Daniel Spooner

Location: tn

About me

Instructor of HVAC/R in TN, I have worked as a Stationary Engineer for over 25 years. I have been the cheif engineer in many of San Francisco high-rise office buldings and worked my way up to the level of property manger of a high-rise building. This is my second term as a teacher of HVAC/R and I enjoy it most now because I have a lot more experience under my belt in my field than I did when I first taught!

Interests

music, history

Skills

hvac/r, property management and facilities management

Activity

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ED109 Lesson Planning

Great module, a lot of good info

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Attainable Skills & Objectives!

Setting reasonable and challenging objectives in a course will give a certain satisfaction to a student at the end of it all if they feel as though they were challenged and obtained a skill-set that will aid them in their trek towards theeir new career!

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Utilizing Internet Resources

I have used â€œYoutubeâ€ and other online sources for both the good information they can convey or to demonstrate to students how things â€œare-notâ€ done! Students have said that they appreciate the value added information and a break from a lecture or as a means to give a visual of what we are about to discussâ€¦

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Back-up of Back-up Lesson Plans

I have learned that there is a very good reason to have a â€œback-upâ€ lesson plan, in fact an instructor should have a back-up, back-up plan for those days where none of your AV aides wonâ€™t work, and you cannot get to the internet and all else just plain fails! There is nothing worse than standing in front of a million pairs of eyes with nothing to say or do..

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Knowing The Material

Taking the time to read through all of the supporting material and chapters will help you, the instructor, to become familiar with the material and give you a chance to look for any miss-information or lapses in the material before trying to present it to the students!

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ED108

Some very interesting concepts with regards to the different adult learners and the many ways an instructor must learn to effectivly communicate information to them!

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Effective Power Point Slides

I have found that by sharing my Power Point slides with some students who are having a hard time understanding or learning new material acts like a"scaffold" for them to learn better!

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Relevance

A good judicious review and demonstrating to the student the relevance of the material learned will go a long way towards helping the student retain what they have learned

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Lop-sided classroom

Hate it when in a small class you have a group of visual learners and one tactile learner, its a task to teach to a group like this and keep all interested in the material....

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Recognizing a learning style

Being able to recognize the many differing learning styles that might be in one class is important so that after explaining a concept, for those who need a more concrete explanation, you can draw on other methods or ways to explain a theory

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