most important part of a first impression is having everything ready the first time you meet the class.

looking for good ways to keep "ADD" students engaged and concentrating in class these type tend to bounce from 1 subject to another and forget about the rest of the class

i am new to instructing and find the homework dosen't match the syllabus example, teaching basic engines and the students are doing homework on engine R+R wouldn't it be best to have the syllabus follow the homework ex. teach baby engines and have the homework be on basic engine theory?

being very new and teaching evenings I find it gets difficult to keep the students attention after they are working all day and have to attend the class at night for 4 hours