We should never discuss our personal problems. This takes time away from the class

One way I reduce or have no cheating in my class is to walk around while they are testing.

One technique I use when i have an unmanaged student or talking student is to continue lecturing while walking to stand beside them causing them to quite talking

This is when I use all of my stategies and for the duaration of the term

to eliminate stress around you you must first eliminate stress from within. stress can cloud the mind and make it hard to think clearly and act rationaly.under stress you're producing many different chimicals opsetting the proper funtioning of the brain. understanding the process allows you to manage and filter your thoughts in order to analyse and rectify any possible outcome at the source of the problem.. the question is how well do we understand that process.

My policy is no cell phone use in class except for emergencies.How can an instructor deal with student that disregard the policy and consistently texting.

I find that if I don't know an answer to a student's question, I always say I will research and get back to you next class with the answer.

Because I teach in an urban setting, often times these students are argumentative like they are out in the streets. My solution is to have them remain after class and discuss their behavior and disatifactions in an adult manner where other students cannot hear.

I find that students in the younger age group of 18-21 have an attention span of about 15-20 minutes for lecture time. I then start group activities or other activities to get them to stay on task.

In order to earn the respect and be a role model for students, it is important to take good care of your physical health which will in turn reduce everyday stress. Healthy food preperation, time to eat, stay hydrated and exersize regulary will give someone the strength to stop smoking and drinking. When you begin to feel the results, its amazing how much the stress level dissipates.

Years ago I exercised a lot and it really helps the stress decrease. I had gotten out of the habit but intend to start right away. I used to love the early morning around 5:30 am just as the sun is coming up and walking either fast miles at about 8:20 pace or long days about 10 min miles. Either way the stress was reduced in my life, I can’t wait to start again.

My students are older and thus have families and othe situations that deem for them to leave early. What can i do to negate this?

I love the concept mentioned about learning students' names. I pride myself in learning and remembering all of my students' names. I tell the the first day of class that I will learn all of their names by the second week of class and I stick to it. For those names that are difficult to pronounce or faces that are difficult to remember, it almost becomes a game between us to see hoe long it will take me before I actually get it right. Usually the students are impressed at how quickly I learn the names; and it makes me seem more real and human when I can't remember a couple.

I like the idea of the cards allowing students a limited amount of comments/questions. Some of the discussions in my classes go on much longer than I plan because every student wants to share their opinion or example of a situation. This will not only help w/the center stage students in limiting their reponses, but also with staing on track and schedule.

I will definitely use the paper airplanes as an ice-breaker and group selection tool. I usually have a group term project and have either allowed the students to pick their groups (which does not always produce the best work) or have selected them myself randomly. I also allow them to select a team captain (again, this isn't always the most effective since sometimes there are more than one natural leaders), or selected the captain myself if nobody volunteers (again, not effective because if nobody wants to lead and they are thrown into a leadership role, results are not always positive). This activity allows the students to be involved in the group selection, have fun during the process, and get comfortable with each other in a new way. I will post on my results.

As an instructor at a military university and former military member (28 years), I've found that categorizing stress can help one cope. Regardless of the "institutional stressors" (suspenses, workplace conflicts, lack of technological advantages, etc...), remembering that no one is shooting at you and you'll be going home at the end of the day to your family helps bring things into perspective.

The ability to quickly prioritize tasks and duties relating to specific job responsibilities is something that all instructors/managers need to develop and improve throughout their careers. The challenge to this skill is when tasks are added to our workloads (from inside or outside of our management chain)that have been deemed of a higher priority than our current responsibilites. While frustrating, integrating these "new" taskings into our schedule must be accomplished and requires an even higher development of priortization skill sets.

I view my students as potential employees that I may hire one day. So I treat them and teach them using that thought as a guideline for how best to educate them on everything they need to know from my classes to perform well in their career. I find that it makes it easier to communicate with them and help locate their areas of success and areas of improvement.

What is the best way to deal with students working in groups who refuse to participate but expect to get equal credit of the groups grade?

What is a good way to get the students involved with hands on activities for classes that are more lectured based?