KEYS TO SUCCESS!!
Opening a new class with the goals and rules for the class to me is very detrimental to how the class will unfold. Discussing the topics and goals for the class are easier, I find for the students to understand than to just give them a piece of paper with the course outline and rules and expect all of the students to adhere to them. Remember different students learn in different fashions. Group discussions will cause the students to start to relate to one another which will help them to work together in the future.
I totally agree with all the points that you mentioned especially about definite goals and rules helps student to remain focus along the course. Success is the achievement of something desired intended or attempt.
I find it is good to mix it up when delivering your keys to success. Sometimes I will use the power point first, last or at the same time while delivering my message as to what I expect. I also use it to try and figure out what type of student, attitudes, and backrounds so I can try to get a feel for what the students are like. We have had some good interactions as to what some of them have seen and heard while at school and work.
Anthony
I agree,Brian. I find that the students are more receptive to your expectations, if you talk about them before they recieve a handout. This places the students at ease, and also helps to break the ice of the first day.
Hi William! Thanks so much for your comments; you're right, KTS are different in the eyes of every instructor and, hopefully in the eyes of every student. As a tangent, I have found that what a student defines as success can be different from what the instructor views as success for that student. I think it's important to make sure that the career and professional success we highlight for a student is, in fact, what that student perceives and wants.
Jay Hollowell
MaxKnowledge
Too often Keys to Success is viewed as redundant by the student – “we’ve heard it all before” they say. While they may have heard one or two accounts of KTS they haven’t heard this instructor’s perspective - by the end of the student’s career they should have heard multiple versions of the same story and the affects professionalism had on each narrator.
