Stress is not a bad thing in of itself it is the way we cope with it that will determine the effect it has on our lives.

I find that when working with an office mate it helps to be well organized, therefore we both can find our material. Color coding binders, folders and office supplies work well also.

How does one cope with stress? This module have giving many guidelines to cope with stress. Each individual decide which is best for them.

I do agree that procrastenation is on of the drawbacks of time management. I think that as nursing instructors we have to always watch out for this it can really ruin an instructor's time management.

I do not create "buddies" with my students.

I usually walk around the room during a test. I will try to stand in the back of the room during a test. Does this work for anyone? I definitely do not do anything else during an exam.

I do find that they younger learners in my classes are the ones that are the "inattentive" students.

Students that are absent on the day that assignments are due must turn in that assignment the next time that they are in class. If they do not, they receive a "0".

A great idea is to redirect the focus.

I just thought I’d pose a question and my personal response to the topic of the severity of late work punishments and see what others thought on the matter. Is it more important to teach students the age old “deadline” concept by having harsh late grade punishments or is it better to have more lenient punishments that encourage students to still finish their assignments regardless of it being late? During my time as an instructor I have played with a few different approaches to the punishment of late work. At first I gave very harsh punishments. As an example I took half off for being late and zero’s for anything more than week late. I noticed that when the punishment was that harsh the student will simply give up and not even attempt to complete a late assignment as it will feel seemingly meaningless to them at that point. This changed, however, when I took from them only 10% per assignment regardless of how late it was with one restriction. Anything handed out before midterm was due by midterm or it was a zero and anything handed out after midterm was a zero if not turned in by the final. Usually this still encourages the students to finish the work and I have seen some really impressive work from students who were trying to make up for the 10% off they knew they were already getting. Being that the courses I teach are art related, all my grading deals with projects as opposed to papers and tests. Most of the projects are a prerequisite of skill sets that will be needed for the next assignment and so on. When the student misses one assignment it usually throws off the quality of their assignments the rest of the semester. If the late work punishment is mild, usually the student is more encouraged to finish their assignment and thus learn the material. With a harsh late grade policy you can pretty much guarantee the student will just accept the zero and move on, greatly decreasing their ability to learn the material. What do you guys think? I’ll make myself clear and say in no way am I suggesting the removal of late grade punishments, I’m just suggesting that I believe the ease of the punishments are directly related to the completion of late work. I personally find it more important overall to the student’s learning process that they finish all their work rather than reiterating the same harsh life lesson that they should have learned a thousand times before.

As the module stated "stress is between our goals and capabilities." It is true as an instructor that we have many goals to accomplish. We all know trying to accomplish these goals tends to stress most of us to the max. Knowing that these goals needs to be accomplished, the signs of stress is dismissed. We try to deal with it. I would like to do a survey on how many instructors who have high blood pressure? Do most of us just treat this with medication; or do we realize that the stressors we encounter as an instructor causes us to have high blood pressure and try to eliminate some of the stressors at work.

Everyone has there own style. Staying within the accepted boundaries, instructors should avoid the cookie cutter role and be themselves

The college where I teach has always had a computerized gradebook. Its very hard to imagine that a college do not have computerized gradebooks. Imagine if you have 26 students in you class and you have to break out your calculator to do the grades. Think about the time that it will take to this. As stated in the module "Using Technology modern technologhy can really help save time in teaching."

Preparation is key in class management.

Would it be more effective to reasses priority daily? In career schools, there is so many unknown elements that effect our time.

I have found that when students score bad on a quiz, that i stress a bit. the first thought is what did i do wrong? What do i do so that it doesn't happen again?

We have standardized lab sheets the students write answers on. This makes grading them labor intensive. I streamlined my work load by collating the sheets numerically before I grade them. This file system helps save time if I need to find one to review with a student.

I was teaching a keyboarding class and demonstrating how to center a table and it didn't work. I knew I had done it correctly but for some reason the table didn't center. My comment to the class was "Oooh, that is embarrasing. I know that is how it is done. Let's see what went wrong." We played with a few things and finally got it to work. (Computers can just be perverse sometimes.) As long as I was unconcerned and could laugh about it, the students took it in stride. I don't think it hurt my credibility with the students.

sizes of class struture can play a big part in the stressfullness of the class in geheral

I think using guest speakers is an ideal way to show students what lays ahead of some of them after college. It's kind of the light at the end of the tunnel strategy. They can see there is a goal waiting for them.