Effective Communication

• Effective communication techniques should be practiced to ramp up the students' participation while improving their interest in the material. Never underestimate the intuition of your students. If you want them to become interested in the material, then first convey your personal interest in the material. This holds true even if the class is merely a 100-level course that you could teach while half-asleep. Find ways to remember what you found enjoyable about the subject while you were a student, and attempt to liven up the classroom by projecting confidence and enthusiasm day in and day out.
  
  

Effective Feedback

• Provide effective and unbiased feedback for your students to avoid conflicts and feelings of favoritism, which can undermine the learning process. This means clearly conveying expectations at the beginning of the course and adhering to your standards without fail to avoid any appearance of impropriety. The syllabus given at the beginning of the semester should be complete and accurate; if changes need to be made, they should be provided as soon as possible (with apologies if the changes are unfavorable) and disseminated across several different mediums, such as in-class distribution or announcement coupled with a note passed along via email to inform students who might have been absent on that day. Likewise, feedback from assignments should be given as soon as possible, with grades clearly available to the students upon request.
  
  

Accessibility

• Practice full accessibility, offering reasonable office hours to your students. Remember that their schedules can be significantly varied. So offer both day and evening office hours if possible, along with allowing students to set up individual appointments with prior notice. When dealing with your students, whether in a private discussion or in the classroom, always treat every student with complete respect (regardless of whether it is merited), providing full and complete answers to all questions. When dealing with difficult students, try to put yourself in their position, figure out what it is that would make you happy and give it to them if possible. One of the quickest ways to lose interest from a class is to show disrespect or blatant favoritism in the classroom or elsewhere. So avoid biased displays to ensure that everyone in the class remains attentive to your presentation of the material.