Keeping manners alive in the educational institute.
One of my biggest problems with up and coming college students is the lack of courtesy and manners that is running rampant in our society. I feel like this lacking has started at home and the parents of today are no longer requiring manners to be enforced in homes or even in public. This really bothers me because kids are being shown that there is no distinction between casual exchanges and business exchanges. Vocabulary is poor, grammar is horrible. No one is taught to revere your elders or respect them. There is no yes ma'am or yes sir. Common courtesy has lost its place in our modern society. I feel it is our place as educators to continue the responsibility of helping teach adults and young adults appropriate business behavior.
It is hard sometimes to find the fine line between humor in class and maintaining discipline. Also, I agree that vocabulary and grammar are poor. Even in our music classes we have them do a few essays to practice. I not only grade or grammar, but I make them retype their papers with my corrections, just for practice. They actually seem to appreciate that.
Hi Carmelita,
This has been taken care of.
Patricia Scales
Patrica,
Sorry, I lost my program before I could take my final. Can you send my core to my email address? I need to take the final for ed 104
Thank You
Hi Carmelita,
Great idea! The students would love this activity. This activity would serve as a great learning tool for students.
Patricia Scales
This problem also concerns me. At my college we try to instill professionalism, however, too many of the students act like we don't know what we are talking about.I only have the students for three day for orientation and I can only plant seeds.I am thinking
of maybe making a short video with students actors doing the do and the don't. Then have the students
discuss which of the people in the video would they and what was it about them that made them want to hire them?
Hi Dawn,
I agree! I was brought up to have great manners, and I have brought my girls up the same way. People tell me all the time that my girls have so much manners. My girls know that they are to respect everyone. Manners use to mean something. To my girls and I, manners still mean something.
Patricia Scales
