Keep the classroom enviroment exciting. Let them know what its truly like out in the feild. The topic we discuss in the classroom they will take to the feild and apply what they learned. I talk about the money they can make. The skys the limit.

When you are an instructor managing your class you are, like a manager in the work world, always dealing with intrinsic and extrinsic student/worker challenges. The big issue is successfuly dealing with all of the Diversity issues that exist in your class all at the same time. It is sort-of-like beign in three or four places at one time. A possible solution is to over prepair and then go with the flow.

Are students more easily motivated by having early classesor later class who knows what is the best learning time is. What are some of the stress problems assocaited with early classes or late classes?

some time you have to teach students in the class to be on time. Its an issue within the the students. need to tell them how inportant it is to be in class on time.

some students have financial burdens and must work harder in order to support their family

We get all types of students age,disabilities. We have to adjust to there needs. We need teach to the class thats in front of us at that time.

I have very rarely had difficulty in understanding how someonelse learns. Yet on one particular occasion, I was completely at a loss. I had a student who could not visualize any action or movement, she physically had to see a finished product. This is sometimes easy when everyone in the class produces the exact same, but when each team has a different course or meal it can be trying. I worked with her, drew diagrams, even sketched 38 images for her to no avail. While walking through a fleamarket I found a text book from the 50's, even though the pictures were not really upto date they were applicable to the class. I bought it for a whopping $2, and in class I gave it to her with the understanding that I thought it might help her visualize what she was to accomplish. The next class session, she was exstatic and in the trenches with the other students. She was so appreciative, but I still don't know exactly what I did. I admitted that we all see things differently, and that I wasn't sue how she saw te world but that another textbook may be helpful. And in this case it was the fix to a very difficult situation.

In the intro to the first module it mentions how many high school students were "coddled" during their time in HS. It then goes on to explain that that is not how career college classes should treat them. However, having taught for over 12 years, I find sometimes in a Career College setting that many students come in with a strong attitude of entitlement. I've even gotten the "I'm the customer, so I deserve a better grade" argument in the past. This gets coupled sometimes with an administrative undercurrent of "make the student's happy" due to pressures over maintaining retention numbers. I guess I often feel stuck between a rock and a hard place regarding balancing between making sure the student is accountable to the level they must to be successful in the chosen field; and keeping some "entitled" students happy so as to not have to find myself on the wrong side retention issues. How does one walk that fine line when sometimes the thing that the student is demanding is that coddling?

Even the best instructor can be guilty of saying this. Even if you say... we are going to get throug (plow though / knock out) Chapter 5 today. The message this sends to learners? "This information is not importaint... we just need to get through it!" Try to banish this term from your vocab! Are YOU guilty of this? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ? (I know I am, sometimes!)

Reinforcement increases an awareness taht an instructor truely cares about the success of the student.

Building Rapport with students not only increases their retention but also the students will also share current trends and new cooking techniques

The instructor should engage in continaual learnig to staty up to date on current topics and to stay in touch with current happenings and trends. This will engage the students to be active as well.

Understanding the student needs is important to keep an enviroment that is productive to their learning behaviors

Learners need reinforcment, they also need enforcment.

retention is a part of the learning process over looked as important.

When my battery needs a boost,I try to remeber what it was like for me in school and how important it is to be an example.

Motivation is more important in the first few days to establish the mode.

tell lively true stories of your past job exp. be lively move around. change your voice tone or pitch. ask for there exp in the topic or subject.try to pump them up with intersting points of info.

you should use as many props cutaways as you can. talk about your experience on the job and subject. so pictures movies demonstrate tasks ask for assistance with show and tell. ask for there stories or experiances.

i feel there is a connection between the student and the instructor. or there should be. the student needs to know that you are aware of him and his needs and wants.you do not need to be a dictator all the time but still be able to maintaine disapline. if they need help along the way help point them in the right direction if you can.