I feel that it is important to be able to relate to your students, but a professional relationship needs to be maintained. It is also important to present yourself as a professional, but able to be approachable so students feel safe to learn and ask questions.

Students are going to take the opportunity to cheat if it is given to them, and they may not see any harm in cheating, but ultimately the person who does the cheating is hurting themselves. Students will not learn to be productive members of society if they cheat. All attempts to prevent cheating should be made in the management of your classroom.

Often, I have seen students that like to toot their own horn, and while they may have a great understanding of the material, others in the class may not have the same level of comprehension. I like that the course wants to make the student the observer, and I think it is important for that student to see other students in the role that the instructor sees them, and that may help the center stage student develop the skills to be a helpful member of the class, and a more valuable member of any office setting.

I feel that as an instructor, your expectations of your class need to be clear and easily understood. I have taken classes where the expectations of the class dis not follow along with the lessons in the syllabus. If the point of the class is to learn a certain topic, and the instructors skip over key points of the topic, it makes it that much more difficult for a student to understand the whole topic. Jamie Barnes