The Instructor’s Kit Bag

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the world had to change the way it delivered education by adapting and implementing a myriad of changes. Listen in as five educators discuss how the pandemic negatively and positively affected their profession at Army Sustainment University (formerly Army Logistics University) as we continue the conversation in Part 2, discussing the benefits and drawbacks of converting to a distance learning classroom.

It’s safe to say the global pandemic has forever changed education. While many educators can list numerous examples of how the pandemic negatively impacted educational practices, many others recognized the pandemic made us more well-rounded teachers and developers? Listen in as five educators discuss how the pandemic negatively and positively affected their profession at Army Sustainment University (formerly Army Logistics University).

In this episode of Instructor’s Kit Bag, we dive into the second part of discussing the value of assessments and how to better develop them for our students and ourselves. Listen in as we go over the best practices of writing multiple-choice questions, structuring a progressive assessment, and setting the assessment up to continue the learning process.

Tests only measure what a student know, right? What if we told you that tests can be dynamic, be part of the learning process, and be built to help, not hurt, students? In the first part of this topic, we are going to run down the many types of assessments that can be administered. We will discuss what categories the Scholastic Assessment Test, the Virginia Standards of Learning, and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery fall under.

Having discussed Bloom’s taxonomy and the domains of learning in previous episodes, we arrive to the question: now what? In this episode of the Instructor’s Kit Bag, we have three perspectives to answer that question. Listen in as a teacher, a developer, and an instructor discuss how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy in building a lesson plan and how to adapt the Virginia Standards of Learning into utilizing the domains of learning.

Almost everyone recognizes Bloom's taxonomy and the use of the Cognitive Domain. But there are two other domains, the Affective and Psychomotor, which are extremely important in implementing in our lessons, courses, and assessments. Together, all three domains make up the head, the heart, and the hands of education. Listen in to review these two domains and their importance in learning development as a curriculum developer and teacher.

Most educators can recognize Dr. Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy as an important part of their field. But most may not know that there are varieties of this Taxonomy that include an old, a revised, a Cognitive, an Affective, and a Psychomotor version, only one of which was actually created by Bloom.

It is vitally important for teachers, schools, and education as a whole to get rid of two toxic phrases that build a mindset which ultimately squashes innovation and creativity. Unfortunately, too many people hide behind these crippling maxims- sometimes by choice and sometimes because they fall into it. Join Host Nate Ball of Army Sustainment University (formerly Army Logistics University) as he discusses what all educators need to remove from their educational environment.

In this episode we go over one of the most important aspects of teaching: credibility. What makes us credible instructors and how do we make sure we maintain our credibility?

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