Reynaldo Acurio

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All instructors have different styles and there is always feedback. I think somebody must adjust the teaching style (sometimes that is hard) to what the feedback is showing. If after 2 or 3 terms/semesters you always get low feedback grades then it might be time to adjust. On the other hand if you get good reviews then you must be doing something correct but we have to remember that there is always time to improve

Reynaldo Acurio

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RT103 -> School Involvement

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Yes, I agree. I participate on school retention but this course provided me with an organized way to see how things should be done and the importance of each step of the process. As a faculty sometimes I feel that I am part of orientation but I can see now there are other areas I can be part of

Reynaldo Acurio

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Retention

It was a very informative course. There were some items I was aware of but there were several items I was not familiar with like the different intervention techniques. The course also highlighted one very important item which is that instructors are not the most important agent in student retention but rather instructors are only one part of the team resposible for student retention.

Reynaldo Acurio

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Giving awards?

I think this helps but I think sometimes also get lost in all the myriad of documents and postings available for students. Institutions where there are 500 students taking 1 course, I think that having a Dean's list by with a few names in there posted in a hallway it does helps but it is minimal because usually students in a Dean's list are not usually students needing much tutoring or help

Reynaldo Acurio

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Retention is important but.....

I understand that retention is important and that professors are the ones in contact with students but it is also important to remember that students have different type of issues, learn in different ways, instructors are different (adjunct vs full time), class sizes are different (regular classroon vs auditorium), student services are different (tutoring vs advisors) etc etc. Sometimes the professor cannot identify the student with issues (i.e classroom size) and many times the professor refers the student but the student get lost in the system . What to do?In my opinion that is the 1 million dollars question.

Reynaldo Acurio

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Excellent training. Provides you with very good information about options to control student behavior in class. A lot of time we do not think about it and when the situation comes we do not know necessarily how to proceed. Also it helps you understand that some (minor or major) changes in your teaching style may be necessary

Reynaldo Acurio

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It was good training to remind me to include more open questions during my classes. Too many closed questions is not good, they might be convenient so you can cover the material during the alloted time but too many closed questions is not good.

Wait times is also critical, sometimes we just forget to wait and allow students time to think about their answer. In general when we do not think we may not provide good or accurate answers

Reynaldo Acurio

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Sometimes we forget that extrinsic motivation can not be a good tool when used for too long or too much. We all like rewards (extrinsic motivation) but too much of anything is not good. A good balance between extrinsic and intrinsic motivators is a better recipe

Reynaldo Acurio

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ED 106

This course was very interesting specially the topic related to the student with disabilities. I could not read the sentence provided as an example of dyslexia. Now I understand how some students with this problem may feel

Reynaldo Acurio

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Learning disability or not?

In one of the last classes I taught I had fill in the blank quizzes. I noticed that one of the students had problems writing down the answers, for example: the collecting duct was writen as ....the coletin dut...or the bones was writen as ....the bomess At the beggining I tought it was just mispelling of the words but then 95% of answers in 12 quizzes were like that. How do you approach this student, you do not say anything or do you refer them to somebody whithin the institution you are teaching?