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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Motivating Learners

Betty, The more life experiences and examples from the field the better. These examples help make the content come alive which increases the value of the course for the students. So keep sharing those stories they are an essential part of the teaching process. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Motivating Learners

Kristia, Having passion for one's field and enthusiasm for teaching goes a long way in engaging students. If we aren't excited it is for sure that the students won't be. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Expanding Your Instructional Abilities

Terry, This is a good way to expand your knowledge of in the area of instructional delivery as you mention. The more experience you have the more "tools" you have in your tool box as an educator. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Instructors as Role Models

Madelaine, Good way to show your students the standards of your profession while modeling the dress, behavior and conduct of a learning leader. This is such an important part of the total educational experience. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Defining Instructional Professionalism

Brady, Well developed definition. You have covered the main elements of instructional planning and delivery. This is what an instructional delivery specialist show include in his or her planning. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Fair proportion of contact hours vs. prep time

Hi Barbara,

Finding a balance between one's professional responsbilities and personal life is a challenge many of us face. In your post you raise a number of very good questions about the frequency of getting feedback to students. For smaller projects getting them back within 24 hours is a good practice to follow. For major projects set a reasonable time to get the evaluated results back to the students. Generally this would be a around a week. This will give you time to evaluate the work without spending excessive hours outside of the class and yet the projects will be… >>>

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Teaching to Multiple Intelligences

Jacqueline, I agree this is the way to keep students engaged while helping them to acquire the required knowledge and skills. This makes for a winning format with which everyone can be comfortable. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Defining Intelligence

Chuka, Good point because it does boil down to clear and concise information with patients. If they patients can't understand or are confused then there is not going to be the relationship that is desired between the health care provider and the patient. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Making Instruction Relevant

Wanda, Students really perk up when you share a story with them. By telling them a story you are increasing the value of the course content because you are telling them how you used the same content when you were in the field. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Making Instruction Relevant

Helen, You make a good point about the use of pretesting and how it not only yields results in terms of the assessment but is also being used as a learning instrument. Thank you for sharing how this activity is a valuable learning tool. This information is going to be of much help to other instructors. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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