Eden Ayala

Always take the time to care for yourself, get enough sleep.

Is very important to understand when you are stressed and to identify stressors in your life. Try to focus on things that you can change or control and do your best on things you can't.

The use of on-line discussion to answer questions is a great way to get the responds out quick but also to prevent you from having to answer the same question multiple times.

To do list are a great way to keep your tasks moving forward. Prioritizing and assigning numerical values to each task will also ensure that you focus and complete the most important tasks first.

Prepared with at least double the content you hope to deliver. That way you always have material to cover in case the assignments go by too fast. Make notes of mistake you may have made in order to avoid repeating it. 

Make sure to follow your school's policy for cheating students, document everything and always try to help the student by explaining policies listening to their side and making good decisions. 

Noted the ice breaker exercise mentioned, using the matching answer test using industry tools will work well for the HVAC classes. 

By going through the syllabus in detail the first day you give the students a clear picture of what they can expect from the course as well as from you as the instructor.  Set clear deadlines to stick to and display them in a calendar using reminders as the dates approaches. 

Plan ahead and decide what you are most interested in testing for in order to apply the correct testing format.

In order to give students more tools to be successful in carrier growth we should evaluate their level of critical thinking and problem solving in order to adjust the teaching technique and reach those students that my not see the importance in soft skills.