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Dustin Parulis
Dustin Parulis

Age and Ethic Diversity

It took me a term or so to try and balance the diversity at school. It is an interesting thing to see when all different ages and races come together and work together for the same goals.
Michelle Callaghan
Michelle Callaghan

focus

I Love the the new ideas that keep the classroom fresh. I love the REFOCUS and the games that can be played. I will share this with my faculty at our next meeting tomorrow so they can also benefit from this.I will ask them to implement 1 gamne each week until they have expanded their ideas on their lesson plans. Michelle callaghan
Michelle Callaghan
Michelle Callaghan

Strategiesfor Instructors

Lots of ideas come from the interner to keep students motivated, especially adult learners. The u tube videos of teachers teaching from berkeley , stanford and many other top ranking colleges are helpful to see how passionate a teacher can be to engage students.
Michelle Callaghan
Michelle Callaghan

The adult learner

Adult learners are nervous in comparision to peers due to age. I see it in my classroom often. They feel they have been out of school to long & cant learn as quick, they need a lot of reinforcement and support to get over this learning curve. Once they do they feel accomplished and it builds their confidence. Michelle Callaghan
freddie westbrook
freddie westbrook

movtivating your students

if in fact that you are a true INSTRUCTOR you should be at the top of your GAME. AND COME TO WORK WITH YOUR GAME FACE ON EVERYDAY.TO ME THAT'S MOTOVATION ENOUGH.
freddie westbrook
freddie westbrook

keeping your focus on the students

by focusing on all of your students,you will learn how better to help them.
freddie westbrook
freddie westbrook

understanding student characteristics

by understanding your students, you get a fill or a good repore, with them, so you can help them better, at what they are trying to learn.
Jennifer Burrell
Jennifer Burrell

Advising Self-Directed Individuals

One of the reflection questions asked if everyone benifts from an academic advisor. I think that everyone can benift from an academic advisor, but advising methodoligies should be tailored to the student. Some self-directed individuals may find advising methods used on non-self directed indiduals to be annoying. It is important to acknowledge the students' self direction and offer additional insite so that they will see the value in having an advisor.
Tracy Rue
Tracy Rue

Motivation for instructors

The best I can do at this point is to make sure my Education Manager is given all my notes on this training, this will provide for her to better train them or move them forward.
Julian Darwin
Julian Darwin

many years of teaching

I have taught for many years and after reviewing this section of ED 102 Student retention, I was reminded of my challenges when first starting and how I tried to control the class thinking that student challenges were aimed at me personally. Now after this last section of the course, I'm now looking from the experienced instructor point of view, I see where I may have become too focused on refining of the class materials. I really enjoyed the section entitled the reins of control.
Tracy Rue
Tracy Rue

ReCharge

As I am a Registrar I need to know how to recharge my instructors?
Tracy Rue
Tracy Rue

The Human Factor

This carries over into every asspect of the educational process. We continue the Human Factor in the Student Services office by treating every student with care and being fair to his or her problem.
Tracy Rue
Tracy Rue

Working with Student Characteristics.

I am a Registrar and see the ups and downs everyday. My problem is more along the lines of how do I keep my instructors motivated to keep working with the more difficult students. The ones that you almost have to "spoon feed" or "babysit"?
Nikolas James
Nikolas James

Nonverbal Cues

Some personalities are more adept than others at a given stage of development at recognizing these, and their inherent usefulness when consciously and skillfully employed. I vividly remember them even better in retrospect as used by my most talented teachers, and am glad to now be able to revisit them in my mind though only intuitively perceived at first. Thanks.
Katrina McClain
Katrina McClain

Students as customers

I agree with the thought of students as customers regardless of how we reword it or paraphrase it takes away from their responsibility of their own learning. I have found that with my students they depend on me doing more giving than them researching and taking ownership.
Patricia Young
Patricia Young

Effective Motivation Techniques

Using personal stories about one's career has an impact on students. Show students that I once sat where they now sit. I have the content and experience to share with them. I have found that you must be flexible and willing to adapt to the needs of each adult learner and focus on individual.
Patricia Young
Patricia Young

Why is the development of rapport with students important in teaching?

The student needs to trust the instructor. If they don't understand something, they need to know they can count on the instructor for help. I try for the first two days of class to identify my student by name and to learn something personal about them. I in turn tell them something personal about me. We start a rapport between student and instructor that has been working for me for 19 years.
Patricia Young
Patricia Young

Instructor Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is very important and to teach what you love with a passion. Knowing that when I go into the classroom I must have a good attitude and lots of energy. The class usually feeds from my energy. The students then want to participate and are excited about the class, then having effects on retention.
Krista Miller
Krista Miller

Student Retention involving past circumstances

How do you deal with a situation where students have come from two different classes, with two different instructors during a previous term, who have now been joined together into the next term with a common instructor? These students are of various ages, various levels of instructors due different instructors....it is now obvious in class that they are split on instructional levels as well as social levels.
Ryan Shepard
Ryan Shepard

Classroom environment

I have personally noticed that classroom environment is a key to success. I have been instructing the same 2 classes now for 1 year, and this last term I have had better classes meaning grades and attitudes. The room I was in was small and cramped due to the number of students and equipment/lab space. This last term I had more students but a room that was 2 times the size and a separate lab space. As for myself, I have had a more positive out look on the class and I have seen how this change increased the level of learning.