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During the first day of the term, the syllabus will be read, a set of class expectations will be introduced and this will help get the students acclimatized to a fast pace environment. During the first week and after the students have a well-structured idea of the class, short term and long term goals will be identified allowing the student to start experiencing success from the very first term, which will help them build confidence for the next set of terms. Some important components that have been  proven to be successful  for the development of goal setting are… >>>

Because our field of education is unique, based on the fact that our student population is so diverse (not just in age, but knowledge base and learning styles differ greatley), creating learning teams that don't result in "clicks" is key. Seperating the students who sit together and/or around each other and moving students who sit in the back to the front and the one's who sit in the front to the back - has resulted in positive results. Of course you will have the few who resist and I don't feed into the situation - eventually they come along -… >>>

I strongly recommend the use of the course syllabus. Everyone learns and remembers at their own pace and will have the syllabus to refer back to when needed. It will also let the student know exactly what they can expect from the class and the instructor.

I believe in setting rules and expectations for the very beginning of class, and also give updates on class grades at the end of each week.        

An instructor needs to have strong expectations and procedures.  I have seen classrooms where there were strong expectations and procedures and things still get out of hand because the concequences for broken rules were not strong enough for the situation. 

1- Turn in required paperworks on timely manner.

2- Update grades daily 

3- Keep students informed about their grades and progess in class.

4- Keep your licenses active and turn in CEUs annually.

5- Stay positive, calm and love what you are doing.

class room managing is an ongoing evaluation of you as an instructor. i believe that some classes need different managing styles in order to maintain a good productivity. People respond to different styles for better or for worse. i sometimes see myself as a little bit of the three styles. i feel that apathetic is not a style but a poor excuse for being lazy.

The issue with non verbal is we don't see ourselves through their eyes, so we don't understand their point of view. I think sometimes we can gain valuable information from students as to what our body language says about our teaching style. A student is very sensitive to your non verbal traits much like a pause with a "daddy" eye stare. I think that as an instructor you must be able to balance your verbal and non verbal skills.

Not only does one need knowledge and experience in the field, it is essential to manage the classroom well at all times.

This class is good to evaluate your own performance as instructor. It allowes me to reflect and correct my actions and attitudes toward the students.

Keeping the student exited will let the student want to learn

This course really helped me to understand some of my students. I teach at a career college where students have to often save up for months/years to attend. There are no scholarships or financial aid federally so you would think that would be motivation enough to perform well. I see these quiet students, cheating students, uninvolved students daily and I think to myself, "Why are they not involved after paying all that money?"  After this course I realize I need to provide more engaging curriculum that will involve more.

I found this course challenging! Though I found that some of the things being taught here I am already implementing, there are still many interesting matters that I find very useful. I certainly am already contemplating how I can utilize these in my simulation classes for the benefit of the students and their maximal learning.

Go into class with the mind set of helping students learn and not becoming their best friend.

I am going to apply a lot of the things that I have learned in this course, there is one in mind, thatI have some students that are really very quite and don't het invlove in the class room, I will start to make small projects and make small groups of discussion and try to make every one give his take, and by doing that i am interested to see how it works

This learning module was helpful with student retention. As educators we need to have a better understanding of the students. We also need to be able to keep the focus of the students.

Crystal Gaines MSN

I absolutely like this course. I learned so much from it and I will implement right away things that I can do to manage stress in my professional and personal life. Thank you for for this wonderful course.

This is an invaluable course for me! I learned so many things here which I intend to use at the early possible time in my simulation classes.

I like to put at least one "center stage" student in each group and also have an "inattentive" student in each group.

Roger