I agree we need to be flexible and being capable of discover the whole potential of each student.
Knowing my students, and actually learning about them during the ten- or eleven-week classes, helps me to understand why they may be consistently late, unable to accomplish certain tasks, and not perform to their best ability. This allows me to listen to them and offer suggestions for improving their classroom experience. For those students who excel in spite of outside-the-classroom challenges, there are often tips on coping with those challenges that can be used by others. We learn the course content, but also learn much more about our relationship as teacher/student.
Being a student centered instructor helps run the class more successfully; we deal with the student needs if we can talk about something the student brings up and it relates to the course we can take a day or two to discuss it.
Hi Cecelia:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Alphia:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Rufino:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Respect your students as individuals,learn about them but keep a professional distance.
Our job as a teacher is to ensure that the students are learning in the classroom. In order to do this you have to be sure who they are and how they learn so you can formulate assignments and discussions that they will relate to ane will be able to learn from. The professor is there for them, not the other way around. In teaching writing, I always tell the students they need to know their audinece so they understand how to write to them. the same thing goes for teaching.
Hi Joseph:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
As I take a moment to think about my instructional approach, I realize that it is mostly about completing classroom "requirements" - cover this objective/material, manage attendance, retention duties, troubleshoot technical issues, fill all the class time - rather than about what the students will get from the content of the class. Sadly, this makes the experience very little fun for anyone.
Hi Jonathan:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Phonesavanh:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Theresa:
I would recommend speaking to him one on one privately and see if you can get through his exterior by relating the problem in a military way.
Ask him if he ever experienced a situation that required action that didn't have him rely on his military skills, then relate that to what you're going through with him.
Regards, Barry
Hi Madelina:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Karen:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Denise:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
The goal of teaching is to enable the students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for successful completion of the course material. Thus, it's all about what the student needs to help them succeed and meet the objectives of the course. As instructors, we should facilitate learning by helping each student to learn in a style that works for them.
Being a student-centered instructor will help me to be successful as an instructor because it helps me to learn who my student is and what he knows up to now, which will help me to help him succeed.
Hi CJ:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
Hi Teri:
One of the best ways of being a student-centered instructor is to consistently be flexible in our approach. This may be difficult, especially with technical course work that must be delivered to the student in order for them to move on in a training program.
However, if we can always keep in mind the teaching methods that work best for your student group, and having a willingness to make changes in delivery on the fly will promote the outcomes that are in the best interests of our students.
Regards, Barry
