This module mentioned many ways to help student feel supprted and engaged. This information can be very useful in lesson planning when working with different age group, it is a good idea to be flexible.

Try implimenting all various types in your lesson plan!

I tend to have very diverse classrooms, and it's sometimes hard to understand the best way to Motivate everyone in the classroom. How can I develop this skill in order to give my students everything they need?

I teach software packages in the majority of my classes. I find that sometimes when dealing with refocusing my efforts, I must make changes to the course itself in order to give my students the best understanding of those packages. Is it okay to change the flow of the course to match the pace of the students at this point, or is that a bad thing?

I often find myself engaged in fun conversations with some of my students. I usually have small class sizes so I often gain inside jokes with many of the students. However, the majority of my students are younger, and often they get to the point where the fun becomes disruptive to the actual lecture being presented. What is the best way to refocus a class, without completely cutting off the lightheartedness and good vibes gained up to that point?

As a new adjunct instructor I was given three classes to teach my first semester. Although I was a bit overwhelmed, I was confident that I could handle the workload. Unfortunately my first day teaching one of my classes was pretty rough. I had a tough time getting used to demonstrating a software skill. The first day ended a little badly, but one older student in particular felt like my being there was somehow cheating him out of his education. He wrote letters to the administration to that effect, and it caused a great deal of trouble for me and my supervisor. I was unprepared for such a backlash, and I was entirely embarrassed. Later, having been paired with another instructor for the remainder of the course, did I discover that he was a known troublemaker amongst the entire teaching staff, and would often pull off stunts like this when he didn't get his way. I want to provide a great learning environment for all of my students. However, I am quite young and I feel my age may have caused some resentment from this older student. How could I better handle a student who doesn't seem to respect you due to them being older than you?

While some people motivation is a job that brings to them a lifestyle of monatary rewards they find fullfilling, then you have people who are not as motivated by the monatary rewards but by the internal pleasure they get from the the pride of their education and status it brings.

The personal barriers that an adult learner encounters can be the most difficult to work with, identify and overcome. Because we are adults our experiences have shaped and molded us to the point that our views, attitudes, and values are so ingrained that identification and change can be very difficult. It is not only difficult for the advisor, but for the student as well. I believe that it is possible to have personal aspects that are so deep seated that the individual/student does not even recognize the barrier themselves. Having an educational environment that is truly focused on the customer is really the only way to assist a student in this situation. If the culture of the entire organization reflects this, a student working through personal barriers may seek out someone within the organization but outside the direct lines of advisors and instructors. When this happens, the institution can truly identify them self as customer oriented.

I find that while getting to know my students I can pose Hypothetical scenarios that motivates and engages them.

I strongly believe inorder for the students to stay motivated the instructor has to stay motivated.If the clinical instructor come to work at the clinical site unprepared, look very tired how can she exoect the students to do their job well .A clinical instructor should always be the role model for the students

Practice Makes Perfect!!! Work with your students everyday as if it were the first time in your classroom. Lecture, discuss, motivate and listen to their needs. Have an interchange of ideas bouncing off the lectures. Listen to new theories. Reinforce the subject by answer question forums many times with different students, make them feel part of what is important to pass the subject on to other peers. Repeat the subject matter in difernt ways so as not to bore and lose your student. This is hard work. Feel at this time yhou are enlightning a great mind.

One of the most important factors for student retention is building a good rapport with your students. Make an effort to be supportive even when their answers may not be correct, coax them and help to work them to the point where they will feel confident enough to trust and respect your judgement. Never belittle your students and always find ways of making them want to learn. Every mind is different, it is important to find the right key to fit and be able to build a successful rapport with each and every student.

In order to learn a subject the student must be open to participation in an answer and question discussion. At the same time these same students should have enough respect for each other to be able to accept anothers' point of view and learn from this. Do compare, question and answer to each other in forum type of learning in order to achieve the best possible results available.

When working with differnt age groups it is a good idea to be flexible and remember the style of teaching you had used from prior experiences working with these particular groups. Try to instill the importance of their being able to comprehend and discuss the subject as interpreted by their range of undersanding at their chronological age.

with my experince as an instructor in the past i have controlled my class and i learned that if you teach and guide your students you can teach them responsibility and enpower them by letting share what they have learned.

continue motivating students learning as thier instructor i think is very important.

Hi all, One thing I've run into several times as a faculty member at a for-profit college is that students will tell me, "But I didn't pay to get an F!" They honestly feel that, since they paid, they should pass. I often have to sit down and talk to them about why they are failing, what they can do to pass, and then suggest resources. (It tends to occur when a student chooses to ignore their work and outreach attempts, but then shows up on the last few days and thinks they can complete all their work *right then!*) Has anyone else found this entitlement in their students? How do you handle it? Thanks, Kate

I would like to share that focusing on the students needs more would be beneficial to the CEC company. I think that our students need to be treated as customers because without students in our programs or schools we have to revenue.

I have had the chance to work with 2 person teams they have been great. The students seem to work harder they have no time to slack off. Both students learn at a faster rate.

Can we change adult learner Prceptions or have they already been determined when they come to us as professor?