With adult learners you need to make the material important to their lives and career.
Yes!, I worked at a school where I was a minority and other instructors were labeled. I though about every discision I made to make sure I was fair.
Hi Donna,
Students can easily determine when an instructor is showing favortisim. Treat every student the same, and no one will be able to say anything other than, you are a fair instructor.
Patricia
They are looking for the teacher to help them learn and advance in the subject and there future career.
So true! It is critical to treat all students the same - in a friendly, professional manner, but without being a friend.
Hi Hany,
Control is extremely important in the classroom. If you don't control the classroom, students will, then problems will come about.
Patricia
To have a good control over the class together with respect as a teacher
By becoming a friend you risk the possibility of being manipulated and asked to do some improper favors. Keeping the distance is the best way to maintain and increase the respect from the entire class. Friends are friends and teachers must be teachers only!
Maintaning the instructor and student status is all powerful when encouraging acknowledgement and acceptance of the syllabus and guidelines set for the class.
A professional image creates respect. Respect creates a great learning environment.
In becoming close to some students, you may be alienating others. There will be a feeling like you are "playing favorites" and this will result in resentment and frustration from the students that feel left out. You need to treat each student in the same professional manner.
Hi Christopher,
Absolutely! Our students learn from us either, good or bad. We are some of our students only role model. We must lead by example.
Patricia
Being an instructor is a leadership role with all the responsibilities of a leader. Students, as people in the real world, want their leaders to provide direction and the ability to show them how to overcome their challenges and become sucessful.
In order to obtain and maintain the respect of your students, an instructor must only have a professional relationship with students. When the line between teacher and student becomes blurred, many problems arise.
Hi Meghan,
I concur! The smaller the class, the more students want to get to know you on a personal level. My rule is in the classroom we are strictly business.
Patricia
Hi Isabel,
Maintaining a professional distance with students is key. Instructors have to know when to have students to back off.
Patricia
Hi Judy,
Absolutely! I totally agree. The instructor has to make their presence known, otherwise students will think that they control the classroom.
Patricia
Hi Gary,
Students expect, want, and need us to project a professional image. Most of our students learn professionalism from us.
Patricia
Maintaining a professional image is vital so that students can gain the most from a teacher's instruction. Such an image is at the center of respect for most students and gives them the proper relationship with their teacher. Gary Jones
Hi Linda,
Students need us to be professional as well. We are some of our students only role model.
Patricia
