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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Developing Clear Goals and Objectives

Shivani, How do you share your vision with your students? Thanks for your input on this. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Comprehensive Planning for Instructional Success

Sandra, Your last sentence sums up the value of good planning beautifully. Being prepared in this way makes teaching a lot more fun and greatly reduces stress for both we instructors as well as the students. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Your Instructional Style

Julie, Good comments about how to develop and refine your teaching style. This is a good plan to follow. Thank you for sharing it as I know your comments are going to be of value to other instructors, especially those just starting to teach. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Adapting Your Instructional Strategy

Fedele, Set some specific plans for yourself about how you are incorporate these instructional efforts. This way you will be able to make small sequential changes in how you deliver your content while enjoying your students. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Motivation Through Relevancy and Application

Robert, Right on! Understanding of the ROI helps to engage students. When they personalize the content through the WIIFM format they start to see value, application and relevancy. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Valuing Student Opinions

Robert, Another would be to have appoint students as discussion leaders so they get to share their knowledge about a topic while leading the class. They have to earn this position through effort and as a result they value being selected. This helps them to contribute to the class even more. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Application of New Knowledge

Michael, You are meeting the instructional needs of your students in the setting in which you are teaching. With the volume of content you have to cover your approach gets the students through it but you are aware of the volume and are striving to engage the students with change of pace and variety. I commend you for this. Many of us have to work in less than ideal instructional settings and I believe our creativity and professionalism enables us to adapt to such settings and still do a good job of teaching. Keep up the good work. Gary Dr.… >>>

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Instructor Enthusiasm

Edward, Good point. If we are not excited and enthusiastic about our field it is for sure the students won't be. We need to bring our A game to class each time it meets. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Understanding Learner Characteristics

Robert, You make a good point about needing to help students see the value of the content you are sharing. Your field is so valuable in so many ways in every field but I am sure the challenge is getting them to see the value. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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Feeling Accepted Helps with Success

Michael, As you say when students feel accepted they are more willing to participate and contribute to the class. This is why they need to feel respected for who they are and what they bring to class in terms of experience. This respect then builds into rapport and professionalism. Gary Dr. Gary Meers

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