Jennifer Toomey

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Sometimes I find that students that I encourage do not believe that I am being truthful when I really am. This is a rare problem, but does upset me when it occurs. I have found that most of the time when this occurs, the student is already lacking in confidence and cannot accept positive feedback

Jennifer Toomey

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Feeling the same frustrations as the students

When students complain about things like lack of supplies, product, space, etc., it becomes difficult as the instructor when you happen to agree with them. What are some ways to handle these types of circumstances?

Jennifer Toomey

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Interactive Demos

In my experience, I have found that students can get bored with even the most entertaining of demos. To resolve this, I will start a demo and them call upon a student or students to continue or copy my demo

Jennifer Toomey

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Accomplishing the entire syllabus

Even though this rarely occurs, occasionally, we run out of time, which can throw some of the course goals off, leaving something to be cut short or cut all together...

Jennifer Toomey

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Students that don't listen

I have had several students that I have taken several different approaches with on getting them to listen and to "soak up" the information, yet they still don't want to be proactive in their learning.