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C1: Introduction to the Online Workshop
Introduction
What characteristic does a nurse and
a real estate agent have in common?
How many new terms are found in a college
course?
What are the symptoms that reveal a student
is not learning the new terms when they are introduced in a college
course?
What are the effects of students not learning
the new terms in their courses?
What will I learn upon completing this online
workshop?
What characteristic does a nurse and a real estate
agent have in common?
The characteristic a real estate agent and nurse have
in common is that they both possess the ability and the habit of learning
the unique terms found in their profession. Also, they can recognize
examples of the terms used in their professions. In order to become successful
as a real estate agent or a nurse, the large number of terms used in
each of these professions must be learned and examples of them recognized.
Click for examples of the terms used
in nursing and real estate.
All professions have unique vocabulary terms. What you
must do as an instructor is to communicate to your students the importance
of learning the all new terms introduced in your course and recognize
examples of them. If this is not done, your students will not be able
to learn the new information that you will be introducing in your course.
In preparing lesson plans, writing instructional objectives
and constructing tests, it is important that learning the new terms introduced
in the course and recognizing examples of them is emphasized.
How many new terms are found in a college course?
Most instructors and most students are not aware of the
large number of new terms introduced in introductory college courses.
If a student takes five classes that have an average of
twenty new terms introduced in each chapter and the instructors cover
one chapter a week, the student has one hundred new terms
that must be learned in one week!
In some courses there are more than twenty new terms and
more than one chapter introduced each week. Many times a student has
more new terms to learn in an introductory course than in an introductory
course in a foreign language!
One measure of the difficulty of a college course is the
number of new terms that must be learned.
 
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