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n adds motivation to their students behavior. When an instructor motivates a student to do well, the student usually tries to succeed beyond that point. This can most easily be done by the positive reinforcement of the students abilities and through constructive criticism. When an instructor portrays to their students that they believe in their abilities, the student unknowingly starts believing that they do posses the same abilities. Through applying the second ingredient to becoming an effective instructor, motivation, the grapes start to ferment and the apprentice now becomes a journeymen of the wine making trade. Finally, the most important ingredient required of an effective instructor is that of patients. Patients is of a virtue when instructing students, much in the same way it is when making a fine wine. The majority of the success a student will achieve throughout this process is a direct result of the amount of patients displayed by the instructor. All students do not learn at the same rate and level. The patient of the instructor for each of their students is of vast significant. When a student may be struggling to obtain a firm grasp of the material, the patients or impatience of the instructor will ultimately determine the particular students success. When an instructor applies this third ingredient to ones learning process, they progress to the realms of master tradesmen. All in all, being an effective instructor is more than merely knowing and exercising the science of instruction. Just as the process of fermenting grapes can yield either wine or cooking vinegar, the process of instructing students can yield similar results. Instructors with the right stuff to become master tradesmen understand that making five-star Chardonnay is a delicate process. Furthermore, they also understand that they must add the additional ingredients of: personality, motivation, and patients to the bottomless vats of their stud...

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