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Deborah Polynice
Deborah Polynice

Managing Angry Students

It is best de-esculate the problem by acknowledging that the student is upset and by listening to that student. Ask the student how you can help them.
RoQuanda Guy
RoQuanda Guy

Managing the classroom

New instructors sometimes are more worried about students liking them. New instructors are unsure how to control the classroom. Or they are afraid to disciple the students because they don’t want students to complain. The Instructors role is to set the tone for the entire class. Instructors need to manage the materials, the class flow and the students. Classroom management is a skill that needs to be learned.
Sharon Rogers
Sharon Rogers

Inattentive Students

An evaluation must be done and reviewing your lecture material to determine if it is too difficult or too easy should be one of the 1st things attempted. Look inward and ask yourself if you are presenting the material in a positive and interesting way. It is important that you challenge the student. It is crucial that you haev planned your lecture and be prepared. Another alternative is to engage the student by breaking the class up into work groups. This allows for students to interact and give opportunities for brainstorming.
Deborah Polynice
Deborah Polynice

Center Stage

I like for students to have fun during the learning process. It becomes a problem when students constantly jokes around in class.
RoQuanda Guy
RoQuanda Guy

Angry students

Students that are always angry usually have more underline issues beyond the classroom. As an instructor, I believe we should give students an opportunity to voice their opinions. I like the ides of having students write their complaints on paper. This method keeps the instructor and the student focus on the problem at hand. I also don’t like to discuss problem with the entire class, because it becomes a complaint session and nothing usually get slove.
Sharon Rogers
Sharon Rogers

Student Monitoring

There are many advantages for monitoring students. It can create a positive learning environment. It also allows the student the awarenness of what is going on within the classroom and with themselves as individuals. There is an opportunity to reinforces positive student behavior.
Deborah Polynice
Deborah Polynice

Syllabus Steps

It is important to thoroughly go over the syllabus in the beginning of a class because students need to know from the instructor's perspective what is being communicated from the written form.
RoQuanda Guy
RoQuanda Guy

Motivating students

I believe that the words that come out of instructor’s mouth to a student can motivate them or break them break. Regardless if a student is an A student or an F student our goal is to motivate everyone across the finishing line. As human, we all want praises. To keep the class exciting, guest speakers are great suggestions.
RoQuanda Guy
RoQuanda Guy

Empowering students

I think it is the instructors’ responsibility to empower his or her students through class activities. Instructors set the tone for the entire classroom. Students would be encouraged to learn in different ways. Also, instructors should add real life situations to the lecture. By during these things, students would be more engaged with the lecture and the material covered will stick with them.
Thomas Kosta
Thomas Kosta

Building Confidence In Yourself

If you are not confident in you ablilities to teach you can have a very difficult time in gaining the students respect and desire to learn from you. You would not be the teacher if you were not qualified. Understand that and you will be a successful teacher.
Thomas Kosta
Thomas Kosta

Managing Students

Just as there are different learning and teaching styles there are even more personalities to deal with. In order to reach all of the students you have to be able to adapt with these. This may seem like an undaunting and sometimes impossable task but it is not really that difficult. I love the challange of changing "hats" to meet the requirements of all my students.
Thomas Kosta
Thomas Kosta

Student Focus

In order to keep the students focused, the course can not be presented in a boring manner.A change of pace, a challenge, or student participation are just some of the ways this can be accompished. When some new and different information is presented the students will be anxious and focus on the topics coming to them.
Thomas Kosta
Thomas Kosta

Student Success

In order to have successful students you have to be a successful. instructor. To this you have be very versitile and be able to change teaching styles to accommodate a large variety of learning styles.It is not always easy but if you are aware of this fact it can be done and the rewards can not be measured by anything but pride!
Mark Cahill
Mark Cahill

Every Opportunity to Succeed

When I address a new class, and go over the expectations of the students, I make it perfectly clear that with effort and discipline my class is designed to give the student "every opportunity to succeed". This includes making myself readily available to students outside of the scheduled class, extra credit assignments and other grade boosting alternatives.
Mark Clink
Mark Clink

re writing curriculum can be stressfull

We are rewriting curriculum for a new couse which is stress full because we have a dead line to meet.We have found a quite place with no distactions seems to help.
Gena Lora
Gena Lora CHEP

Instructor anxiety

Having a feeling of anxiety is not always a bad thing for instructors. It pushes us to prepare to alleviate these feelings. If after preparation we still feel uneasy, than maybe we are just putting to much pressure on ourselves.
Gena Lora
Gena Lora CHEP

Challanging students

The best way to deal with challenging student is to interact closely with them. Sometimes they are just looking for attention and for someone to care about the. Of course one student should not take all of an instructors attention, but some need it more than others.
Gena Lora
Gena Lora CHEP

unfocused students

Unfocused students can disrupt the whole synergy of a class. This type of student may need different means to learn and stay focused. Just lecture will put anyone to sleep and make it seem as if they are lacking focus. Sometimes students have outside issues that keep them from concentrating as well.
Chastity Cirilo
Chastity Cirilo

Common Instructor Mistakes

As a new instructor, this section was very useful at quelling many of my first time jitters.
Chastity Cirilo
Chastity Cirilo

Dealing with Difficult Students

This was a very helpful section of the course. I truly believe that adult students are bit more challenging since they are at various stages in their lives.