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Helping Students When They Are Discouraged

I have some students that get bogged down by their 6th or 7th mod and just say it is taking too long too complete the program what are some ways I can encouage them to keep going even through the rough patches

Back Up Plan

When you find that a particular teaching method is not keeping the attention of your students, it is important to have a back-up lesson in place to grab their attention.

overwhelming the students

When the students gets overwhelmed, I noticed its usually because there is too much material that is presented to them. Such as, reading assigned for homework, reports due the next day, and research that needs to be done for the class. When the students are overwhelmed they tend to give up quickly and lose interest. Setting small goals for them allows them to have a sense of accomplishment and they are more motivated.

Back up plan

Great idea and show you are prepared for anything.

Plan B OR C

Please lets talk about what if Plan B is not working?

unprepared students

The biggest problem I face is having students with a weak educational background.

Taking into consideration the students ability to complete homework

I struggle with assigning homework tough enough to challenge the strong students and easy enough that the struggling students don't feel overwhelmed. How do you suggest I handle the students that aren't willing to put any effort into the homework? Should I consider their "lack of effort" as the students "ability" to complete an assignment?

Pre-testing

Here is one place I feel the rub - class time. In my program the amount of time per term has been dropped by 20% since I began teaching 22 years ago. Of course, the expected level of content to be mastered has not dropped - if anything its expanded. I already feel pressure to get through the content in the time allotted (before loss of snow days, of course!). At any rate, while in the theoretical realm I agree with things like pretests, its difficult to find the time, to be frank.

students that are restless

To mix things up and to get an idea of how the class is learning the new material, I will have them play a game which each team gets to ask each other team one question. They use the book to find questions and enjoy challenging one another

Pretesting

Pretesting is a great way to determine the strengths of each student.

using pretest

We have a wide variety of educational & ethical variety of students. This helped

Cross Cultural Communication skills and your international students

In teaching adults from different cultures, the instructor must be able to adapt to deal with those differences. Pre-testing can help alleviate language barrier and some knowledge based issues, but it would be well worth the time to invest in cross cultural communications training for the instructor. It also applies to teaching adults from different professional background... i.e. each profession has its own culture and specific language. (police, nurses, military, engineers, teachers....)

Assignment too dificult for students

When the instructor see the class is not understanding the task you are teaching, is that possible we break down the task to make then understand the class?

Pre-testing

when it comes to testing on the surgical instruments for ST program, I always have an open lab and student on student tutoring before test days. This helps my students perform better when it's test day.

Plan B

I like the plan B ideas.......and just good ole Be Prepared and into your students,,,,they are the customer.....

Students from developing nations

Students from developing nations may have considerably different expectations about their professors than American students. For example, they may not think that you were hired as the result of a competitive process or that you are particularly qualified to teach. If they come from countries where nepotism or bribery is the norm, they might think that you are their professor because your uncle got you this job or that you are paying a kickback to the Dean that hired you. For this type of student, convincing them that you are in fact qualified to teach might be your first task. Something to keep in mind.

engaging students who have lost interest.

Pretests

Prestests are incredibly valuable when it comes to evaluating the level of knowledge in your classroom. With pretests you are able to use compare and contrast to see which type of lecture would benefit them as a whole. This in itself creates a big difference in the students learning environment.

Teaching to testing

I teach in a field where when they have completed college they are to take a state and national exam. We need to move our students from memorizing the material for the test and forgetting it to actually having them retain the info. How are they planning on passing the board exams if they aren't actually learning the material? I have started to use cumulative testing and that is seeming to help with that.

Teaching Styles

I Try to teach and instruct by considering all the different type of learning styles. Implementing them into my class ensures me that no student is getting left behind. I also tell my students that if they are having trouble learning to speak with me so that I may approach a different way in delivering the material.