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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.

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 »

September 2, 2009

Assumptions about Setting the Right Classroom Climate

For quite some time now I’ve been interested in a widely held set of assumptions faculty make about the need to assert control at the beginning of a course. The ... Read more »

July 31, 2009

Activities that Get Students Ready to Learn

Starting a lecture can be challenging: getting everyone seated, attentive, and ready to move forward with the content can take several minutes. I have found that sometimes it feels abrupt ... Read more »

July 6, 2009

How to Use the First Day of Class to Set the Tone for Entire Semester

On top of everything college faculty are responsible for, there’s one that may be easy to overlook or even deem as unnecessary: Teaching students how to be students. Do so ... Read more »

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