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Good evening all. I am Gregory Tetro I would give you my eye color and sign but this is not e-Harmony. I teach the electrical evening program for PCI in Stratford. I have been here for over 5 years and have a pin to prove it. As you can see quickly, I believe humor is a big part of life and my teaching career. I have worked in my trade for 40 years and could try to unlock a person's brain and pour in the knowledge. Teaching is a passion. I think I have learned more about me by teaching than anywhere else. The challenge and responsibilty a teacher has is more than I would of imagined. Knowing this I need to send flowers and candy to several of my former teachers. It is a pleasure to be part of this group and feel part of the teaching fraternity.
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Online classrooms creates so many problems that need to be understood. Without live chats. You have no idea who is behind the keyboard. We all know student to student interactions is many times sharing and trading answers. There needs to live human interaction to look a person in the eye and know that they know the subject matter. If you are going to test online you need a larger pool of quiz / test questions. One online test leads to print screens being passed around. Essays work great. Different test days for different students. Just like different types of test… >>>
Our course schedule is evvery 18 months. The average cours length is three weeks long. General Math, Electrical calculation formulas does not change. Codes change every three years. Answers are black and white. The biggest thing to keep on top of is the learning types in a given course and the delivery that best fits.
I think every assignment must have a letter grade. "Okay, Not Bad, Needs Work or Pretty Good gives a student a sense of how they are doing and what to improve on.Detail to why a person got the grade helps their future than a grade alone.
Everyone learns at a different pace. Giving everyone the tools to buit their scaffold to match their learing skills is essential for each indivdual to succeed.
What I have learned it timing and organization is very important. Too long and students lose intrest. Too short and they miss it. Organization will keep everything flowing in the same direction and each module wil need to the next logically. Use several mhods to break up the learning type. You need to hit the hot spots of all learning types.
This was my fovorite course so far. Got many great ideas and also help me understand I was doing a lot of things right. I can't wait to use some of the new ideas to make an even better lesson plan for my students benefit.
Just took ED103. Of course it tells me that using True/False questions are only good if they is a clear and defined answer. If this is true why are the only 2 questions I got wrong True/False? Am I looking too deeply into the wording? Does the test creator know the answer so well that he/she feels it is clearly defined? Or did I miss the meaning in this. I listen well and I am very hands on. Is it my reading skills that need to be nurtured. Any way you look at it, I feel the test was well… >>>
I have been teaching for a while but being a student is very new to me. ED102 showed me what I need to retain as well as how to help others retain. I consider myself a good teacher. These lessons and the short videos show me what great teachers do. I would love one day just to get to very good. Maybe this will help me get there.
Many students come in with checkered pasts. They have come to improve their lives and create a new future. The negative side is to make sure that school is not the only part to teach. Many need a little more encouragement. Some need a father figure to keep them on the right path. To say you are just the teacher is not enough. The goal is to get every student to reach his goals. We can carry that for the time he / she is with us. After that we hope we have instilled enough in them to carry on… >>>
Most teachers tend to go with their strengths. Some teachers have charisma and can wow the student with a lecture. Others can dazzle them with their hands on skills. I say stick with what works best for you and make sure it is working with your students. Work on any weakness you have and improve on it. Make sure your students are following you through the course. Anyone who said you need no more than 5-7 steps have never put together a battery operated jeep for a child. You may need 5-7 sets of those 5-7 steps. Just make sure… >>>
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