Allison, You have captured the essence of instructor improvement with your statement about using your students as your source for developing and refining your instructional style. I wish other instructors would be as observant about developing and refining their instructional style as you are. Instructors must develop a method of feedback and evaluation that will enable them to gather and process the student feedback that they are receiving. Students will give feedback one way or another and if we are not meeting their needs, then the feedback will be negative and the class effectiveness will be lost. This is unfortunate since all we had to do was listen to the real message they were sending us. Congratulations for a job well done. The other observation that you shared is that of recognizing that each class has its' own personality. So often instructors try to teach with a “one size” fits all mentally and this simply will not work as you well know. The end result most often is frustration on the part of both the instructor and the students. Thank you for you insight about instructional improvement. Gary