Cristian Adasme

Cristian Adasme

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I think that is very important to highlight for students what constitutes content, fact, information. And provide a measurable standard of performance. In my case, in technical college, it provides a measurable guideline to determine satisfactory performance. Students learn to see what are the basic, and the possible outcomes of their performance

I think the imporatnce of rationale can't be underestimated. I think it helps having students "buy into" the subject matter at task. Many times when I teach my class, I encounter subjects that are a little obscure, plain, hard to comprehend, or flat out old school and boring. I personally take a little of the class time (typically when I introduce the subject) to explain the relevance of the subject, and its relation to the overall picture. I normally don't include this explanation in my lesson plan, but I think its a good idea to have it as part of… >>>

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As part of my introduction to class, I always make time to find out who my students are, and a little bit of their background. Many times I find out that, -although my class is a required class-, many of the basic principles are forgotten, or have not been applied in class enough to understand their relevance. By asking simple questions, I try to understand the reason for that, and how I can best deliver the information to that individual group, as well as identifying at the same time, how much my students know. typically, Age, and their work experience… >>>

I think simulations are a great way to create real life situations for learning. However, I think they need to be tied up to some kinda accountability or consequence for not meeting the goal, otherwise students think its just a game and nothing will come out of them
many times when I start to lose my group, i say a few shocking statements, something outrageous, but related to the topic. It could be something simple as...admitting what I did wrong In banquets, I started my class by talking about thet first time I did everything wrong..by the book, and I notice I immediately get their attention.
I use a lot of stories during my lectures (culinary) I noticed the ones that catch my student's attention the most, are the ones where I share my mistakes and defeats, it keeps everything in perspective, and emphasizes the growing curve we all go thru in our careers.
in this day and age the fear of loosing your job can relate onto stress in the workplace
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Sometimes lectures take too long and they don't leave enough time for demos, when is a lecture too long? What's more important, lecture or demos?

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