Exercising and eating right can improve self confidence, which can in turn reduce stress.

Stress can be caused by a variety of factors. However, there are many ways to contain or limit stress. One way that I manage stress is exercising. Exercising is a healthy way to reduce stress.

An instructor should review several practice questions from different resources (i.e. publishers and other instructors) as guidelines to help said instructor develop his or her own questions to his or her own style.

Those who procrastinate are actually creating stress for themselves. Instead of procrastinating, an instructor should organize all tasks in order of importance and urgency, which will in turn reduce the stress of worrying about projects that are due.

Try saying hello and asking how they are doing on a regular basis to get them out of their shell.

Every class has that one student who wants to be the center of attention. Put them in charge of something so they feel important, hand out papers, etc.

It is important for students to know where they should be at the end of the course.

I see the stress caused by each environment and how type of stress is unique to its environment but what happens when those environments are not separate? I teach online, so my work environment is my home environment and vice versa. While I do not think I am overly stressed, what happens if I do become stressed? How do I separate the two or is there a special way that those who work from home have to approach stress?

I used to be a slight procrastinator. It was never bad enough that I didn't get my work done or was up all hours trying to finish on time; it was just that sometimes I would put tasks off that I knew I could be doing. Well, I recently had a baby (she's 2 1/2 months old now) and now I face the obstacle of immediacy. I try to finish everything all at once because I don't want to run out of time. I teach online and stay at home with my daughter. We are just now, in the last week or so, establishing a pattern or schedule of sorts but before that I never knew when she would be sleep or fussy so whenever she did sleep I would power grade or try to cram as many tasks in as I could during that time. I think I'm going to try list-making and see if that helps me pace myself better. Any other suggestions for my situation? All are welcome!

At the start of evry course I am a strong believer that ALL expections should be reveled. I feel if everything is put out there , there can be no misconceptions of ANYTHING that is expected from the course.

Aside from instructing in the massage program, I am also a full time massage therapist at a local spa. My job is to reduce the stress that we all often deal with. Honestly, my suggestion for stress relief is to simply get a massage! They help

I absolutely love my job, however, when that job is a lot and then a second job and a full time school schedule is added to it, things get a little stressful

In our school the adjunct instructors all share the same space pretty much. Some of the instructors carry all of their materials with them. I have noticed that the people we work with are all very respectful of eachother, and if someone sees something that doesn't belong to them, they don't mess with it. Common curtesy goes a long way.

I used to struggle with time management in the past, and honestly still do sometimes when caught up in work. My students, some more than others, tend to struggle with this concept quite a bit. I am thinking of a way to get them to become more aware of their time and what they do with it. Maybe this will help them to see where their time is best spent when keeping their future in mind.

Student not applying self Not attending class or being prepared when she attends. Her grade goal is a C

I agree that it is not best to announce to the class that you are teaching for the first time. Just like in the field, never tell your patient that this is the first time doing a procedure. This will make the patient uncomfortable and not have trust in you.

I caught a student cheating on his midterm exam by having information written on his forearm. I confronted him, gave him a zero for the exam grade, wrote him up, and he has to turn in a 2 page paper on the information he was cheating on. He admitted he cheated and that he made a mistake. It is not always fun to deal with these situations, but I feel it is necessary.

I like the idea of handing out colored cards to each student to allow them to ask that many questions during the class. Sometimes I think students like to ask questions to get the instructor off track.

I have found it to be very helpful to inform my class on the first day the penalty for late assignments and examinations. I post on the student's portal an extra document dealing with these issues and what situations will allow the student to make up an examination.

People that are supposes to be roll modals are not because they want their students to be their friends.