We all have dealt with holidays and other reasons for time lost during a term. How can we adjust to still cover all the material without overwhelming the students?

What are some techniques you can use to keep yourself in a professional stand point and remain outside of friendship with the students.

List the steps needed to deal with angry students upon entering the class. Be sure to include what to do if disruption becomes a problem with student learning as a whole.

Explain the role of the syllabus in reflection over the different types of students (center-stage, inattentive, apple polishers, etc.)

Even though we are instructor we still continue to learn as we teach.

All ways use the same rules for all students

All ways keep your students learning and active in the class at all times

This will help students in their future

What are some important factors to keep in mind when you want you're students to take away at least certain key points of your syllabus? Additionally, what are some ways to allow the students to take careful notice of these factors?

Would love to know how others alleviate their stress. My top three stress relievers are: 1) Exercise 2) Hot shower 3) Enjoying my morning coffee or an evening glass of wine outside on my deck.

WHAT IS CONSIDERED A COMPELLING REASON FOR A STUDENT TO HAND IN LATE ASSIGNMENTS?

Would you say making a large compiled to do list is more effective than having a daily planner where you can break tasks down by day and due date? My preference is a daily planner because I feel one large list might be more overwhelming. I'd like to know other's opinion on that.

What a valuable tool! It is amazing how such a subtle response to a difficult student can yield such drastic results. When words sometime fail, simple proximity can work great. Walking next to their desk, flashing a smile while lecturing has been very useful for me. But, what about the student who doesn't care? The rare student who continues to talk, text, etc? In the adult learning realm what do you do with extreme behavior? Send them to the principal? This is a dilemna that I have fortunately not run into yet, but have wondered about for awhile. Any thoughts on serious behavior issues?

How would you suggest dealing with students who are already working in their field of study and have the attitude that they know more than the instructor or that school is a waste of their time because they aren't learning anything new?

When I am feeling stressed I put myself in a 15-30 min. time out.

I wish that they would sit in or teach a class for one day to see how ineffective some of these standards are.

The best Idea I have gotten thus far was a was to do essay questions. I am not a fan of essay question but this is a good idea.

does anyone else agree that even when you set timelines students seem to need more and more..

I am fairly new to teaching and have a tendency to let my students slide on late assignments because they work full time jobs. They work some weekends and all different kinds of shifts so I try to schedule assignments for when I think they would have the most time to do them. But they have other classes also, not just mine. Would anyone have any advice for how to be more strict as far as assignment deadlines without being the stern instructor nobody likes?

I completed one of the other MaxKnowledge courses which discussed technology in the classroom -- better get used to it, use it, embrace it, because it's no going away. So instead of saying "I don't know; I'll look it up at the break and get back to you," which is what I've done in the past, I said, "I don't know -- let's look it up." On my surveys, I got blasted, "Why are we paying all this money for a teacher who tells us to look things up for ourselves?" So clearly this was not the right implementation of the idea behind the course. What is the right implementation? I don't know. Maybe it depends on the type of career college. It clearly backfired on me due to the way I implemented the idea. I'm not sure how often the MK courses are updated, but it should be a continuous process based on feedback from those who have taken the course. The discussion forums are great, but what about course feedback?