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Rebecca Dance

Teaching a 101 Class at a Career College

When teaching a general education 101 course at a career college how have some of you or instructors you know helped students remember the purpose for taking your course? I find it is sometimes difficult for the students to remember why general courses are requirements and not silly administrative hoops to jump through.

Deanna Johnson

Assessments

As a new instructor and watching some of the other instructors and their test choices, it appears most do a variety from all of these topics discussed. T/F, multiple choice, short answer, and essay. Much does need to assess the critical thinking skills of the students.

Deanna Johnson

CATs

I have seen this in past classes that I have taken; however, the instructor never collected them to evaluate. I can see this being an effective tool if utilized correctly.

Deanna Johnson

Questions

This subject material will all come in useful for my classes. As a new instructor, I can definitely benefit from this. Especially the shy students, and how we can reinforce their input if they do participate in class.

Deanna Johnson

Learing Styles

I liked the idea of doing a learning styles assessment on the class. This would assist with teaching to accommodate all learners. I plan to use this idea.

Deanna Johnson

Most effective

What in your past has been the most effective way to deliver course content to a broad range of students (ages and diversity)?

Deanna Johnson

Creative hellos

What are some great openers that you have used that were effective for meeting your class for the first time? It was interesting, my son just started college and he said his instructors did not use anything creative other than a basic back ground.

Deanna Johnson

How long on average...

How long on average does it take to create a presentation for each hour of lecture? How long do you give your students in class to review a case study before presenting it? I plan to break my lecture time up to allow my students to refocus as I remember how hard it was to focus on long lectures without media, case studies, student lead learning etc.

Deanna Johnson

New Instructor and Resources

As a brand new instructor it is amazing how supportive the faculty is as a resource. Just as I have done research on what assists in helping faculty with a faculty to student ratio of one to twelve during my master's practicum during clinical rotations. There are many resources out there, and one great idea I can share with you all is related to concept based learning. It assists the student to bridge the gap between theory and clinical.

Shawannna Spencer

Learning Preferences & Styles

Since there is a different learning style for everyone, would it be to confusing to try to combine all the styles together to accommodate all the student's & their learning styles?

Shawannna Spencer

Ending the Class

If first impressions when starting the class should be good, how would you end the class so that the student is intrigued enoughed to want to return each day to learn?

Shawannna Spencer

Classroom Enviroment

How do you go about creating a learning enviroment that is not to relaxing but calming enough to motivate the student to stay awake and show enthusiasm about participating?

Shawannna Spencer

The Students Attention

If a student have a possible learning impairment that is not informed or brought to the instructors attention during class, how would the the instructor be able to decipher on how to keep the student attentive? I know keepingthe students attention is very important and show be a top priority but if the impairment is unknown how would this be rectified?

Josiah Brennan

Technical lab

Most of our learning is hands on. So it is always a challenge to cover the other aspects of learning and recognize the people that need extra attention.

WILLIAM SCOTT

Teaching Professionalism.

When you are in front of a classroom filled with adults, I have found that teaching professionalism is the most difficult thing to do. Most of your students, being adults, have already been set in their ways about things. it can be very challenging to change their minds. Showing that you are a professional, and walking the walk, so to speak, goes a long way towards getting your point across.

JAMES MELBY II

meeting new students

The first day of class we set up a table and lay out there Id's and greet each student to make sure they fell welcome.

Beryl Charles

Engaging younger students

What would be the best strategy to employ for a group of young students who do not have much industry experience?

Beryl Charles

Keeping the class and content interesting

Depending on the particular industry, using a mixture of delivery methods is important to get the message across. I find that in my industry these 3 particular methods (demonstration, problem solving,& video tapes) gets students excited and foster a question and answer session at the end of the class.

Tammy Taft

bringing today's technology to school

I really like to use things like YouTube, and small video clips into my lectures to engage the students. I have found that if I can incorporate some of these things into my lectures, I can hold their attention for a bit longer. Field trips or volunteer events are also a big thing that get the students excited to learn. Are there any websites in particular that anyone uses for their classes?

Darren Demaree CHEP

Wait Time

The hardest thing for me to do is allow my students the right amount of time to think through the question I have just asked. I want the pace of class to stay brisk, so I struggle to give them the time they need to respond. Should I plan less for each class to allow the proper amount of time for them to respond?