Patricia Scales

Hello Susan, I love your recall assigment. You get me excited just from reading your response. I can imagine the excitement your students get from this assignment by having it live. Great work, Susan! Continue to use strategies to help your students recall information. Patricia

Hi Susan, You're welcome! It is absolutely important to know how to utilize various resources so that you can see things for yourself and not take someone else's word. Seeing is believing! Patricia

Hello John, You're certainly welcome. I've enjoyed conversing with you. You've shed light on various areas. Patricia

Hi John, You're welcome! You will love it. It is so efficient and effective! Patricia

Hello Robert, Trying putting those explanations as to how the course will fit into their career plans and information about daily living into a PowerPoint presentation. Sudents love to be able to see it as well as hear it. You will get an entire different interest level and excitement. Patricia

Hi Laura, You are on point! I don't blame you. It is no gray in your policy. Students like to play the card, "I did not know." They can't use this excuse in your class, and I love it! Continue to prepare students for the real world...I do not know is lame and played out. Employers will not tolerate it. Patricia

Hi Beth, You have it. These same problems will be in place many years from today. It's just a different era, but the problems remain identical. Patricia

Hi William, Wow, you get me excited about Accounting based on the way you share things with your students! I have heard the very same things from my Accounting Instructors. My aaccounting Instructors have great PowerPoint Presentations to talk about everything you have listed in your response. Great response! Patricia

Hi George, I've experienced students utilizing software on the job where they have made different features work and use incorrect technolgy, and they think they know all there is to know about the course whenever they take it. Students generally find out that they made things work and used incorrect terminology, and now they are learning it the correct way. As the instructor, you have to convince them that you are teaching them the right way. It can be challenging. Patricia

Hello Michelle, Nicely responded to. I feel as though it is very important to thoroughly read through the syllabus. As you've stated, we can not leave reading through the syllabus as the students responsibility; they are simply not going to do it or read it fully. Excitement is a trickle down effect. I can tell you allow it to trickle from you to your students. :-) Patricia