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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Feeling Accepted Helps with Success

Jim, It does take a few class sessions for the late comers to get up to speak and feel like they fit in. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Offering Varied Instructional Delivery

James, Good points about how to engage adult learners. Students like change of pace and variety. The more we can offer these two methods within our courses the more students will see the value of the content and be able to work within their learning preferences. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Making a Positive First Impression

James, Good description of how the first day of class needs to go. If done this way then it is a building process from there throughout the rest of the course sessions. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Learning Environment

Elmer, Yes, it is. When this is done the students can settle into the course and begin to feel that they can not only be successful in the course but will be able to contribute as well. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Supporting Problem Solving Skills

Larry, Good point about how to help them to sequence their thought process in order to reach solutions. They need to be able to work through a series of steps if they are going to become proficient at problem solving. Problem solving is really a lot of detective work that leads to a successful conclusion. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Defining Intelligence

Larry, This is something that I am really struck by and that is the different forms of intelligence that humans have. Your example of your uncle and his abilities reinforces this fact. I have been researching intelligence assessment for a number of years and can say that I continue to be amazed at how little we know about how humans think. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Motivation Through Relevancy and Application

Octave, Good point. Relevancy and application are two components of successful learning. We need to offer both as often as we can in our instruction. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Effective Motivation Techniques

David, Students really like these types of examples, stories and case studies don't they? They really perk up when the instructor starts to share such a story that supports the content that has just been shared. Helps to make the content relevant to them. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Effective Motivation Techniques

Adrienne, You are being both an example as well as a model for your students. You are doing the same as what you ask of them. This is going to be true for them when they get out in their own work situation so they need to know how to jump in and get things done no matter how much effort is involved in completing the task. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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Instructor REFOCUS

Kenisha, You make a good point because as humans all the things you listed to happen to us. We need to be on guard for them and head them off as our students start to wear down around the middle of the course. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.

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