Sherri DeVitis

Students have to first buy into the course at the beginning and it is especially difficult if you are teaching a course that is not part of the core curriculum of the student's major.  The instructor in those cases needs to motivate students to become engaged in the learning objectives by connecting their career choice to and applying it with real-world examples of how that class will increase the chances of success in their chosen career field.

One of the courses that I currently teach is Psychology.  The one chapter that I really emphasize in the book is the one concerning stress management and coping skills.  Students need to understand primarily how to management their time and secondly how to cope with the issues that interfere with doing well academically.  I also try to convince students that once this is achieved that every other stressor in their lives can be handled in a similar fashion.

I was able to take what I learned from this course and consider it for future lesson plan strategies.  My degree in education also assisted me in taking the assessments.

I found the ED103 course to be very effective.  I especially learned a great deal by listening to the professors explain how they utilize various assessment techniques in their classrooms, as well as, what worked and didn't and how to determine what types of assessments to use.