The only way to do something right and do it well is to first do it poorly.  Learning from mistakes and failures will only make us better.  

Listening is key to understanding challenging students.  

It's important to not allow one or a few students to dominate class discussion.  I also learned strategies for reducing student behaviors such as late work, disengaged, etc.

It's important that your course is outlined and structured via your syllabus so that students know the expectations up front.  Students are more engaged when you can connect what they're learning to real-world practices.  Ice-breakers are good for getting students engaged with an assignment, especially group work.

As an instructor, you will improve each time yopu teach the same course.  It's a good idea to make notes where improvements can be made throughout your lesson plan to better prepare for the next time.

Being prepared and overpreparing would be a technique that I would employ. It's better to have too much material then to be scrambling to fill empty time. Also, I currently get bounced around between different groups of students at times, and that makes it difficult to remember names. 

As an instructor, it is important to lay the foundation of your expectations at the start of the course so students know what is expected.  Within each class there will be a diverse group of students and it is important to be fair and not give preferential treatment to certain ones.

I learned there is a transition for young students that recently graduated from high school and starting a program as an adult.  They have more responsible to hold themselves at a higher standard for self motivation and growth compared to what they were used to in the past. 

I learned how valuable the syllabus is to set the expectations for the course so it must be well thought out when it is put together.

How to be  mindful, and exercises to decrease stress