David Grant

Making a "stress list" can actually be seen as a first step to dealing with stress in your life. I agree with this statement completely, prioritizing work and personal tasks can always help reduce stress.

There are a number of students that move to this city completely unprepared to even live and support themselves, much less go to school for 25 hours a week. It seems that they are taking less personal responsability for getting jobs and for saving money and doing all of the things necessary to live well enough to attend school. I know that they are counsled on what they need to do, but when they don't listen, they are always one tank of gas...or one financial set back away from wanting to quit and go home.

It is always important to use more than one delevery method to give course material. Keeping an open mind in the first day or two of meeting the new class will allow you time to survey what styles you will need to use to best suit everyone.

It is important for all educators to keep themselves updated on the new developments in whatever field they are teaching. If not it tends to become stale.

Attention span is directly related to the way that the material is presented. It is our job to "feel" how they are recieving our method at any given time and change up to keep every student on board. "Entertainer, comedian, producer and instructor." that was a key point to this module. I am still constantly chasing this, it is somtimes fun and sometimes frustrating in my opinion... but always an interesting challenge for me.