While this course is a great reminder of many techniques we should all be implementing in our classrooms, it is more importantly a reminder of how much pleasure we as instructors gain from this type of classroom setting. When you approach your classroom in this manner, you and your students will LOVE it!

I have found that the more you share your personal journey the more you seem to relate to them. In order for student retention to occur instructors, facuilty and staff must come together and devise a plan. Instructors must build a special relationship with all students and maintain communication at all times. Understanding and relating to your students needs and concerns concerns.

I have found that the more you share your personal journey the more you seem to relate to them. In order for student retention to occur Instructors, facuilty and staff must come together and devise a plan. Instructors must build a special relationship with all students and maintain communication at all times. Understanding and relating to your students needs and concerns concerns.

This is a gray area that ther course treats as black and white.  Many motivators defined as extrinsic are also often intrinsic.

Example.  I get a gold star for having the top grade on a test.  That's extrinsic, and out course would say that's all it is.  But I like getting the gold star because it symbolizes my accomplishment and enhances my confidence.  That's intrinsic.

Gained a lot of insight with retention.

Never cross the line, and always strive to do your best,be an educator that cares, promotes and is willing to assist students in reaching their dreams.

This was an EXCELLENT ADVENTURE through this last course ED112, I truly enjoyed learning what does motivate some indivduals. As the saying goes "you can please some of the people some of the time, however, you cannot please all the people all of the time".

I enjoyed learning about how to enhance my active learning techniques.

I plan to use what I have learned to offer better instruction in class.

Valuing one's achievement in learning is part of a higher learing enterprise. It is when we recognize and value those who achieved in learning that our desires to promote learning have true purpose and bear results. 

Learning is not only to know what are established as knowlegde but facilitates creativity as well. It is when we learn and know how to add, that we think how to multiply. 

Although an imperative process that is understood at a higher stage, learning is more appreciated when we know the reasons why we learn. We humans live better and effectively when we solve problems effectively, both in startegy and time, in whcih learning offers the tools of that job. 

The assesment criteria helped to provide some insight on structural and behavioral pattersn of both the studen and teachers alike.  The data collected allowed me to prcess the material which help to utilize such information moving forward throughout my career. 

My action plan involves re-engaging the student, via constant background aknowledgement and also creating diverse strategies that will help them realize how having passion for their career can make a difference when added to their academic skills learning goals.

I remember my educational experience during my ADN program. I lived in fear everyday during clinical rotations. The instructors that stood out in my mind were the kind and understanding human beings who valued teaching and more importantly facilitated learning. The few instructors that I feared were not approachable. They were task oriented. The primary focus was on the task being accomplished.

I began to see the changes in the educational process during my BSN program. The focus was on critical thinking. And my instructors were promoting education for all nurses at the highest level. I felt that my experience… >>>

As a Psychology Instructor, I am always mindful of how my students are connecitng to the course, myself and their peers. These courses support and reinforce what I am already doing with my students and they were great to review.

I like to have feedback sessions with students to findout what they enjoy about the course and what they need help with or find to be of a challenge.  I think that having continuous sessions of feedback and learning what works and what does not is very helpful in instructing.  

Great insight on information and ways of teaching student 

If you love the subject matter your students will flourish.

The course was quite interesting as and experience instructor. Psychology classes should have some case studies with no right or wrong answer but real world situations.