Calvin Grimes

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types of evaluations for your students, methods for evaluating students as well as troubleshooting and grading methods, finally the appropriate way of assigning extra credit.

how to effectively manage your classroom time, how to handle incresingly restless students, and importance of a pretest.

ways to effectively use teaching aids such as blackboards, powerpoint or other visual media as well as soft skills dcevelopment. 

VARY YOUR MEDIUMS. Combining sensory inputs will increase the students ability to retain information. 

You can be the class manager AND the instructor if you carefully evaluate yourself and educational setting as well as manage your resources, materials and time efficiently. understanding the different types of teaching styles and approaches others take will help you identify your own style as wll as hone in the skills to make your teachings more effective.

 

in this discussion we covered how to create an instructor image, common instructor mistakes and how to address them when they do occur. how to properly manage a class and the distinctions between student behaviors and psycology behind those peticukar behavior types. also discussed was ways to improve on your own instructing style.

this covered ways to effectively monitor your students behavior and progress in the course. also discussed ways to deal with problematic students such as anger issues or cheating.

the teaching techniques and methods used to control the class and behavior of individual students. ways to keep attention on the content you're delivering as well as handling innatentive or excesively talkative students.

students often have two anxieties about a new course  which is 1.) do i get a fair chance to get in? 2.) what level of expertise is required to share?

first day of a course should cover syllabus and course content and expectation for your students. Due dates should be a larger font and easy to find as well as warnings about the due date approaching. have a progressive penalty for late work.

 

   In order to accuratley test for knowledge and compentency of your students you have to know what what it is you WANT to meassure of your students. This covered the different types of testing and ways to format them. When formating test questions you must be fair, accurate and ensure it accuratley reflects the material you covered. You can use standardized testing to save some time and effort on constructing test questions but you must closley follow textbook material. 

Blooms taxonomy of cognitive objectives has 6 levels of increasing compexity. knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

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