Students need to have input, they enjoy ineracting with other classmates. We as instructors always need to listen and respect our students and treat them as individuals
This module offered a lot of learning strategies for building on student empowerment-- factors such as: sharing the learning vision, courtesy, respect, rapport, feedback, and technology-- are all important and increases student's empowerment...
Always get the students involve in decision- making and instructors need to listen to students in order to increase involvement or engagement while building the foundation for empowerment
I get new students every 3 weeks. Day one establishes the entire 3 week session. An initial meet and greet works great for establishing info about the student that will enhance their overall course experience.
I use practice board exam questions with multiple answer choices and have the class work in groups of 3. Each team captain defends their answer choice if different from another groups.