Nathan Dunavant

Nathan Dunavant CHEP

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Just a heads up, if you allow soda bottles in class watch out for the labels, I've seen students pull off the label, scan to a computer program and type in a cheat sheet where the ingredients and nutritional facts are. Makes you wonder why they don't put this effort in to studying huh?

Nathan Dunavant CHEP

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Exclusively Male?

Under the section "Strategies" this topic states that the angry student will be almost exclusively male, I found this to be the exact opposite. Maybe this is because I come off as intimidating to male students, maybe this is the nature of my industry and those types of people it attracts but, my position is one that deals with problem students that get out of their instructors control I can say definitively that 95%+ of what I consider angry students are female. "(the pronoun "him" is being used here because hostile and angry students will almost exclusively be male)."

Nathan Dunavant CHEP

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Every Student Every Day

I try to keep all of my students engaged by making personal connections with every student, every day. At the beginning of class we do a "line up" at which point I speak to the students on a "how are you today" basis, these daily discussions evolve as i get to know the students and can help with problematic students by adding an element of personal expectations. Once the students know that I truly care about their personal lives and that I am truly willing to assist in any way possible to help them be successful they develop a sense… >>>

Nathan Dunavant CHEP

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Heavy Bag

The best 80 bucks I've ever spent is that which bought a heavy bag to work out my tension on. A ten minute session hitting the heavy bag is a GREAT workout and an incredible stress relief.