I teach math, and one of the challenges I have is to get students that have a fear of the subject to actually try!  There is a real fear that prevents them from putting pencil to paper.  I as an teacher have to somehow get the students beyond those fears and it can be tough!  

I believe in the clinic especially life expiences should be shared. I will often share with students what they will encounter in the woking world. They often will respond or ask questions based on what they have encountered in life experiences. 

Why are the Maxknowledge classes just lecture and testing instead different kinds of learning styles?

Dose reinforcement really need to appeal to why they are learning?

If you wear down during a course, shoud you stat to look at the couse and see if it is still relevant?

Adult learners often bring extensive life experiences to the class room. Do you feel that this my hinder them do to being set in there ways?

Excellent educational tool for students in underdeveloped countries.

Give a student a free pencil, coloring book, or a notepad (to name a few) and it will greatly encourage education, study habits and support/involment from parents.

Pencil/notepad - Some students don't even have writing tools. A pencil/notepad encourages student desire to write, draw, etc.

Parents - Parents will support student as they see them receiving things that they don't have to purchase or that they never received when attending school.

Believe it or not..... this sometimes applies to adults students in these countries.

Thanks

One of  my  favorite "projects" is in  my Pathology class.  It always falls around Halloween and I allow my students to choose a pathological condition  to do an oral presentation on, but the representation muct be a food item, after which we all get to EAT....  love those sebaceous cysts cream cheese danishes. I don't assign the "condition" or the food item. It is the most popular assignment in  the massage program at the college I teach and after taking this  course I believe the autonomy of the assignment enhances it's success.

Instructor enthisiasm is very important. However, the instructor must also practice self-care in order to provide and maintain a positive learning enviroment. There are times that instructors need encouragement and they need to feel valued.

Does anyone have suggestions regarding instructors'  self-care and how instructors can encourage themselves when needed?  I can sure use that advise right now.

This class was helpful and gave some key points.

This class is very informative in new ideas to help build up your students as well as retention of students. Great course

I am now 34 and I am always looking for new knowledge. I know that I am in the health care field and I will always learn, but does it Ever get boring??! I love it!!!

1.   Disorienting dilemma
2. Self-examination
3. Sense of alienation
4. Relating discontent to others
5. Explaining options of new behavior
6. Building confidence in new ways
7. Planning a course of action
8. Knowledge to implement plans
9. Experimenting with new roles
10. Reintegration.

The list  of Transformative perspective  theory explained by  mezirow

I found this topic to be interested. As a student, we do have an advantage when attending post-secoddary institutions. We absolutely want to get our money's worth. We can be very demanding of our services because we know we are paying a great deal of money to  attend school. We also look at our return on investment, we expect to find a job that will provide us with a liveable salary, when we struggle to find this, we can hold these colleges accountable for failing to asssist us with job placements or with specific lack of preparation for a certain skill. Rarely do we hold ourselves accountable for what we put in, but we hold some resentment to what we did not get during our post-secondary experience, even if we did not seek the service, we feel some sort of entitlement to these services being all provided to us. 

Well i enjoy asking individual questions to several students on the same subject through out the class that way the students are alert and aware they might be asked @ any point during the class time a question about the objective just to keep them on there feet and understanding of the subject

I often find satisfaction and fulfillment when I give back to my students. I believe, "To Learn, To Teach, To Love, and To Recreate."

It's all in reciprocating the life experiences to the next generation. However, I also find I learn much by allowing student driven learning activities in a condusive learning environment. Students find more fun in those types of classes versus me constantly talking or lecturing.

Students often do not wish to share their personal history.  In this course, it states that it is essential for you, the instructor, to know their backgrounds and life experiences when dealing with diversity.  Although it sounds good, it does not seem  to be a practical approach.

i feel adult learners are great students because they are much more motivaed to  learn and accomplish their tasks at hand

How can you help a student who is being encouraged to quit by a student she is involved with romantically.

Colleagues, 

I have recntly expereinced a student who stated that had she taken this class under someone that she liked then she would have been successful. She is a repeat student who failed again this term. My question is, how often do we as faculty remind the students that this learning experience is a two way street. We stress that when content is missed that it is the student's responsibility to contact us and/or another student for review of the content and any information that may have been missed. In addition to this, this student attended tutoring but did not aks any questions. She stated that she was afraid of getting her head bitten off if she asked, however, her other class  mates, showed no such fears. I digress to ask can you touch on how to address students that state that their learning is the responsibility of the  instructor and does not take ownership of their learning?

Thank you for you time and responses.