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Using Center Stage Students to your Advantage...

I like to use the students that tend to be over zealous in class and use them to my advantage, by helping them lead smaller groups, and working with other students that may not be getting the material. By keeping watch over these students, gets the center stage students feeling like they are helping out, and also gets the students they are helping, much needed attention and gets the groups discussing more.

Quality over Quantity

How strict are you, when dealing with projects about details of their work? In regards to grammar and spelling, and overall quality of work.

Stress

Elimination of stress will allow the instuctor to be more productive and responsive to the students.

Time Management

To manage your time is an important part of your job a an instructor

Multiple Choice

A quick way to evaluate a students knowledge is by way of a multiple choice exam.

student cheating

What efforts do you suggest once you see a prospective cheater?

the talkative student

as agreed with the content of the course, I have one student that is dominant and very smart. I have limited her to the number of times she can participate in class each session.

Introduction speech

How do you break the ice with students on first day?

Setting guidelines

How do you help students understand what happens when they cheat?

Relating to student

How do you separate student from group without embarassing them?

Managing troubled students

How do you manage the one bad apple?

Students that do not follow school dress code

The campus where I work has established a class room dress code. The purpose of the dress code is to establish a "professionnal persona". I had the occaision this semester where a student clearly was not in proper attire. This particular student likes to test boundaries. How would you address a student that "bends the rules" without causing friction with the student?

Labor Relations Group Engagement

One of the items on my syllabus for my labor relations class is to have them work in groups to research, present and discuss current events in the industry. So far so good.

Organition as stress Reliever.

can proper planning truly help to aliveating stress?

Stress in Relation to health.

How do avoid becoming stress counselors and remain instructors?

Realating Class Experience

Relating class experience, to real life experience to better help studenta in the workforce

Realistic Deadlines

Should students have to make an outline of their projects and turn them in prior to deadline?

Setting the Rules

It's very important to set your management style the first day of class. A properly prepared syllabus should detail the course expectations as well as the expectations of the students from you and you from them.

Stress Coping

I have used many of the course concepts, coping skills, in my life which has made a tremendous difference in my relatively stress free life now.

"Stressed Out"

The examples of stress and the identification and management of stress has proved to be such a positive movement in my life. I no longer "sweat the small stuff". Stress has been eliminated from my life's events.