Effective Classroom Management
Ensuring that your classroom lessons run smoothly, establishing rules, motivating students to participate, maintaining discipline, and creating an environment in which students can succeed are all factors that contribute to effective classroom management. Turn to Faculty Focus for tips and techniques.
June 17, 2010
Student Engagement: Trade-offs and Payoffs
I dread the moments when I look out into a classroom and see a collection of blank stares or thumbs clicking on tiny keypads: a pool of disengaged students, despite ... Read more »
April 7, 2010
Dealing with Difficult Students: the Narcissist
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the whitepaper Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom. This post deals with the narcissistic student. Students with ... Read more »
March 26, 2010
Four Tips for Dealing with Difficult Students
Managing students who are disruptive, those who lack motivation and appear as though they would rather be any place than in the classroom, is easier when faculty take the right ... Read more »
January 29, 2010
Conditions Associated with Classroom Conflict
Students can and do regularly disrupt the classroom. Sometimes they are openly hostile, challenging the teacher’s authority and objecting to course requirements and classroom policies. More often, the conflict grows ... Read more »
January 13, 2010
Making the Most of the First Day of Class
The first day of class is an important time. In addition to the usual housekeeping tasks that need to be accomplished, there are other critical functions – not the least ... Read more »
October 23, 2009
A Novel Approach to Encouraging Class Participation
Most instructors attempt to encourage class participation by making it part of the overall grade. But evaluating individual contributions and promoting a substantive, intriguing discussion at the same time is ... Read more »
October 14, 2009
Promoting a Culture of Academic Integrity
In last Wednesday’s post, Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant, the authors of the newly released CHEATING IN SCHOOL: What We Know and What We ... Read more »
October 7, 2009
Tips to Reduce Cheating in the College Classroom
In CHEATING IN SCHOOL: What We Know and What We Can Do, (Wiley-Blackwell) authors Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant provide a comprehensive look at ... Read more »
October 1, 2009
A Smart Way to Handle Student Excuses
Students and excuses seem to go hand in hand. Sometimes the excuses result from real events and personal problems that legitimately prevent a student from being in class, completing an ... Read more »
September 25, 2009
Student Recommendations for Encouraging Participation
Getting students to participate in class is one of those perplexing instructional problems we all face, particularly when teaching undergraduate classes. Are there significant differences in the graduate classroom? A ... Read more »
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