Managing the Class & Students

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Claudia Roach

Teaching a "canned" curriculum with tests included

I have to use prepared materials and tests whether I like them or not, and many of them are good at assessing what my students have learned in some aspects. Because I have to do things in ways I do not always think are good, it has become a challenge for me to overcome. I do that by adding to what I have to do with what I like to do. Even though it means more work, it helps my stress because I know that students are learning what they need, rather then what the main office thinks they need.

Courtney Bliznik

Keeping Students Moving

It is important to keep students focussed and not hung up on something that has nothing to do with the subject matter.

Courtney Bliznik

When a Student Isn't Attending

It is important for an instructor to get involved and stay communicating with a student who isn't attending class.

Courtney Bliznik

Guest Speakers

Guest Speakers should come from actual departments that students will be applying to when they graduate is important so they can see that there are actual people doing the jobs they are stdying for.

Courtney Bliznik

Class Work Should Meet Hands On Projects

It is important to get students involved in class but hands-on should reflect what they are being taught.

Pascale Thomas

classroom discipline

I have to say this one of the most useful class I've ever had. I was able to identify my "style" of classroom management. One thing for sure is that I will work on the proactive techniques in order to minimize discipline problems and to start using the "I" language. very helpful class.

Roger Riebsam CHEP

First day

When i have a new group of students, who are just getting to their electives, i like to refresh their knowledge of the class rule and procedures. i find this helps with some confusion that some students have

Aaron Thurmond

New instructor worries

As an experience instructor my greatest worries are not that I can instuct my class, but that at the end of the course, Iask myself did I teach my students enough to move on to the next challenge.

Aaron Thurmond

Making the hard Call

Students know my expectations from day 1. They know that I am there to teach them and they are there to learn. Each student have the rights and responsibility to learn and let there classmates learn. Class disruption is not allow in my classroom. Verbal counseling comes first, then written and then removal. This is my way for good order and discipline.

Aaron Thurmond

Challenging Students

Since no students are alike, I deal with each student's challenge differently. One of the most important steps I consider is the student's age. Age can assist in identifying student's life experience. I sometimes find myself talking to my younger students as similar to the ways I talk to my adult children.

Aaron Thurmond

Day One

As an instructor it is always inportant to learn who your students are. The first day of class I tell the student about my personnal history which includes were i'm from, my educational background and most important my experience on the subject matter. each student then gives a short bio of themselves. A syllabus and calender is then given to each student and we discuss the course and the expectations for passing the course,

kulsoom shaikh

TALKING PERSONAL LIFE

Some time talking about the personal life if it is part of career may motivate the students, sharing your experience will help the students to understand field they will work

kulsoom shaikh

Always late comer

I don't know but when i start teaching i face this situation some studnets are always late in class and they expect to repeat the lecture and they want A grade in exam. uff very difficulte

Georgia Leary

Eliminating Stress

making a stressors list and plan to revisit this list as a part of your weekly todo list

Dennis Kaplan

Good advice, specifically, and in general...

I found this section to be helpful, no matter your profession. In the 1970's, I was a NYC taxi driver (has to be THE most stressful job in the universe!); in the 1980's I was a fraud investigator for an international bank; since the early 1990's, I have been a college instructor. All of these jobs are stressfull--life is stressful! Tackling stress is essential to well-being, and being able to identify the stress, and the stressors in your life are the keys.