Teachers within the working environment of VET (Vocational Education and Training) institutions experience various challenges due to the diversity of students they are handling every day. Patience indeed has to be a virtue to these professors, especially with students with strong personalities. To handle challenges of this nature, VET teachers would need skills that are beyond being able to use with expertise the student records management system or the RTO software. It's the students themselves who will have to be handled in the proper manner.
For students with a particularly choleric character, some teaching practices would prove helpful in neutralizing the challenges which may be encountered by teachers. Here is a short list of these teaching practices upon which you, as a VET teacher, may eventually base your methods on.
1. Try to act like you are choleric yourself. Choleric individuals are organized and possess the initiative to plan things and accomplish them. They are, in a word, inborn leaders. If you naturally have this type of personality, you are on vantage ground. If, on the other hand, you are the opposite type, you only have to start loving the positive characteristics of the choleric and you will soon be motivated to be as he is.
2. Consider the suggestions and arguments of your choleric students. Choleric students can easily comment on the performance of their teachers. You may take advantage of this characteristic by conducting regular evaluations and considering whatever your choleric students may suggest. Of course, you still hold the discretion to follow or modify their suggestions to everybody's best advantage.
3. When choleric students make mistakes, talk to them in private. It may be with a performance of an academic nature or something that concerns moral behavior. When the mistake is committed, be sure to avoid provoking the student by a public rebuke. While he may desire to get straight rebukes, he does not usually want it in public. Also, while he may have the tendency to do it to others, he usually does not want to experience the same for himself.
As you might have noticed, the above practices are quite embedded with psychological principles. Indeed, you would need something much more than knowledge on the usage of some learning management systems. As a professional VET teacher, you may have been trained well with the use of the NCVER validation software, but without the armory of some practical methods of dealing with strong personalities, it would simply be hard to succeed as an academician in vocational schools.
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