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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Discipline in Critical Thinking

Paula, This is a sequential way of providing discipline development for your students and they in the process of learning this get to see the value of following such steps. This will put them in a good position to problem solve when they are in their own workplace. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Discipline in Critical Thinking

Beverly, It is essential. So many students today do not want to invest the time and effort it takes to acquire self discipline. When they do they reap great rewards in terms of problem solving. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Beverly, I use case studies in my classes a lot for some of the reasons you list. They are a great way to get students to start developing their critical thinking skills. One of the big outcomes is that the case studies I use are from my actual experiences so I can tell the students in the end how the case situation was handled and with what success. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Motivation Through Relevancy and Application

Bettye, Good point and well said. This is where instructor accountability really comes into play. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Instructor REFOCUS

Jessica, You make such a good point about where need to place our focus. It is easy to let the one or two students discourage you when you are impacting in a positive way the other 25 students. By pausing and reflecting on this we can renew our vigor about why we teach and step into the classroom or lab all fired up about the class that day. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Instructor REFOCUS

Bettye, They really like it when instructors make such connections between content and application opportunities. These connections increase the value of the content to the students. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Instructor REFOCUS

Lindsay, Something that we need to keep in mind as we start a new course. I teach 5 sections of the same course which is a gen ed course that students don't really want to take but have to have to get their state certificates. My preparation is a challenge as well as making sure I step into each section with passion for the content and enthusiasm for teaching about it. To do less is to cheat my students. This is why I REFOCUS a lot. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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The Human Factor in Retention

Jessica, Good analysis of how to approach and support students. We need to be a career model and learning leader for our students so they feel comfortable in working with us and appreciate the value of the content we are sharing with them. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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The Human Factor in Retention

Patricia, This is a very important part of the educational process. As the learning leader you need to project a human side that shows your students what a professional in their field should be like. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Understanding Learner Characteristics

Bettye, Yes it will. Having this information enables you to customize your instructional delivery to and for that group of students. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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