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good leson

Good lesson

good lesson

Good lesson

Adult students

I often get students that feel being the underdofg in class because of age and always encourage them to use the older age as wisdome over the younger ones to navigate through with greater outcomes.

Motivationg the younger adult learners.

How do we motivate younger adult learners who just do not have the

Drive? 

What is a best example on handling new adult students?

As a new instructor, sometimes it is hard to connect with new adult learners. What is a best example you could provide to help understand the process more?

Relevancy of the Fourth Amendment

How can I best engage the students in material that appears outdated and historical

Student motivation

What is the best way to motivate students individually without the rest of the class thinking that you only care about one student.

No such thing as a dumb question....

I never shoot down a student when they ask a "dumb" question.  But, it is hard sometimes.

Same thing with a "dumb" answer.  Sometimes I am shocked by the answer and struggle a bit to turn it into a positive.

Great course

 I enjoyed this course

Students as customers

The education of the student can be seen as in business. In business to get your product to the consumers you have to market to the right market, and understand their needs and wants.  The same can be said about students they have needs and wants it is up to educators to figure out how to meet those needs and wants .

motivation

Relevance

As a math teacher, I am providing a basic skill set for the math used in other classes.  It seems good to me to bring in other students/teachers to discuss the uses of math in these other classes.

Student Fears

I teach math, and one of the challenges I have is to get students that have a fear of the subject to actually try!  There is a real fear that prevents them from putting pencil to paper.  I as an teacher have to somehow get the students beyond those fears and it can be tough!  

Adult Learner

I believe in the clinic especially life expiences should be shared. I will often share with students what they will encounter in the woking world. They often will respond or ask questions based on what they have encountered in life experiences. 

online class

Why are the Maxknowledge classes just lecture and testing instead different kinds of learning styles?

Reinforcement

Dose reinforcement really need to appeal to why they are learning?

Teaching

If you wear down during a course, shoud you stat to look at the couse and see if it is still relevant?

Adult learning

Adult learners often bring extensive life experiences to the class room. Do you feel that this my hinder them do to being set in there ways?

Extrinsic motivation

Excellent educational tool for students in underdeveloped countries.

Give a student a free pencil, coloring book, or a notepad (to name a few) and it will greatly encourage education, study habits and support/involment from parents.

Pencil/notepad - Some students don't even have writing tools. A pencil/notepad encourages student desire to write, draw, etc.

Parents - Parents will support student as they see them receiving things that they don't have to purchase or that they never received when attending school.

Believe it or not..... this sometimes applies to adults students in these countries.

Thanks

 

Encouraging Oral Presentations

One of  my  favorite "projects" is in  my Pathology class.  It always falls around Halloween and I allow my students to choose a pathological condition  to do an oral presentation on, but the representation muct be a food item, after which we all get to EAT....  love those sebaceous cysts cream cheese danishes. I don't assign the "condition" or the food item. It is the most popular assignment in  the massage program at the college I teach and after taking this  course I believe the autonomy of the assignment enhances it's success.