H! I have just completed ED 102. I have learned about the various ways to keep myself and students motivated to be successful. I think this is a key aspect for students to understand that their instructors are motivated towards the subject being taught each day plus motivated to allow students succeed and enjoy learning material they can use in their new careers soon.
As for applying this aspect, I need to understand that each student has different reasons as to being in school and working towards the career they chose, thus it is important to recognize these to create learning that they can feel they have understood and can apply. For teaching, I think it is easy to become boring and lack motivation when you teach the same material, thus it is important for me to realize that I need to approach each class with a different method of learning so it creates variety for me too.
I think the best support is other faculty and academic deans who have been teaching for many years so they have advice to offer new teachers like myself.
