I have one student that just doesnt show and when he does he skips out and doesnt stay involved at all?

as a new instructor it is hard at times to instill confidence in your students, to assure them that you have a knowledge base to help them with their needs... my question is how can i be better at conveying confidence????

i was wondering if i suspect a student of cheating, should i have them take the test by themselves in a private area, so i can keep an eye on them? or maybe i should review my tests???

Students will respond best to an instructor who demonstrates enthusiasm for their own profession.

we give our students different copies of the same to test to avoid their ability to cheat from a neighbor.

one way to ensure students are paying attention and staying on task is to implement a clicker system in the classroom where students will be required to participate by answering questions during the course of the lecture. This becomes part of a participation grade and also motivates them to pay attention to potential exam questions for the future.

What do you think would be the best way to link field experience with what they are going to do in the classroom on the first day of a class so the students do not feel overwhelmed or feel as though they can not do the task?

Every teacher feels a degree of stress –- it comes with the job.It needs to be reduced to manageable levels before it has a negative affect on your health and well-being.

When a stressed teacher reaches the stage where their stress impacts negatively on their performance, a programme of stress management is often recommended.

My school is very small, I haven't space for my things. I need to move my books, quiz,pencils, pens,etc inside to the big handbag, this is terrible. What I can do?

Is very important to do list to control all our activitiess. Each Monday I do the list and prioritize my tasks. Every day I check the list and rewrite it, if is necesary. For me is a excelent method the control strees

to do exercises is a good way to eliminate stress

Stress is a barrier for good communication. and we should neve make decision when we are under stress.

It is always good to check the teaching material before we use it to prepare the lecture. and we should in contact with the publisher for updates.

Setting priorities has two basic elements they are Urgent and important and the fact is. that we dont take into account this two elements but we prioritaize according to our desires.

One major stress factor in my life is having too many jobs. While there are some full time positions available in career colleges, many of the instructors are adjunct. We work part time and have no benefits or job security. However, we are still responsible for providing an excellent education experience for students at our schools. Adjuncts rarely make enough money to work just one job, so most supplement their income by working at multiple schools. Working at 3 schools is hard to manage, with all the different policies, passwords, colleagues, etc. This course is providing some excellent ideas for dealing with this so far (I am definitely going to organize my computer folders!). Does anyone have any suggestions we haven't seen here so far?

Hi everyone, I enjoyed learning about some ways to save time as an instructor. One thing that came to mind as I read about re-using materials is that textbooks change so often, making it difficult to re-use the same PowerPoints, lesson plans, etc even if you are teaching the same course. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so, how have you dealt with it in the most time-saving way possible?

I have to say remebering students names happen to be the most difficult especially when I'm getting flooded with questions. I try to address that by putting students in groups and then give names to each groups and it helps me to at least link their name to the group names.

Are there any other tools that can be used to help silent students get out of their shell?

Breaking up larger groups into smaller groups is a great way to get students to "gel" together especially for the first semester.