Posts Tagged ‘classroom management strategies’
January 9 - The Syllabus as a Classroom Management Tool
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
Complaints about incivility in the classroom are not new, but most faculty believe incivility is on the rise. Couple that with our litigious society, and it’s no wonder that one of the most important skills faculty need today is classroom management.
October 17 - Managing Student Discipline Issues Legally and Effectively
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
One of the key issues facing every faculty member these days is classroom management—maintaining appropriate discipline without alienating students or compromising the course. Would you like to get better at handling discipline problems, or preventing them altogether? What about avoiding liability issues?
July 19 - Dealing with Students Who Test Your Patience
By: Rob Kelly in Effective Classroom Management
Difficult students are a potential problem for every faculty member. This is why it’s important to learn ways to deal with inappropriate or disruptive student behavior. In an email interview with The Teaching Professor, Brian Van Brunt, director of the Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University, and Perry Francis, professor of counseling at Eastern Michigan University, addressed some of the key issues involving these types of students.
June 10 - 23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
For the new college teacher, it is best to learn from those who have been there. In 23 Practical Strategies to Help New Teachers Thrive, you will learn the tips and techniques that have proven successful for experienced faculty, and explore how they can be used and adapted in your own classes.
May 13 - What Should I Do When a Student Challenges My Authority
By: Mary Bart in 20 Minute Mentor, Classroom Management
What Should I Do When a Student Challenges my Authority? Program includes a CD with the video presentation, plus supplemental materials, PowerPoint slides, and complete transcript • $99 Students can challenge your authority in all sorts of ways. Some are overt (is he actually snoring?!), and some are not (that gentle pitter-pat you hear is
April 29 - Students Who Are Chronically Late to Class
By: Bonnie Snyder in Effective Classroom Management
Students who display a passive-aggressive personality style may do so in a variety of ways … from chronic tardiness to sleeping in class. Let’s look at the student who’s always running late. As you know, some students are late to class on a regular basis, and in doing so are probably displaying a form of resistance or defiance—and it is wise to see it as such.
December 13 - Tips for Restoring Classroom Civility
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
Most people, when they conceive of hell, conjure up an image of a subterranean inferno to which sinners are forever consigned to an afterlife of endless suffering and punishment. But according to Dr. Gerald Amada, author of Coping with the Disruptive College Student: A Practical Model, hell also can take many temporal forms, especially in the world of academia.
October 27 - Why Being a Student Made Me a Better Teacher
By: Vickie Kelly, EdD in Effective Teaching Strategies
Congratulations! You’ve accepted a position as a professor, instructor, or lecturer. Now comes the hard part. Unless you have spent your professional career studying curriculum, instruction, assessment, online learning, classroom management, and the many other topics with which you now face, you have stepped into a whole new world. Your subject matter expertise or technical knowledge that got you the job is simply not enough.
October 6 - Three Simple Keys to Effective Classroom Management
By: Monique Perry in Effective Classroom Management
Fall semester is well underway at my institution. Prior to classes starting I had the opportunity to have lunch with a couple of fellow faculty members. During our lunch, we discussed many topics related to the upcoming term, but classroom management emerged as a common point of contention.
September 13 - Five Techniques for Dealing with Problem Students and Other Classroom Challenges
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
James is a first-year student who is enjoying the freedoms of being out from underneath his parents’ rules. He’s an average student academically, but is often a distraction in class. He perpetually texting or surfing the web, and gentle reminders from the professor to pay attention fail to keep him on task for long. His behavior is having a negative effect on other students in the class and the professor is reaching his breaking point. The final straw came when the professor noticed James was wearing headphones while taking an exam.
