It is crucial for the students to practice good attendance so that they have this positive habit as they enter the working field.

I utilize outlook for the TO DO list, I find it to be more efficient since I don't have to re-write everytime I revise the TO DO list. Any insight or tricks that could improve efficiency on Outlook?

Silly as it may sound sometimes just getting ou by your self and opening your mouth and PRETENDING to scream will really ease stress. MMCRN

we must be example for our students in order for the guidance of our students to be effective.

as instructors it is important to be organized and look professional. We must practice what we teach or we are not true teachers.

when managing a discusion with angrey students i think that you should listen and explain to the student about respecting one another and how not to voice an opinion in anger but to voice it in a humble and calm way so the opion can best be heard an understood.

i find when you work with good team members they help lower the stress........

Being a new instructor i think that you should set back an observe your class get to know all personalities. this teaches you how to interact with student and there different personalities and use some of the same techniques that i just read about. i realy liked the rule using the five blue paper and take one every time a student interrupt the class. i will use that technique.

I truly belive that we all have an ability to deal with challengs if we as teacher's would sometimes just stop and listen to the student. I find that most of the time the student's just need to vent.

I have been teaching at a College/University for more than six years. I have had to deal with both the angry student and the cheating student. I will have to say that the students are getting more creative and bold when it comes to the cheating. I had a student who became so angry at me when I asked her to stop performing a skill. I requested that she step back, watch the other students, and reread the information on the steps of the skill. I guess I should let you know I teaching allied health students. She became so angry, and upset at me, so I asked her to come out in the hall to talk. She was angry because I embarrassed her in front of her fellow students. I explained to her that the only way I could check her off and pass her on the skill was to make sure she knew how to perform it from beginning to end. She then stated that she was quitting school. I told her I thought that was a bit extreme and before she quit maybe she should go and talk with the program chair. She did what I suggested and then came back apologized and asked if she could return to class. What I found out from the student was that she was upset and angry before she came to class. So the lesson I learned was that this was misdirected anger and attempting to work the situation out was not going to work. So what I did to diffuse the situation and the student was to allow her to leave the physical space and talk with someone who was neutral. This has worked for me in more than one situation. The only thing is that you have to have support from the administration for it to work. The cheating has happen relatively seldom in my class or I just have not noticed. I have learned that the fellow students will give up the cheating student, because they have studied and worked so hard to be prepared. This then makes the other students in the class very angry. In one of my current classes I have a student that others "student" have stated cheats in classes. I plan on sitting in the back of the classroom for the entire testing period so this cannot happen, or if it does I will be able to confront the student or students.

Field trips are always a good idea has they give students a real perspective of their future career s

To deal with a disruptiive student you need to deal with them indiviually and attack the issue head on

challengimg students turn out to be very rewarding

students will use the instructo for direction so it is imporatant to lead by example

I will have my superivisor as a student in my Phlebotomy class next semester. We are friends and I know I have to seperate my personal relationship with her for the class. I know I can do this on a professional level but I am open to any suggestions that will help me with my upcomming semester.

I believe that time management is something we all have a bit of an issue with from time to time. A little patienece and understanding from both sides is needed.

Years ago, as an online student, I used to write down all the excuses students gave when not completing their homework. When I graduated, I always joked I had enough to embroider me a bath towel. Now, as an online instructor I sometimes feel like Colonel Blake on MASH dealing with all of Clinger’s excuses and deaths in his family. I used to keep track of all the excuses students gave me, and try to follow up. This quickly became an impossible task. However, there has to be a best practice for dealing with the multiple excuse students give for not submitting their homework. The best one I ever received for a student not submitting her online assignment, “my dog ate my homework”. When I reminded the student she should use her back up plan, then she could have still submitted her work, she laughed at me as said, that was my back up plan. My puppy ate my Flash Drive and I keep all my homework on that flash drive. I had to then remind her to never store her work in just one location. The back-up plan is to prevent late assignments, and when you don’t have double locations, you don’t have a back-up plan. By the way, my excuse towel could easily be an excuse California King Blanket. What suggestions, thoughts or ideas can you share on student excuses for not doing their work?

How do you deal with a vulgar student in a classroom, either online or in a traditional classroom? In one of my online classes I had a very vulgar student. Asking the student to read the student code of conduct did not work. She came to class unhappy, after a fight with her boyfriend and she took it out on me and everyone else in the online class. In a matter of just a few moments, she threw the “F” bomb into our online seminar. I was mortified; I had never had a student treat me or her classmates in such a manner. If I asked her a question, she would retaliate; if I ignored her she would complain that I was ignoring her. I was in a no-win situation. I was able to call my supervisor and ask her to join in on my session and help me corral the student, however, even the added attention from her made the student lash out.

I am sorry to be so "anal", but when people misspell words, don't use the proper tense and poor grammar and pucuation, I have to take more time reading it. Please do others the favor of writing in proper grammar, etc. to save them time. Thanks