Student Guide Corner

In my previous blog posting, I talked about motivation � are you a football coach or a scout leader?    I received several emails asking how I motivate students under either of those approaches.    Well, no motivational style works perfectly on every occasion but I think you need to (a) really communicate clearly to your students at all times and (b) sell the course to them.     Every course and every friend and every club is demanding every minute of a student�s time.    Why should they pick your course to focus their attentions?    I think that is where communication becomes vital and I think that communication has to have some element of marketing in it.    If you believe in the importance of your course, then you need to help them understand what needs to be done. Consequently, here is an email that I sent to my students today.   To:    Accounting Students From:    JH At the beginning of th...

I wrote my first entry for this blog on January 7, 2010.    At that time, I expected to write 5 or 10 essays.    I thought I might get a few hundreds readers.    I had one goal in mind:    to get more teachers talking about teaching.   Personally, I don�t think we come close to having enough serious conversations about the challenges and fun of being teachers and I wanted to push people in that direction.    I just think we need a lot more exchange of ideas if we are going to meet the educational problems of today. Well, this is now my 159 th posting on this blog and there have been more than 72,000 page views over the past three years.    I very much appreciate everyone who helps to spread the word by mentioning the blog to someone else.    The goal never changes � to get people talking about their teaching.    Education is serious business.    It is not a job to be taken lightly.   ...