Make policies and stick to them. Students need expectations.

Change to Plan B when your lesson is not working out.

I like the 10/20/30 rule

Always be over prepared as a new instructor.

I intend to increase the Independent reflection requirements - I realize that I am in great need of more independent short knowledge checks for my students. I plan to implement short pop quizzes on the days after my live demonstrations either in Construction Tech or Manufacturing in order to solidify the content that they learned.  I believe this has been a missing ingredient from my teaching from this year.  I have seen more mistakes from students that have watched my demonstrations and yet do many of the things I specifically warned against.  I see this as the result of not… >>>

Starting with the end in mind and working towards completing the lesson plan works for me. 

Learning objectives help guide the lesson plans. 

Keep good lesson plans and keep them up to date. 

Planning is key, and making sure that you have wiggle room in your schedule for compression and/or questions. 

Lesson notes can help instructors stay organized and focused on key learning objectives during training.