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Managing a class

This makes sure you get what needs to be done completed.

Angry behavior

Sometimes one students behavior can change the whole classes behavior.

Give encouragement to students

Sometimes just saying good job can motivate the student.

Define your requirements&expectations

Make sure the student understands how to achieve a high grade, and what can lower thier grade.

Capturing a student attention

When there is a talkative student in my class, when I am giving a lecture or asking for class participation, I just walk over by that student and stand there for a few seconds; then I walk around the whole class so it did not look I intentionally pick that student out.

Stress

The things that I cannot control are the things that give me the most stress

Stress has allows you to focused on helping you to understand your unique strengths and weaknesses in the way you manage stress.

Making more time

Students remember better when they have to write than what they hear and/or see on paper/books.

Taking control of your time

I believe that we all control everything in our lives and how we manage our time .It took me years finally figure out my own system but it is really true .

The Road to Stress Free Living

I think that it is important to have a stress free life because stress can be detrimental to our health. We must have some kind of plan in place to help us cope with daily stress. Stress can be a factor in every area of our lives so therefore we must take control of stress before it take control of us.

Stress From Being Micromanaged

What do you do about stress from feeling like you are being micromanaged about every aspect of your course? Being watched all of the time stresses me especially when the people watching all of the time make mistakes and tell you that you are not doing something correctly and you really are, or tell you that you are not doing something that they did not tell you that you needed to do.

Getting buy in from students

Even though I know what I'm looking for, I allways get the students to participate on decisions making...

Not Enough Minutes in the Day

By the time I finish with my five classes, four preps, grading papers, working with students, taking care of my six year old, and everything else that comes my way during any given workday, I am exhausted My to-do-list is crammed with priority 1 events. I don't seem to have enough energy or time to deal with everything in my job and my life.

Methods to reduce cheating in a full class

In my class there isn't an empty seat in the room and instructors don't have the freedom to create their own exams or have alternating "A" and "B" exams to keep wandering eyes on their own papers. Besides zero scores and monitoring for unusual behavior indicative of cheating, what techniques can prove useful given the above scenario?

Coping with Stress

Sometimes when I'm stressed i do tend to eat more than usual. Lots of chocolate! Which is sooo unhealthy. It causes you to gain weight for 1 and the sugar from the chocolate causes me to feel very hyper but when that sugar is gone I crash. Well I use to! i have found other ways to channel my stres and 1 way is walking/exercising.

Stress Reliever

I like to take at least a 2 mile walk by myself to just free my mind of all the negative energy and things that have caused some tension on my brain (causing a headache). Listening to whatever wildlife that's around is soothing as well while I'm walking.

Clutter

I can not work efficiently and effectively with lots of clutter on my desk. It has to be neat and clean so I can find whatever I need when i need it.

Stress

I do my best not to get stressed in my working environment. It does cause long-term health issues. I wanna live a lobg prosperous life so, stress is not my friend! ;o)

Studying after the fact

Students have a tendency to study for the test instead of studying to learn the information. They will cram for a quiz/test and then immediately lose all of the information at the moment they turn it in. This turns an assessment of progress into an assessment of short-term memory. One solution I've found is to schedule time in class for the students to "convince" me that their answer makes sense. They put more effort into studying their books this way. They want to know where the answers are. This actually works as a time saver for me, since it reduces the amount of in-class review time I need per quarter for my cumulative finals.

Mirrors

They say necessity is the mother of invention. I developed a to-do list accidently. Years ago, I started keeping track of what money my roommates owed me from month to month. To make sure we all knew, I started writing it on the bathroom mirror with a dry-erase marker. Soon we were leaving each other notes like "Went to see a movie, be back at 6pm." Then it became a running list for food shopping. Now, even though I live alone, I still use that technique to keep myself organized. It's much easier to lose a sticky note than it is to lose the whole bathroom! Now I just need a mirror on my desk at work...