Michelle Booth

I am a fan of the empower assignment with the 3X5 index cards. There are a lot of students that are not able to expredd how they feel and for that matter even get to answer questions about what they have learned because so many others plow them over with what they have to say. This is a great idea to get everyone involved and slowly work into getting the quiet ones to hopefully contribute!

As an Instructor, I like to engage the students in some of the topics that I have practiced in my career before becoming an Instructor. The students become more interactive when I have "life stories" that they will be seeing in practice, they become excited about their schooling and become more talkative and interested in what we are learning.

We do get a lot of age diverse students in classes and I see the fear in the older students. I think it is a joy to work with such a range of personalities and ages. It makes the real life stories interesting for the younger students and the older students enjoy hearing stories from the younger ones. I feel that most of the time in working together, the older students fears are gone after a few hours of getting to know the class.