As a veteran of a cohort-styled vocational school, and now as an instructor in a similarly styled format, I have found that managing the individual needs of the students for recognition, acceptance, praise, competition, etc, is sometimes best juxtaposed against the group dynamic. ' My own experience is that the most lasting impressions of vocational school are those of my cohort - not the instructors, per se, or necessarily the administration or facility. So, knowing this, I feel I can capitalize on this dynamic by, in addition to individual needs, meeting the larger, and more diverse, personality of the group as well. The benefits, to my mind, of this approach, are an enhanced learning environment that allows the individual to achieve more as students, and the cohort as a whole.