Im not sure if this a proper share, i just think the most dificult part is to keep it interesting for the learners.

Id appreciate suggestions =)

I try to share my background and experiences with my students so they can learn from and appreciate them.

I have found that using more technolgy for my class has helped the students collect a wider variety of information about the course than the class time limit could ever provide.

How to be succesful in the classroom

Paying attention, there may be more than one anwser

I am excited to share new found knowledge. I am the type that cannot contain myself when I know it will benefit others in reaching their goals. I believe in being selfless and preferring others by being open minded and understanding that the presentation that I will deliver will indeed help them and not harm them in anyway but encourage them to strive for excellence is my main objective.

The instructor for my college program who runs the same classes I do used to use colored paper all the time. We used to think it was so funny but now I see why she did it. It is so much easier to refer to the yellow handout than by the heading of the paper, even if the headings are VERY clear and easy to read. 

This course definitely reinforces that what I have been doing for the past ten years plus of technical training is following closely to the course design.  I fully recommend this course to beginning instructors as well as veteran instructors/educators.

There were many useful areas of this content:

• Use multiple senses to help student retain content of material taught
• Education is lifelong
• Use and develop soft skills for successful professional behaviors
• Have a PLAN B
• Pre-test may be useful tool when class does not seem ready for material
• Point system may be beneficial grading system

It is important that ST instructors bring 'real-life' expereince into the lecture, especially if there is no hands-on skills that go with the lecture.

Students like a varitiy during lecture. Breaking lecture up and showing surgical procedure videos, then having a discussion about the 'procedure', not only encourages the student to look forward, but relate it to the current subject.

Top priority is to Communicate with the students all the time. In class (face to face), email, text, moodle, phone. Give them feedback on the performance. Question/answer session in class. Think outside the box or book. Be creative with your lesson plans. Share real life examples.

I find that when I am teaching math within my classes (especially word problems) a lot of my students "shut-down" because of their previous experiences with math and word problems.  So, it isn't always about their base knowledge they have coming into the classrooom, it is their self-worth from other instructors and classes too.

Roger

Good point in learning technic's and implimenting feedback from students during reviews. 

Methods

While I think that i do a pretty good job of modeling, mentoring and monitoring there is always room for improvement.  I think I do need to improve in the area of monitoring and holding the students accountable.  This, of the three, is the most difficult for me.  One good idea I got from this course was to give each new student a card for them to write down why they want to succeed, who are they changing their lives for, what are they working towards, and have them refer to that when times get tough and they want to… >>>

My students that I have now, want to be given answers and do not want assist in their learning. I get very frustrated as this challenges me to strive to find out what will work and what doesn't work. I already implement adaptive learning techniques, but what I did wrong this time was post their enrichment assignments early to be emailed to me when it was due. And what they did was go through the book and fill out the assignments before I had even gotten to the chapter to be discussed. Except for the midterm and final, all my… >>>

I have only been teaching for 3 1/2 years. As I first started out, I taught the lecture/student model. It now becomes apparent to me that lecture alone is not the most prolific way of getting across information. Working in groups, working with a partner, applying knowledge when appropriate for exams, and or hands on activities is more beneficial, and provides instant feedback to the student in hopes they are moving in the right direction. This also keeps the students interest as they move along in the program.

It is important to incorporate hands on activities to entice students to critically think. In the course it covered a topic called the "weakest think". I can adapt the activity to several dental hygiene senarios and techniques to assist and assess the students ability to learn the tasks.

Gaming has been a method that I have seen spark interest in a subject, creating learning competivness among students. Many students are visual learners in this present society and traditional methods of F2F does not always spark their interest. Playing "Jeopardy" using class content as the subject matter really engages the student while letting the less versed students recognize through peer pressure what they may not have grasped as course knowledge and gives them focus areas to concentrate on.

Writing lesson plans used to be a much larger chore until I realized I can have a lesson plan and refer the technical details to a best practices manual. That way, I can make my lesson plans and have the course layed out and work on my Best Practices Manual one lesson at a time as I go along.

Hope this helps someone else!!