Opening class with a joke or something light-hearted is helpful to set a fun tone for the class.

How to accommodate the varying needs of students coming from different backgrounds and with different life experiences. This will be a very large hurdle to overcome in a classroom at a university like ECPI. There will be a lot more diversity than in a traditional setting. Using the student's backgrounds as a starting point for discussion will be helpful.

I really like the problem based delivery option and want to try that for physics, but I am not sure that the student level is appropriate at ECPI.

How better to run the first class meeting and have students know what they are doing and where they are going.

Having a checklist of tasks that need to be completed and keeping a notepad with me to remember what I say I will do during class.

The most engaging this I learned was to be genuinely excited about my teaching area. Looking back at my previous instructors this was the one thing that made the biggest difference in my interest level in the class.