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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Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged in Learning

Hi Mellisa, Good way to offer a variety of instructional learning opportunities. Keep up the good work with your instructional planning because you are appealing to the different learning preferences of your students. Gary

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Adapting Your Instructional Strategy

Hi Dixie, Good strategy. To be effective education has to be personalized to the learner and the learner has to do it. So the more opportunities that you provide your students to do such the greater the content retention is going to be. Gary

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Making Instruction Relevant

Hi John, Good plan. The students need to be able to make immediate use of their newly acquired knowledge. Gary

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Teaching to Multiple Intelligences

Hi John, In situations like this there should be some type of pretesting to help proper placement of students in different classes and career programs. This way the students can use their intelligences and skills to be successful. Gary

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Adapting Your Instructional Strategy

Hi John, In situations like this I create learning teams composed of experienced and inexperienced students working together on case studies or problem solving situations. This works very well in their sharing of their experiences with each other as the work toward solutions. Gary

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Reinforcement as Motivation

Hi Christian, Prompt feedback is so important to students as you know. Thanks for bringing it up in this discussion. Instructors need to keep this strategy in mind as they receive student work and then evaluate it. The sooner the material can be returned the more involved the students will be in the learning process. They want to know where they are at in terms of course progress and this really helps them with this. Gary

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Reinforcement as Motivation

Hi Jennifer, Well said. This is an important part of our jobs. The more motivation opportunities we provide the greater the retention rate is going to be for our students. Keep up the encouragement. Gary

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Comprehensive Planning for Instructional Success

Hi Daniel, Right you are about instructional planning. It makes it so much easier for everyone when proper planning has been done prior to class rather than trying to just muddle through. Gary

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Student Feedback

Hi Christian, Good list of the benefits of student feedback and how it can improve your instructional planning and delivery. Thanks for sharing this list with us. It will be of help to other instructors looking for ways to use student feedback. Gary

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Motivating Learners

Hi Donna, Way to go in identifying and using your persona as a teacher. Enjoy your teaching and your students. I wish you much success as a teacher and the impact you are having on the lives of your students. Gary

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