Laura Gallant

Laura Gallant

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Retention of students is a focus i have.  it has been a challenging with the diversity of age, culture and educational background the courses I have been teaching have.  I have worked hard to engage my expertise, passion and enthusiasm into my lesson plans but still have found challenges to retaining some students.  I appreciated the ideas of discovering the why the student is in the class and then utilizing the strategies to keep them engaged.  Praise and positive feedback is so important and I believe I can do even more of this.  I also need to ask more about… >>>

Lesson planning has been a challenge as a newer instructor using predesigned content and other times being given a new book with no structure and having to lesson plan the course quickly.  i appreciated the outining of "How to" that this course offered.  I liked how it defined att the areas to utilize knowledge of to develop lesson plans and objectives.  I will refer back to this lesson as i develop next terms lesson plans and objectives.

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