Ricky CraytonCHEP

About me

I always like to broaden my knowledge and to get the students to interact more within the class period. I pose questions to them and let them know what they will see out there in a real world with a real life scenario.

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Transformative and Cooperative Learning | Origin: ED204

we have group lab periods where they talk amoung the group members, then give their answers. When is comes to quizes or test. It should aways be an individual effort. This way, we can measure they adaptability to learn not only from you, but from there piers.

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Developing Learning Activities | Origin: ED204

Most of them do not have experiences in the working world. Share your experiences with them and compliment the ones that share their experences with the class.

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Innovation in Postsecondary Education | Origin: ED204

new students have different ways of learning and we should be able to adapt to that learning style. We should adapt and compare to their learning style to make it easier for them to pick it up and learn.

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Retention

What I have learn throughout my years of teaching is that everyone has different stress levels that will cause them to do different things. I expect a lot out of my students and try to make them understand the importance of safety when dealing with hydrualics. The older or the most experience people that may conprehend an easier way will help the new people to try and see it a different way. The people that can adapt easy, I will pair them up with a person that cannot, most of the time. I will let them know, in order to better understand how everything… >>>

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Motivation

Money is a good motivator to use in my class. You can show them what kind of money $$$ they can make if they pay attention in class and learn to enjoy it without getting someone killed, getting themselves hurt, or damaging equipment.

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ED 104

I have just finish this course and it how to keep the students motivated and help them to try an understand to take ownership of their own grades. Not depending on the instructor to give it to them on a spoon.

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Repetition

I also agree. From day one in my class, I give a full overview of hydraulics and after that day I break the system down little by little. I always refer back to the day before or their labs and expand on it. Hoping that they will catch on to the way the system flows. On what makes flow and how pressure is created. I try to compare hydraulics to air and electronics, hoping they can refer back into their past classes to collect the correlated data between them.

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Excited About the New Quarter

I just finished ED206 and it reinstituted (re-enforced) lab safety and training on what the student should get out of it. How I should evaluate and keep track of them and their records with the new training program. Before each lab day I start off reminding them about safety and any new rules that I want them to know. I also re-enforce what they should be paying attention to or what they should out of it and making sure that everybody perticipates (not getting left out).

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ED 114

I always open up with a closed end question because they are the easiest for the student to speak up to. To help break the ice. Then I follow up with the open end question to allow the student to expand on for a stronger comprehensive knowledge of the material. If their answer is good enough for a comprehensive reasoning. Then I will give them senerios within the hydraulic field to allow them to see what they can do to think through a problem and what diagnostics tools they would use to come to their conclusion.

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