I find that student will feed off the instructor’s excitement and enthusiasm. If you walk in the classroom and tell the students, “This is the first time I am teaching this course so we are going to learn it togetherâ€, (I have actually heard this), you are setting yourself up for disaster. Students will complain (as they did) and the instructor has lost their expert status along with respect. I keep the excitement in the classroom with lots of real world experience.
