A professional teacher leads students and colleagues by his or her example: One who is prepared for any difficulties and adversities inside and outside the classroom, one who acknowledges and rectifies and learns from mistakes; acknowledges the beauty of diversity (language, cultural barriers, socio-economic and personality differences) of students and colleagues. A professional teacher is prepared for these difficulties will be able to overcome them. Not by words, but by example.

It was once suggested to me, that if my adult students had trouble reading that the institution should teach reading. I answered that I believed that "that boat had sailed", and that additional reading instruction would probably not give us significantly improved readers. So I started looking for alternatives. I had noticed that in the Business Training environment there is an increased use of IPODs with training downloaded on them for employees. I have been trying to encourage my textbook folks to consider putting the textbooks into podcasts so that "poor readers" can have a vehicle to obtain the full breadth of the course information. I know that at one point most textbooks had an audio version for the visually challenged. All they would have to do is add graphics and video and the students would have another alternative. Have you heard of this being implemented? if so what were the results? can you direct me to a source?

The classroom is a reservoir of different students with different personality types, and daily issues. Some students come to class with a chip on their shoulders. These are the one if not too many challenges a teacher must deal with. From the very start, I emphasize communication as the one of the most important tool for success. Whether dealing with positive or negative conflict, or issues, I encourage students to openly communicate their concerns. For the first time, in my nth year of teaching, I received an email from a student with an address IHATEU.COM, I did communicate with this student and did try to ignore the email address that she created and focus on her goals and or issues. I discovered that the was undergoing a lot, and her plate was full. To top it all, she is dealing and coping with a loved ones' forthcoming death. His father has terminal illness and has six months to live. I realized that somehow, students really do not know how and who to direct their anger or hatred. That oftentimes, they are angry with LIFE itself. I tried to redirect her anger by asking her to change her term project topic to the Five Stages of Death.....and explained to her that she, too, is undergoing the same process of DENIAL, ANGER, BARGAINING, DEPRESSION...After she wrote her term project, she came to the ACCEPTANCE STAGE. I am still keeping her term project, and I asked her If I could share her beautiful and meaningful realization with other students who maybe are experiencing the same. With this experience, I was indeed blessed to be able to encourage students to communicate or open up their deepest feelings, (NO MATTER how negative it will be) to create an email of IHATEU.COM to be free from the bondage of anger and depression.and come to ACCEPT the truth of death.

Some of our courses are taken out of the suggested sequence and with other professors whose teaching style is very different from mine. I've noticed that a lot of the fundamentals are missing. I try to go back and cover those things but I notice that for others in the class, it becomes irritating to them to have to back track. Any suggestions?

Students as well as Instructors need to maintain professionalis,a t all times.

If you stay clam and collective it will help students behave appropriately

Most stuendts bring their issues and problems to school how can we prevet that

Beign in allied health sometime i find it difficult to keep our students very motivated.

I enjoy teaching students and I rarely feel affected by the "stresses" of class preparation & teaching. However, the core of my stress comes from the administration. I am a problem solver by nature, and I am getting stressed because the culture of the current administration is severely undermining the academic integrity of the institution, and there seems to be little I can do about it. Are there any realistic ways to deal with this? Honestly, I feel like the course information was a bit vague and unrealistic to implement into a real-world working environment.

It is very important to clarify the rules for late assignments on the very first day of class. I have always written these rules into the syllabus. I have this part stand out by having it listed as its own paragraph. I also put in bold, all caps: NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS! I then explain that if there are extenuating circumstances that they need to see me one-on-one. This sets the tone for what is required for the course, and better prepares them for the real world.

I always talk about what it means to be profession is. Because what might be my standars of professional to me might not be professional to them, we first start what with the understanding the word professional.

I make up three diffrent test. I always make sure that I answer all question before the test starts, I have a question and answer session.

buy using hands hands on method is a great way to get and keep students attention

For adult learner show examples are a easy way in helping an adult learner learn.

I have a real problem with students grading someone else's work especially quizzes or exams. I strongly feel that we need to keep the confidentiality of the students' grades. Having another student grade a peer's paper especially if the peer did poorly can have a huge effect on the peer's self-esteem. The peer may believe that the student grading their paper thinks they are incompetent or even dumb. Even though grading the papers myself may take time, I do it to maintain the confidence of my students. I have found several ways to make it quicker. One is to use an answer sheet where I only see the student's answers and not the questions. I then use the key to check it quickly. I have also used online tests, so the test software grades it for me. The students would receive their grades as soon as they say submit much like the quizzes in this training course.

Even if your coworker is the worst instructor never express this to the students. It can undermine the whole program.

I have learned to be on the lookout for this because they will use work from previous students. What I've done is change the assignment a bit so that whatever they got will not work for them.

As an instructor we need to respect sometimes that older students do expect a certain type of respect but make sure to let them know that it works both ways. They may be older but they need to respect the fact that they are there to learn from you.

We as instructors need to learn that not all students come from the same mind set as the average person does. When you have students that live by the "street code",you need to rethink your approach in how to instruct and deal with some of their inabilities. What works for the average will not and does not work for them.

I like the idea of using to do lists. I have been doing it for years. However, I have two to do lists: one for school and a different one for home. Then while I am at school, I am looking at only the tasks I need to do there. I am not tempted to focus on what I have to do at home that night. When I go home, I then look at the to do list for home and focus only on this list. I find this way I do not slip into a procrastination obstacle of "worrying about things that I cannot do now." If I look at home things at school, I am too likely going to be thinking about those tasks; many of which I cannot do at school anyways. I then take valuable time away from the tasks I could be doing at school