Gabriel Alvarez

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Blurred lines

Do you think its hard to distinguish the differences between emotional intelligence and common sense?

Gabriel Alvarez

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Multiple Styles of Learning at once

As a culinary instructor, I find it challenging to keep all of my students engaged in the subject matter at the same time. During Demo/lecture days, I find it hard to keep all of the students entertained with what we are trying to demo. I understand that not everyone learns the same way, so I try to go over the lesson 2-4 different ways. I have noticed that when I take that approach, it's a more effective way of teaching the entire class. Especially with having such a broad age range in students. -Gabriel Alvarez Le Cordon Bleu Chicago

Gabriel Alvarez

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Distraction in the class

As a chef instructor, I find it hard to tell my students to not use their phones for notes. Even though I tell them to write it down on a notebook, they go home and copy it onto their notes application on their smartphones. I often catch them on their phones, not reading the notes that they claimed to have taken. I understand that it would be wrong to ask them all to put their phones away and only rely on notebooks, but I don't want to be unfiar to those who are genuinely using their phones for the right… >>>

Gabriel Alvarez

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Motivating your students

I have found that when I share personal stories, pertaining that the field in which I teach in, really motivates my students. Being a chef instructor, I truely enjoy telling my students of both the victories and failures that I have experienced; it's almost like sharing war stories. They become very motivated when they begin to place themselves in my shoes, then we all discuss on what I could have done differently. Thoughts??? -Gabriel

Gabriel Alvarez

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Three things to consider when delivering a lesson...

When I started 3 years ago, I had a hard time coming up with ways of delivering the lesson at hand for my students. I would stick to the syllabus and teach all that was required for the day, but then hit a wall when I would start to talk about other things pertaining to the subject at hand; making them lose interest. I decided to go to my mentor and ask him for advice, one thing thing that he told me was to consider these three things before teaching a class: 1)What they should know 2)What they will know… >>>

Gabriel Alvarez

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Pride

I happen to have a student that is in a wheelchair, and this goes without saying, but he is slower than the rest of the class. When the rest of the students offer him help, he always refuses it, sometimes to the point where he becomes angry. Then when I offer him help, he almost seems to accept it because I am the instructor and then almost shuts down, as if feeling broken or not good enough. I really don't know how to approach him. -Gabriel Alvarez