Elizabeth Steele

It is important to have confidence as an instructor, but also to learn your own faults and continue to work on them and improve them to better yourself as an educator. 

It is important to be able to indentify why students are not performing well in the course, and this can be for a variety of reasons. Students need to have their ways of learning met, this means that there needs to be a variety of how the course content is presented 

It is important to ensure that the main topics from the syllabus not only stand out, but are focused for the students' development, havig teamwork as a main focus can help students succeed in the long run. 

It is best to practice what you plan to teach beforehand, also, it is important to use resources to help with every learning style present. 

It is important to understand the learning style of the class, and to have them engage at a level that they are comfortable with, and that can challenge them appropriatly. 

It is important for the students to understand not only what is expected of them, but also how to achieve said goal. They will also need to know their resources in which to complete not only their tasks, but to expand their knowledge as well. 

Being a instructor is being able to be adaptable, finding the best solutions for certain circumstances for each individual group of students. It is about being able to learn and teach in new and exciting environments.