By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When you think about your weekly facilitation duties, do you feel prepared or do you experience anxiety? Adjunct instructors understand the…
The Mentor Is In
The use of meaningful feedback is an important tool for instructors as it is directly related to the adult's development as a learner. Instructors assess assignments and…
When instructors consider the most important aspects of classroom facilitation they often think about requirements that involve the majority of their time and effort, from planning learning…
Students have an understanding that when they attend a class they will be expected to perform some type of work to receive a grade. Classroom performance often…
There’s a difference for instructors between getting along with students and finding a way to work with them throughout the duration of the class. Instructors who develop…
As an instructor, what does it mean to be a good listener? Is it about the actions taken when responding to a learner’s message? When an adult…
This is a companion to my last post about classroom maintenence. In this post, I want to segue from maintaining our physical environment, to maintaining our health. Crafting…
In my teaching philosophy, the student is embedded within a context, an environment, that can either help or hinder learning. Today I want to talk about an…
The question, dear Horatio, is how often do you change your course material? Textbooks come out with new editions seemingly every year (or bi-annually at the very…
One of my little tricks of the trade is to get my students moving. I sprinkle activities throughout my course design that makes them get out of…
