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Ten Examples of Problems and
Challenges:
- Student Activities and Engagement:
- How can you achieve the aim of keeping students on task?
- Class Demographics:
- How can you reach everyone in the class with equal effectiveness?
- Misconceptions:
- How can you rectify and student's incorrect perceptions and invalid
presumptions?
- Expectations:
- How can you inform students about your expectations and standards,
and meet theirs?
- Assessing Learning:
- What approaches can best determine the knowledge acquired by students
in your class?
- How can you recognize improvements attributable to changes in you
teaching?
- Choice of Class Contents and Materials:
- What criteria can determine your selection of resources?
- How can you decide what is critical to include and what can be
omitted from the class?
- Critical Thinking:
- How can you help students to think critically?
- How can your enhance and reward understanding of concepts, rather
than rote memorization?
- What types of assignments can best address this concern?
- Limiting Logistics:
- How can you minimize the logistical constraints that may affect
learning?
- Possible logistical limiatations include:
- size (large/small), level (introductory/advanced), course timing
(fall/spring), assistance (AI/no AI), technology (on-line, web used,
projection facilities), (major/non-major), grading assignments (exam
feedback)
- Problem Solving:
- How can you emphasize the application of acquired skills in assignments?
- How can you ensure student's familiarity with jargon and technical
terminology without it detracting from their comprehension of broader
concepts?
- Practical Skills and Training:
- How can you ensure that student acquire practical skills where
they are a vital component of the course objectives?
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