Essays on Instructing

Introduction

The manual is meant to help trainees become competent facilitators of distance learning. It takes into account that none of the facilitators have experience in distance learning and therefore, will focus on all the aspects of distance learning.

Part 1: Vital Information in the Facilitator Training

Audience The program targets individuals already serving in the mentioned capacity of learning instructors. The instructors must also be successful traditional classroom instruction methods. Therefore, the trainees are expected to be knowledgeable in instruction methods, student assessment, course and curriculum design, adult learning among other learning and teaching aspects. Moreover, the trainees must have taught at a diploma or higher level. ...

INTRODUCTION

The 12 cranial nerves are olfactory nerve I, optic nerve II, oculomotor nerve III, trochlear nerve IV, trigeminal nerve V, abducens nerve VI, facial nerve VII, vestibulocochlear nerve VIII, glossopharyngeal nerve IX, vagus nerve X, spinal accessory nerve XI and hypoglossal nerve XII . Cranial nerves that transmit information from the brain to the eye are optic nerve, oculomotor nerve, trochlear nerve, trigeminal nerve, abducens nerve and facial nerve. The primary function of the cranial nerves in the eye is innervation of muscles in the eye, control of vision, controlling lateral and vertical movements of eyeball in the eye and ...

Cases of fraud usually take place in both huge firms as well as small firms, and in this case, we will focus on Mamtek, which was a small firm. There are various reasons that usually led to cases of fraud in the various firms. Most of the fraud cases usually involve manipulating the various stakeholders for personal gain. Such decisions to commit fraud are usually for personal gains or to achieve performance within short durations rather than following the right procedures which would bring positive results in the long run. Mamtek was a Hong Kong based manufacturing firm that ...

As a part of my learning service, I volunteered to teach English to some children whose parents had recently immigrated to the country. I handled four such children and learnt a lot through my interaction with the children and their parents for three months. First, I learnt some active listening skills. I had to be a careful listener to every word the children said so that I could understand them since they had come from a French-speaking nation and they could only speak very Basic English. I also learnt to be patient with children and adults as I waited ...

The management of chronic diabetes self-care programs is mainly the responsibility of the patient. In primary care, nurses normally emphasize the prevention of complications and adherence to diabetes self management regimes. However, compliance to diabetes self-care programs is always a challenge for many diabetes patients. Diabetes self-management programs require patients to make many lifestyle and dietary changes. Diabetes patients need to be highly motivated to adopt and conform to the lifestyle changes in diabetes self-care programs (Perry & Collins, 2009). This paper describes the process of implementing a protocol for motivational interviewing for diabetes patients at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas. ...