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Ken Blystone
Ken Blystone

Fuzzy Expectations

Student sometimes have unrealistic expectations of career education. For example, students who watch TV crime shows may think police are constantly shooting guns. A criminal justice student will learn that the real expectation is doing accurate paperwork. Career education will help students focus on facts, not fiction.
Ken Blystone
Ken Blystone

Testing that does it all

Howard Gardner’s work on multiple intelligences has been widely accepted, practiced, and preached for several generations. Yet, we still pretty much boil things down to a math score and verbal score. Soon, I hope, through technology we will add music, visual arts, and even web cam motion to our tests of students. I wish we would develop testing that does it all.
Ken Blystone
Ken Blystone

Episodic Memory and Storytelling

I’ve always been fascinated with memories my mind keeps. I have vivid episodic memories dating back to the time I was about 2-years old. I remember seeing John F. Kennedy as his motorcade drove past my elementary school. I remember seeing Lee Harvey Oswald being shot on TV. Using memories such as these, I have found storytelling to be an effective tool in the classroom. By sharing personal episodes, my students can compare my experiences with their own.
Darren Demaree
Darren Demaree CHEP

Retaining Course Content

Skill building is important in writing classes. You build a sentence, a paragraph, an essay. Teaching writing as a scientific method, as an equation of sorts will alway help the students that say "Oh, I can't write". If they feel they can connect with the entry point of the course, then they feel they have a chance to succeed.
Darren Demaree
Darren Demaree CHEP

Student Needs

A discussion about the uses of a writing class and how it can do more than just improve their career picture is a must for my classes. Making it relevant to their personal lives (i.e. improving communication and expression) really clears the way for them to make the personal connections with the material.
Darren Demaree
Darren Demaree CHEP

Multiple Intelligences

This for me is the fun part of learning about my students. I think the best way to introduce this into one of my writing classes is to have them tell three different stories about their lives. Two where they have succeeded and one where they have failed.
Darren Demaree
Darren Demaree CHEP

Learning Process

I teach English/Writing classes, and when I find myself teaching a class with a lot of tactile learners, we always tend to teach language as a series of knowledge blocks constructed the correct way. What might be a better way to go about teaching students writing that learn things this way?
Anneke Sherohman
Anneke Sherohman

Results

How can we achieve good results from people if they do not gone through situations that would have assisted them in the thinking process to solve problems?
Anneke Sherohman
Anneke Sherohman

Thinking

Not everyone can think in a critical manner to get the right result in working out problems.
Anneke Sherohman
Anneke Sherohman

Striving to make applications through critical thinking.

Intellegence- adaptability and reasoning to evaulate your orignal thoughts and others to come to a common working result.
Michael Goff
Michael Goff

pretesting

I think pretesting is good for the student and the instructor because the students strengths and weakneses in the course can be identified very early.
Bill Koziol
Bill Koziol

Retention of Course Content

I like having verbal feedback after a lecture to get the students input.
Bill Koziol
Bill Koziol

Student Needs as Laerning Tools

As an instructor it is very important for us to be aware of all different learning styles to better enhance student learning.
Bill Koziol
Bill Koziol

Multiple Intelligences

I find it facinating and stimulating to deal with a variety of different intellectual groups in a class.
Bill Koziol
Bill Koziol

Learning Process

I have put into play the topics discussed and for the most part have had a good response.
Daniel Spooner
Daniel Spooner

Effective Power Point Slides

I have found that by sharing my Power Point slides with some students who are having a hard time understanding or learning new material acts like a"scaffold" for them to learn better!
Daniel Spooner
Daniel Spooner

Relevance

A good judicious review and demonstrating to the student the relevance of the material learned will go a long way towards helping the student retain what they have learned
Daniel Spooner
Daniel Spooner

Lop-sided classroom

Hate it when in a small class you have a group of visual learners and one tactile learner, its a task to teach to a group like this and keep all interested in the material....
Daniel Spooner
Daniel Spooner

Recognizing a learning style

Being able to recognize the many differing learning styles that might be in one class is important so that after explaining a concept, for those who need a more concrete explanation, you can draw on other methods or ways to explain a theory
William Donald III
William Donald III

Think therefore...

In my role as an Instructor, it is important yto me that my students learn to think critically. In the medical laboratory we are searching for answers to why the body is acting in a certian manner. All of the body systems do not always function as intended. My students have to be very analytical in their approach to their craft. I would like to know how other fields can relate to this lesson. What role do you feel critical thinking plays in the Major that your stiudents are taking?