How to keep your instructor style fresh
Find comon interest between yourself and students
Hi Fred,
Your method in using the past to create a vision of the future for your students is a good. This really helps the students to see themselves in the picture of success. You as the instructor through the establishing of rapport with the students become the connecting link between student and progress.
Gary
One of the style that i find to be consistently successful to build rapport is to instruct present students of current and past successes that other students from the same school have experienced.
I'm a new instructor so I can't claim to know, but I remember that as a student the teacher who seemed to heve a genuine enthusiam for their subject always proved to have "the freshest style."
Have been reading these sugestions and will try to adapt some to my style. I find I know the subject, but tend to be boring with presentation.
I do a lot of research so I can keep up with things students are interested in and like to discuss, I find out their interset and hobbies and incorporate them in some of my lectures
The most common interest could quite possibly be your own success and professional development. This can quitely easily be used as a vehicle to identify your interest in staying current in your field, and subsequently contrast that to what will expected of a sucessfull student who enters employment.
Hi Trevor,
Good point about creating a common interest base with your students. This common interest base will help you to establish rapport with your students. What are some strategies you use to create the common interest base?
Gary
