Hi Breane,
You have to be very stern with the young learner and let them know that they will work for what they get or else.
Patricia Scales
What are some best practices for expressing to these students the importance of their actions?
I am a young person and work as an advisor, but I come from a much older, traditional family. I find myself relating more to the older adult learners and getting more frustrated with the younger adult learners. The learners that are my age!
When I show the younger gen Y students that I am really an expert in what I am teaching, usually, I get a good response and they become interested and want me to show them how to do it themselves. This works most of the time.
I agree with this as well as I find that alot of students will put in minimal effort yet exspect the same "reward" as those who put the time and effort to learn that which they have come to learn. I believe students get the grades they earn. That in alot of fields doing jobs half way or not to proper procedure can cause harm or death. They need to learn there is no reset button and that they are the one who is responsible.
I see much of Generation vrs Generation but at my age I've seen that each one has had those people all along. We now have lables and catagories where in the past they were not explained; explored or tolerated as easily. I have success with new gen who want to know and fail with old gen who don't care so I handle all the same anyway.
This true to some extent. I have found that even with younger students, if I set the correct tone on the first day, then constantly re-enforce it, I can overcome a lot (but not all) off the younger students expectations that he will be spoon fed the knowledge.
Hi Jesse,
I have found the same to be true! There is a big difference between Generation X and Generation Y. We must teach Generation Y that you earn grades, you are not given grades.
Patricia Scales
