Bayram Erdem
Location Gaziantep, Turkey
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Thank you for providing us with such a useful, entertaining and thought-provoking course. I have enjoyed a lot being a part of it! I have learnt some things that are new to me! I've spent a wonderful six weeks with all of these wonderful people here in this course. Again, thank you very much!
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Thank you for all the help you have provided!
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I do believe that getting to know students and getting to know about them are extremely important prerequisites for real effective teaching since all learners are unique and they differ in their demographics, background, attitudes, and interests from each other.
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Thank you for bringing up this topic! I really appreciate teachers that have a strong sense of empathy and are sympathetic to learners. The teachers who are a source of inspiration to others. The teacher who most of the students in the school would love to have. The teacher learners remember for the rest of their lives. I do sincerely hope to be one of them.
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My Elementary School Teacher was a unique woman. She would bring positive energy into the classroom every single day with her heart-warming beautiful smile. I believe she managed to enjoy every teaching moment to the fullest.
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I believe understanding the principles of effective teaching and acquiring the practical skills to allow us to do this is one of the most important skills to become a successful teacher. Besides, I find becoming more aware of language and be able to apply this knowledge when teaching is also a must.
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Truly inspiring! Thank you!
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Thank you for providing us with such a useful, entertaining and thought-provoking programme. I have enjoyed a lot being a part of it! I have learnt many things that are mostly new to me! I've spent a wonderful six weeks with all of these wonderful people here, namely Sophie Lou, Hamisi Ramadhani Kisinzah, Carol Cochrane and Cecilia Sefa Amoafowaa as well as...
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I have observed that universities worldwide, the one I work at is no exception, are nowadays increasingly opening their doors to peer institutions in other countries. So, universities and policy makers in the sector consider internationalisation to be one of the most significant aspects of an institutional strategy. I think the values of equity and the sharing...
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Such a brilliant idea! I believe that the idea of self-measurement of mental health for people can be even futher developed and be adapted for use for a wider community of people.
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Indeed. I'm happy that you enjoyed the piano!
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I find confidentiality quite important for several reasons. One of the most important elements of confidentiality is that it helps to build and develop trust. It also potentially allows for the free flow of information between your students and you as their mentor and acknowledges that a student’s personal life and all the issues and problems that they have...
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Well..., in my opinion I could have already solved this problem without waiting for the student coming to my classes late for four times: simply by talking to that student from the very beginning and learn about how I, a teacher of him, can be of any assistance!
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I would talk to him, try to understand him and help him understand some basic ground rules.
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I would definitely not allow any students to come to my class late for four times successively, no matter how many minutes they are! So I think I would have spoken to him right away to check whether or not he's got a personal problem when he comes up late to my first class.
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Tell you the truth, I think I would feel as excited as my sister about her final score. However, I would clearly make things certain by saying if I reveal her exam score, this would be against the workplace ethics and behaviours.
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I was astonished by the idea of having digital exams along with its numerous benefits i.e. being cost and time efficient in so many ways!
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I believe self-awareness can be further improved by the responsibilities and help us identify opportunities for the future of ourselves and the society we live in. Therefore I find a student board can play an invaluable internal role as a mentor, and arguably as sounding board!
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Dear Sophie,
Thank you very much for your contribution to the comment section. I really enjoy reading all of your posts!
Smiles and Kind Regards
B Yusuf
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I teach at university level and the students in my classroom must demonstrate appropriate behavioral and social attributes for successful teaching. I would remind them of the Code of Conduct that they signed at the beginning of the classroom by which they all agreed on meeting necessary responsibilities by demonstrating the expected behaviours. I believe that...
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It is a direct sign that the students need a break. So I would probably consider having a short break that might refresh the students a bit or quietly address those students by their names and would remind them they are still in the session time and let them go out if they really need to be.
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Hello Dear Melanie,
How are you? I hope your Monday is good so far!
I am truly excited that there are loads of new things I learn from this course. I have also enrolled on a couple of some other courses here and it's really an invaluable experience for me to interact with the mentors and the people interested in the same area as you do freely.As I...
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A very helpful session! Many thanks!
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A very cool session! Thank you!
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A very informative session. I am going to start using Quizlet more from now on. Thank you.
PS I somehow cannot understand why the first part of the video where the people introduced themselves was cut.
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I have been using this website https://podcastsinenglish.com/ for my students for different purposes but mostly to teach them everyday English with the podcasts in the website about everyday topics. There are aslo interactive exercises to help them practise the language they hear.
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The lesson one for teachers who want their students to successfully grasp, retain, and apply a new language is to recruit their interest. As teachers, I think we need to find ways to make learning relevant, authentic, and valuable in students' lives.
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Age, sex, level, the interests of the learners ... I think they are all equally important to consider when we are preparing our own materials!
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Very nice it is!
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It seems it is a good idea to have such an unpredictable lesson as a last resort as neither the teacher nor the students can know what surprises might turn out during the classtime. Other than this, students get the chance of practicising what they have learnt, the basic grammar and vocabulary knowledge for example.
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I think I would bring four or five minute TV or radio news reports to my class for my intermediate level students. This way, the students will encounter words and constructions that they’d probably never see in formal ESL materials before. Although the students should be able to deal with unknown vocabulary to some extent, I would definitely pre-teach the...
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I believe having a strong student representative in an institution is paramount as it gives students the ability to influence how they can learn to include policies and programmes into their academic life even when they are only students. I think this idea should be fostered further because young people have definitely unique perspectives on learning as well...
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Expectation management
Clear communication
Responsibility, commitment and confidentiality
The building blocks of a course
Active learning
Crucial elements of a syllabus
The self-determination theory
Safe and inclusive learning environments
Directive and facilitative commentary
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I think it might be wise for the mentor to first start with sharing his own experience by which at the same time the students could've found enough time to think about the question and answer it with their reasons.
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I really liked the idea of being trustworthy and sharing the mentor's own personal experience with the students.
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I believe that another smart way to study is to avoid studying for so long. (i) Learning the same information in a variety of ways (reading from class notes/textbooks, teaching someone what you've learnt, ...etc.) (ii) reviewing the information periodically, instead of cramming, (iii) taking notes by hand, instead of using laptop as learners who take notes by...
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If I was a mentor, I think I would hone my ability and willingness more to focus on the first year students' development, but most importantly I would resist the urge to produce a clone!
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I believe that a mentor’s primary role is to provide guidance and support to the students based their unique developmental needs. Besides, a good mentor is the source of encouragement and support.
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It's very interesting what the mentors have said about their experiences. I think the following characteristics of effective mentoring are equally important as well.
value the first year students as a person,
develop mutual trust and respect,
maintain confidentiality,
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As I have learnt from the course, directive feedback just tells the students what to do. So to be honest with you, I find this way rather brusque and dismissive, and I believe very few of us like to be corrected in that way. This is why I find it much less effective than facilitative comments.
On the other hand, facilitative comments addresses problem areas...
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Thank you for providing with this activity. I would like to write down what I have understood from this exercise. As far as I see above, the idea behind the facilitative response is that students best learn to write their own works when they are made responsible for their own writing and re-writing decisions. In this case, the facilitative comments naturally...
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I think feedback needs to be personal, and it needs to be fast, and we as educators should refocus our attention on relevant, practical feedback for students during lessons or very soon after. Therefore true formative assessments mean that after we have taught our students, we have to set clear expectations, provide detailed and timely feedback, and give them...
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I find it as one of the best examples of not to give constructive feedback to anyone!
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The goal of summative assessment is then to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit whilst the goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by us to improve our teaching and by students to improve their learning.
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I believe that assessment should focus on the individual learner, the learning community (class, workshop, or other organized group of learners) or the educational system as a whole.
As to the 'being a good mentor' I think it would be fun if we can manage to play both roles as educators. As Ryckman said once, "We should all be learning from others and...
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Thank you very much for this nice and informative week!
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I think the teacher should be approachable, not only to students, but to everyone on campus, too. I have always admired those teachers to whom the students know they can go with any problems or concerns or even to share a funny story. I, myself, also do myself to have enough ability to bond with my students, to understand and resonate with their feelings and...
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Such an inspiring video! Thank you for this!
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It is very interesting to learn about the personal experiences that the lovely people here have had! Thank you for sharing.
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I believe in an international academic environment that students are not a homogeneous group of ‘oven-ready’ learners. Socio and academic cultural differences, and more general differences in expectations of teaching and learning between students and staff do exist and can really impact on successful student learning. However, because it means sharing of...
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Thank you for this informative video session! I have found it quite helpful!
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I believe that one of the most effective way to build an inclusive learning environment comes from forming meaningful connections with our students. By taking some extra time and effort to see each pupil as an individual and truly believing that each student can succeed, I strongly feel that we can become partners in their success as well.
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As much as we like to challenge the idea of students as consumers, arguing that they are “learners” and that universities are not just “service providers”, I have begun realising that education is progressively becoming a commodity that we are buying into. As a result, at least in Turkey today’s fee-paying students are beginning to demand more than ever...
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Dealing with students who have personal or interpersonal problems is a complex subject that is often given not enough adequate attention by teachers. Each individual in a class has a particular and unique personality style that has been shaped by their background. There can be driver types and quiet folk, expressives, analyticals, reserved, shy, reactive and...
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I think it depends on the teacher to be honest. Some years it can depend on the students. I LOVE teaching. And I can't do that without planning of course. Management was an issue for me when I first started, but with experience, I have found I can handle almost any issue. Testing is my least favourite. But even with that, you need to assess students to know...
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•arguments in class for example when arguments erupt in class, or when a student makes an inflammatory comment,
•overly talkative students especially when one student dominates the classroom
•unresponsive students particularly when students remain silent
•student excuses such as ‘’I was locked out of my dorm all night. I had to visit my grandmother,...
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I liked the item 6 the most. The paragraph tells a lot in terms of Positive Psychology, giving information us about the factors that enable us to live happy and fulfilled lives.
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Well…, I have found this task a bit challenging. For a start, I think that we cannot shape the years of experiences that have led to the fixed mindset of the learners, however I still believe there are some things that we as university instructors can do to set students on the path of developing a growth mindset. I think I would try to talk about adopting a...
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I have been amazed by the concepts of Fixed mindset and Growth mindset and to which I have fallen. As to the different types of compliments, I think our compliments ought to be sincere and specific and that we ought to focus our compliment on something we know is important to the other person. Instead of on presumed fixed traits, like, intelligence of the...
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I think it’s not only the teachers who are concerned with the target learners’ or even their own motivation — how to move themselves or others to act. Everywhere, parents, teachers, coaches struggle with how to motivate the people around them that they teach or mentor. Because we as teachers, for example sometimes struggle to find energy, mobilize effort and...
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I would just give myself enough time to write. I remember it took almost a whole day to write the words, slides and discussion points for a two hour session on a subject I was unfamiliar with when it was my first teaching session. What I would do as a second thing I would ask myself whether or not I familiarised myself with the room and its facilities and make...
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I think as a university teacher myself, I dare say there is no one right way to teach in small groups. Because I have observed that what happens in any teaching situation will depend on your objectives, the subject at hand, and the engagement of students as well as your and your students’ interests. For example, I find myself thinking of promoting discussion...
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I have heard from quite a lot of my colleagues saying they have never been able to manage to be as funny, approachable, or creative as thier favorite teachers. But I believe that simply by recognising these traits as desirable, we can become more approachable, creative, and, yes, funnier than we would be otherwise. Thank you for the interview!
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Thank you for the informative article. I am of the opinion that efficint teachin is as much about passion as it is about the reason we as educators have. It’s about not only motivating students to learn of course, but teaching them how to learn for themselves independently, and doing so in a manner that is relevant, meaningful, and memorable. It’s about caring...
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I think enthusiastic, reliable and a teacher that has more of a coach role with clear, written-out objectives is what I can call as a good teacher.
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I believe that a successful teacher is always a lifelong learner, so he is always ready to learn with his team who is in this case his students. Also, he is the one who forms strong relationships with their students and show that he cares about them as people.
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Thank you for providing such an exciting platform! This cource has already started giving me new ideas and making me feel I want to do something new in my classes from now on.
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Truly impressive! What an inspiring video!
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When I look at what makes ESL syllabus a good one, I can see that being goal oriented, need based activity, having the Focus on communication aspects are also important together with what has been mentioned in the article.
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I believe a syllabus can serve many functions in a class. To me, an ideal syllabus should emcompass the followings:
Describes Active Learning
Establishes an early point of contact and connection between student and teacher
Describes your beliefs about educational purposes
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I find it quite intriguing. Thank you for supplying the links in the ''See Also'' Section.
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As far as I’m concerned, Roged mentioned ‘’learning’’ as a cycle, and according to him it begins with experience, continues with reflection and later leads to action, which itself becomes a concrete experience for reflection. For example, a teacher might have an encounter with an angry student who failed a test. This is the experience. Reflection of this...
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Active learning involves the students through participation and investment of energy in all the phases of the learning process bringing many advantages to the classroom setting. For example:
It increases critical thinking skills in students, enable students to show initiative, involves students by stimulating them to talk more.
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Active learning like learning through play, activity based learning, group work, project method, etc. the REAL underlying factor behind these have some significant similarities in terms of their qualities. Active learning is also known as learner-centred, the opposite of passive learning; which means it is not teacher-centred. Students should do more than just...
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Whilst having a Speaking class, I intend my students in the programme will develop effective speaking skills such that they can be understood by classmates, and by their professors for academic and social purposes including conversations, classroom discussions and oral presentations. So my intended leaning outcomes is
Students will be able to:
•Converse...
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I am not sure whether this important issue was mentioned in the video above or not but intended learning outcomes also should be about student performance. Good intended learning outcomes shouldn’t be too abstract either as in ‘’the students will understand what good literature is’’; should be neither too narrow e.g. “the students will know what a ground is”...
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I really liked how the specific examples are used to help understand the concept of intended learning outcomes. Intended learning outcomes are not simply a list of the topics to be covered in the course. Certainly, there will be a body of knowledge that students should know and understand by the time the course is complete. But if the goals for what students...
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I believe the building blocks for my language course are constructively aligned.
Intended learning outcome for example is that students learn how to use this, that, these, those.Teaching and learning activities: I ask students to lend me one or more objects each. Then, I place these visibly in different locations around the room. I put some things close...
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Thank you for this meticulously designed presentation!
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The target lerners of my course are those who are first year students at university. Their language levels can differ enormously, and thus different level classes are opened each year from Beginners to Advance Level. Therefore whilst I use mostly very basic and clear communicative activities with my Beginner level students, I prefer prioritising language...
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Take a tacher sitting in the middle of the classroom, surrounded by students for example. How does she manage? When does she do this? And most importantly why does she do this? It's simply because a fully-fledged teacher must know about pedagogy and effective teachers must spend much time on strategic questions - pedagogy - how to manage well, how to reach...
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There is no doubt about that teaching and learning are complex processes. As a Turk, I dare say, Turkish educators has looked for better ways to educate children since Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. So we are still struggling with that fundamental issue, particularly in light of our increasing population and the rapid rate of technological...
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I would like to thank you for providing us with extremly useful information. It was truly a very intriguing and exciting week for me because I believe what I have learnt so far gave me a lot of information about how a person should stand professionally in an academic setting. I strongly feel I will be able to learn much more with the help of this great...
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I really enjoyed the Cloud especially when it displays the results of what professionalism and unprofessionalism mean by using bold colourful big type-size characters. Such a clever idea!
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The student assistants in the video set arguable a best example of how to behave professionally in an academic setting!
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I should think I would take up a more indulgent role and I would like not to report the situation to my supervisor immediately. If I observe, however, that the student or the co-worker takes advantage of my tolerance, I would keep my supervisor informed about it.
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Case 1: I would ask that student to come to my office for a short talk when he is not busy. I would say I felt sorry when he had to leave the class because he said it was a very urgent family matter. If he sounds honest and convinces me of his rightfulness about his action, I would try to help him how to catch up on the session he missed.
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Amongst the most important lessons I’ve learnt as a young person in life is that to become successful at anything requires commitment. There will be many obstacles on the path to accomplishing a worthwhile goal. When those obstacles appear it’s really easy to lose the belief and thus the motivation to continue on the same path. Therefore, commitments are...
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Involving students in almost every step of decision making of the university surely creates a positive learning environment in an academic setting. This will allow the students as well as the co-workers to feel comfortable, safe and engaged – something that all students deserve indeed. In a university where values and roles remain constant and focus is placed...
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It just goes to show that taking responsibility and initiative, making profitable commitments and confidentiality are three important keys that a a good student assistant should never forget!
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Hello Adeola,
You can simply clink on the ''View transcript'' of the lesson which is just below the video.
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As it is mentioned in the video, as long as there are (i) Proper response, (ii) Procedures and (iii) Tasks Distribution by making sure everyone, including senior management, understands his or her role and responsibilities, a proper result at the end will be yielded.
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Expectation Management comes up when an educational institution manages its own understanding of what is expected of itself, especially in terms of different expectation types and their differences in relevance and priority. Thus, expectation management is more about strategic monitoring, and a thorough analysis of stakeholder expectations.
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I think (i) showing a calm, reassuring demeanor when interacting with students, superiors or co-workers even during tense situations, and (ii) displaying ethical behavior at all times are also equally important. Thank you for the useful presentation!
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Could someone possibly congratulate Juan for me?
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Well..., I really like the idea of supporting students' learning process in a felxible and friendly environment. For example, we, as language teachers at university, are encouraged to wear more colourful and sports clothes because we think that if we come to our classes with formal clothes, say with...
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I believe Poor communication, Being fake and Being unresponsive are one the most typical ones for unprofessional behaviours whilst Appearance (being neat in appearance), Demeanor (being well-spoken and polite) and Reliability (getting the job done and keeping promises in a timely manner) all accounts for professional attitudes.
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First of all, amongst my Circle of Influence comes ‘My happiness’ and ‘My choices’ towards how to lead a better life, which means I should be able to make and KEEP commitments and promises to achieve that. Other than this, the followings are also amidst my Circle of Influence:
(i) My attitude and enthusiasm
(ii) What skills I learn
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As it is mentioned in the video, Stephen Covey defines Proactive People as “being responsible for our own lives…..our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.’’ So these people work on things they can do something about. The nature of their energy in doing this is positive, enlarging and magnifying. Therefore they increase their Circle of...