Marcus Hernandez

The first class is very important and sets the stage for you as an instructor. It is very important for the students to see you as organized and professional.

Being prepared is key to making or breaking a class. Better to be early than late and make sure you are ready.

I believe your students will look to you as a product of where they are going and hope to be one day. It is important to be that roll model for your students and be professional.

All of these methods and tools are amazing and I can see how you would need to have each one for different students and times. I didn't realize there where so many different types of instructon.

Literacy, even in the trades, is still important. In the school where I work we have the students turn in resumes and together we go through them and make them suitable for applying for a job. We let the students know that if they're resume is not very good via spelling errors and so on, it could effect them being selected or not.

It is amazing in this day and age that I can make a video of a demonstration in my drawing class and upload it to a platform like moodle and the student can watch this at 3 am on they're phone and get help. 

I teach a drawing class and with tech these days it makes it so nice. I can make videos for students to review anytime and get help. Makes life lots easier.

All speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension are greatly important and also to have the students repeat back what they have learned for assessment is all so important.

Make your goals clear up front. Write them on the board. Know your students and how they learn and do the best you can to adjust with each one. Try try again.

So important to keep in mind that all students learn differently and we need to try and keep an open mind on how we can help them in anyway we can with different learning platforms and strategies.