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

     In my 20 plus years of computing, networking and infomation security I have learned that this the field of study I wanted to embrace.  During my span of conducting training to either students, subordinates, peers and superiors I have come to learn that in order for the learner to embrace what I am teaching I have to accomplish three things.

1.  Build their interest in the topic I am trying to instruct

2.  Make it enjoyable and personnal to them.  They have to see the return on investment to absorb the knowledge completely

3.  Recognize that not every type… >>>

What great information, enjoyed the course

The nonverbal Communication is a big thing in my instruction classes.  This course points out some very valuable information that will be extremely important to impliment in my class room. 

Any suggestions for those Generation Y Students that continue to challenge you as an instructor by questioning you constantly?

I use To Do lists regularly.  I used to keep a pad of paper specifically for it, but have since moved to my Samsung tablet.  It really helps me to focus my time more effectively, especially when my attentions are often being drawn in several different directions.

My real world knowledge in my career field has definitley helped me translate my knowledge to my students as it relates to my curriculum and courses of study

Best practicew that works for me,and the students warm up well. I tell them the four hours we are in class  we are a family. It seems to work well with my shy students they talk more.

The pargraphes that follow are stories that I find myself telling students on a regular basis. I decided to document these so that I could include them as part of my profile so that students could learn about me and about what they are learning about at the same time. One advantage of the process was the clarifying of thought that putting an experience down on paper gave me. 

My first record was a gold record called "Australian my Homeland" it was a promotional record for Luxaflex and they ordered a 100,000 units. I was an assistant engineer and… >>>

The best way to manage students that I have found is to be assertive, consistent, effectively listen to students, and always be kind.

The strategies discussed in the course refreshed my thinking about how to sustain interest on the topic matter.

Classroom management and management of student conduct are skills that teachers acquire and hone over time through experience and knowledge

 Ater going through the first three modules I realized that some of my NV cues while teaching in the clinical setting should be rendered. I tend to get frustrsted (ans I am sure it shows!) with the students that are unorganized, and lacking good time management skills.  I tend to be more relaxed with the students who are on task and prepared for their sessions.