action. I can’t seem to make the case for change. Am I right in my thinking? Ken

Defining the word curriculum is no easy matter. Perhaps the most common defition derives from the word's Latin root, which means "racecourse". Indeed, for many students, instructors, and schools the word curriculum is a race to run, a series of obstacles or hurdles (subjects) to be passed. It is important to keep in mind that schools in Western civilization have been heavily influenced since the fourth century B.C by the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle and that the word curriculum has been used historically to describe the subjects taught during the classical period of Greek civilization. What is the real maening of the word curriculum for the twentieth century? If we have one.

I have noticed being in a tech scool we seem to have a lot of students with ADD and they will admit to it. Most of them seem to be the ones who want to learn by doing it right away. So how do I keep these ones interested in what I am lecturing and while doing a demo. They seem to be the ones running around in the class because they can not stay still. It can be distracting to the class. I do not want to embarrass them and I do not want to let them do what they want either.

Instructors who daily motivate their students will keep better retention, higher test scores, and will have happier students!

we preach customer service and fixed right first time, we need so set the example by giving the student the same with the material we teach

The first day is to let the students know what the course is all about. Because of that it is very important to let individuals know what they are in for, needless to say the first day is most important.

The first day is always the nervous day for all people involved. Best way that I have found is to introduce yourself, and have others do the same. To get to know who is in your class.

As the day begins, as an instructor you must have the positive way to transfer the information in a possitive way, by knowing what you are doing.