Olaf Olsen

The most important thing you bring to the classroom is you. Your physical presence, mannerisms, gestures, and voice all contribute to the image that your students form of you from the very first class meeting. 

Completion questions are an alternative to selection items for testing recall, and are especially useful in assessing mastery of factual information when a specific word or phrase is important to know.

Research has shown that more positions are lost due to ineffective communications skills and personality issues than to poor skill levels. Instructors need to reflect the standards of their field in requiring students to communicate properly and professionally.

Give credit for the correct part and work to improve the incorrect part of the answer. For example, "You are correct, let's see if someone can enlarge upon your answer," or, "Can someone add to John's answer?"

Careful planning is required as you select delivery methods. Experience will show you that you can capitalize on these differences.

In order for your students to retain the information taught, they must see meaning or purpose for the information, and they must also understand and be able to interpret and apply the information. 

This statement touched a cord with me: 

When course time is short and learning is proceeding slowly, work on the material that will bring the greatest reward with the least effort. Plan to accomplish first the learning tasks that will bring the highest reward for your students. When you assign the important tasks first, you often motivate them to continue working until even more difficult responsibilities are completed. Triage thinking forces you to make sure that what you are requiring of your students is essential to their career success.

Students will respect you more if they know you are asking of them the very same expertise levels that the working world requires and that they will be assessed the same way that the working world assesses its workers.

Treating the classroom/laboratory as a simulated work site where students adhere to the "real world" requirements will help them to acquire the discipline needed for positive career growth.

Students like variety in delivery to help keep them focused.