Chelsea McCown

About me

I am the Lead Facutly of Fashion Design & Merchandising at IADT Orlando. I really enjoy teaching in my field and constantly working on industry projects in the Orlando area to get the students envolved and to help facilitate them achieving their goals and having their dreams come alive.

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Chelsea McCown

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Course was very insightful!

Fantastic ideas and great perspective on orientation! Very important information as students are finding it more and more difficult to come to school due to financial difficulties.

Chelsea McCown

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Retention

Focusing on the student is the key to retention at higher education. Every students is going through something or juggling multiple things at once and it is key that we are understanding of the students' situations but cannot solve all of their problem on our own. I appreciate that RT101 helped to establish that and support that idea.

Chelsea McCown

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Students

I find more often than not the student does not want to be identified with their learning disability. On the first day of class I will sit down with the student and discuss how they can be successful in the course and ask for any suggestions as far as teaching styles that work best for their specific disability.

Chelsea McCown

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Different Learning Styles within the Classroom

Personally, I have two very different types of students within my course load. One group is very analytical and the other is more creative. I try to feed both learning styles within one in class assignment. In pairs they can work together, both the left and right brain mentality, by having say a group come up with a window display concept. One thinks of how to present the concept to a manager by crunching the numbers and reviewing the display calendar while the other partner executes the visual by hand.

Chelsea McCown

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Student Groups

For the first day of class with my freshman entry level class, I am going to open the class by having peer on peer interviews with one another. They will then introduce their peer to not only myself but to the rest of the class so that they start the school community with a friend or someone they are at least familiar with on the first day of college.

Chelsea McCown

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Engaging student

I find it critical that the first day of class to engage students with not only myself but with each other to make it an open environment. The more comfortable that they feel with the environment the more comfortable they will feel when answering questions asked during the course.

Chelsea McCown

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MaxKnowledge Courses

I am so pleased with the initiative behind my campus of motivating their instructors to take MaxKnowledge courses. With the busy activities that fill out daily lives, it is hard to train new instructors or even to have training yourself and with these courses they outline key topics that every instuctor should know when managing a classroom. Some of it may seem like common sense at first, but MaxKnowledge does a really excellent job explaining and going into further detail on topics that instructors might have the basic knowledge of.

Bravo MaxKnowledge!

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