Gary Meers, Ed.D.

About me

I am an Education Advisor/Consultant for MaxKnowledge. I write courses that assist in the professional development of career college instructors. These courses range in content from the introductory level to advanced instructional development. I started my teaching career as an instructional technology teacher on the high school level, completed graduate school and then moved into higher education. I spent many years in the area of teacher training at the University of Nebraska. While at the University of Nebraska I stared working with career college instructors to improve their instructional delivery skills. As a result of these experiences I have been a consultant to career colleges throughout the United States and a number of foreign countries.

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Your Instructional Style

Diane, Do you use any ice breakers in your class introductions? Gary

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Your Instructional Style

Diane, What some ways you are going to enhance your instructional planning and delivery areas? Gary

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Instructors as Motivators

Curtis, Good comparison. You just hope you don't "hurt" your arm and start throwing outside the strike zone with your content and instructional delivery. Keep up the great pitching you are doing. Gary

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Reasons for Enrolling

Howard, This is what makes teaching fun. Seeing the students turn on the light bulb of learning while expanding their knowledge base. They are developing a more global perspective through the content you are sharing with them while making application of that knowledge in the class among themselves. Gary

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Preparing and Delivering Effective Lectures

Susana, Keep refining your approach and delivery. You are on the right track with your thinking and skill development. Think how many of the students you have engaged rather than how many you don't. This way you will continue to build your confidence as your experience increases. Gary

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The Learning Environment Effect

Frances, Good way to include your students in the course even though they are not on site. This form of reaching out to them is very effective because they feel included in the learning process and are less apt to drop out. Gary

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Developing Clear Goals and Objectives

Frances, You make a very good point in relation to chunking the content in such a way as to show students what they are going to cover and how they can acquires that knowledge and skill set. This is a critical component of teaching that needs to be planned for each time the class meets. Gary

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Instructors as Role Models

Kenle, Good for you and the results of your efforts are shown through the great comments you receive. Keep up the effort it is impacting the lives of your students. Gary

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Instructors as Motivators

Curtis, I like your list. This is good information for all instructors to be aware of and to follow. Gary

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Instructor REFOCUS

Curtis, Right you are. If that balance gets tilted then students are going to be lost and that means they will withdraw from being active participants in the course. Gary

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