When I am stressed, I stretch my muscles. Not only does it feel good but, it helps reduce my stress. I also talk with my supervisor when I am stressed about a class of students.

Through the years, I have had to learn how to eliminate stress. When I began my teaching career everything seemed to stress me out: a student's failure, an unprofessional comment from a coworker, etc. With time, I have had to learn to take a step back and really evaluate the importance of what it is I am stressed about. If the stressor did not effect my professional or personal life, I began to devalue the "stressor." I now understand that every student will not be successful, and I don't have to be friends with all of my colleagues - this has helped with my overall stress management immensely.

A few things that I have done in the classroom to help adult learners... If I noticed that some were uninterested or even falling asleep, I walk around the class and have more of a topic discussion than lecture or take a break from lecture and start lab for participation,to have them up and moving about.

One of the things I find most helpful is that I keep a small pocket size notebook with me at all times. This helps with listing my tasks on the to-do list and making corrections as they are needed.

One thing that stresses me out is when adult students talk while you or another student are talking or lecturing. Teaching in any way, shape, or form is stressful. I get up every day and say to myself that I am going to have a good day.I always try to be prepared. In fact, I am usually over prepared. This helps my stress level.

Keep things organized,keep students busy with tasks.Keep a positive attitude!and be HAPPY!!

just have to know when to turn it on and off.

we just have to take a deep breath and remember why we are here

i teach my students about honesty. i have them help me by grading(of course i check them) fellow students papers. they have to use a red pen and write the correct answer, comes in handly for studing for that exam. also it makes it easy for me to get the grades on the spread sheet in a timely manner.

Professionally you should maintain consistency.

sometimes we get too much on our plates. nice to make a list. get the tough stuff done first then work your way down

This is my favorite part of teaching, I feel that a huge portion of me being a teacher/Life Coach is constantly collecting new classroom activites to foster learning. Students love this, :-D especially if it's related to the material, their class and if they see it will help them excell in their future career. One of my favorites in Psychology class is to provide a quick workshop on Personality Inventories, split the class into four main categories and provide discussion questions like: What style do I best get along with, most struggle with? What can I do to better relate to each? How will this help me as a _______ (future career). -They LOVE this! Does anyone else have any great tools they utilize to make class a better learning experience? 8-.

I have found that when you plan really well for a topic, you find that you actually have more material than you need. The "say-do-watch" approach works in my environment, where the instructor says/lectures "briefly" about a topic, then does/demonstrates it so that students can see how it works, then watches the students duplicate the demonstration to satisfy the kinethetic part of the learning process. This not only takes up time, but also allows the students to quickly realize what they have learned. Using this approach to lesson planning can help with lessening instructor anxiety.

My question is this, what if a student comes straight out and says he is furious with his girl friend. That his anger really has nothing to do with the class, but he is very angry?

My biggest classroom management issue concerns students who text. I usually have one or two each term who love to text and are fairly oblivious, even to specific, individual requests to "cease and desist". This term I'm going to tell students -- in a humorous way hopefully -- that their participation points for each class are going to include behaving like technological dinosaurs (like their instructor) and NOT texting in class. A texting incident is going to result in a point lost for that class. Then I think I'll e mail the texting student immediately after class about their loss of a point so they get an immediate consequence. I hope this will be effective, and I'm thinking that the use of humor will make it sting a bit less. Any other ideas about the nemesis that is texting?

I have a couple of classes in our program (Computer System Specialist) that students can't seem to link to the importance or relevance of the material to the course description. Any feedback would be very much appreciated.

Being prepared and ready for class sounds simple but it makes a big difference in how students see you. I could not stand professors who were disorganized, sloppy or unprepared, even if they knew their material. It made me feel as if they didn't care and were trying to be charming to compensate. Now that I teach, I make sure that I am always prepared and ready. Whether I like it or not, I am a role model and need to set a standard of professionalism for my students.

I thought that this module was helpful but it did not mention the problem student who is bound and determined to be your best friend. They show up early for class, they stay late and they ply you with endless compliments and questions. At first it is flattering to have their support but after a while it gets tiresome; in addition, the other student tend to resent (if not despise) "Paul the Pal" as a brownnoser. How do you tone them down without alienating them?

I have not be teaching very long and need some advice: what can you do with frustrating students, particularly students who can't seem to get their work done on time. I email all of my students who miss a deadline and then try to talk to them--I either get no response or empty promises. Any "tricks of the trade" some nice person might want to share with me?

I have found it helpful to invite quest speakers to class to share their real-world experiences with my students. It is very important to select good speakers and it is also helpful to give them a "tips" sheet covering specific topics that I know my students will be interested in knowing. Q&A sessions are also very useful although I am occasionally surprised at what students will ask!