I think your comments are spot on. it is definitely a challenge to keep students inspired and motivated in the classroom every day. But it has everything to do with how motivated the instructor is. Poor preparation or lack of motivation is clearly evident to students and I do not see how some instructors do not correlate the two. I think we all have moments of stress and burnout but it's how we approach it and reinvent our class that makes you a truly active instrucotr. I hope each day that students leave my class feeling they have learned something… >>>

I believe all of the posts are very insightful. I think soft skills are the "hardest" to manage for any insructor. Not only in the classroom but in the office and personally. It is something I am aware of all the time. I believe that I have become better with my soft skills but is also the main priority of what i need to work on. I was not good with taking consructive criticism at all when I first started teaching but it is something I have worked on and become better with. I take everything so personally bdecause I… >>>