Posts Tagged ‘classroom management strategies’
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.
September 2 - Cell Phones in the Classroom: Is It Time to Reconsider Your Policy?
By: Karen Eifler in Trends in Higher Education
My class had just finished covering three chalkboards with a rather dazzling array of concept clusters, illustrations, and links among disparate ideas. Clearly, a lot of learning had been generated. As I picked up the eraser to clear the board, I mentioned it was too bad that Chelsea and Eric (who were absent) had missed this vibrant discussion.
June 24 - Classroom Management 102: Working with Difficult Students
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
From minor annoyances to major disruptions, difficult students have no shortage of ways to test professors. This unique seminar includes four video demonstrations of typical college classroom problems along with recommended responses, followed by interactive discussion of suggested strategies.
March 26 - Four Tips for Dealing with Difficult Students
By: Jason Ebbeling and Brian Van Brunt, EdD in Effective Classroom Management
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 stance. Anything is possible when faculty have faith in the students they teach. Learning starts with a dedicated teacher interested in meeting the challenge of how to present content in a way that successfully navigates the barriers students erect.
March 23 - Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classroom
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
In a perfect world, college students are always eager, well disciplined, and respectful. Of course, you don’t teach in a perfect world, you teach in the real world. This white paper looks at unacceptable student behaviors and classifies them into seven easy-to-recognize styles, along with recommended approaches suited to each type’s idiosyncrasies.
March 23 - What Students Expect from Instructors, Other Students
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
Some years back The Teaching Professor featured an article highlighting Mano Singham’s wonderful piece describing how he moved away from a very authoritarian, rule-centered syllabus (reference below). It’s one of my very favorite articles—I reference it regularly in presentations, and it appears on almost every bibliography I distribute.
January 29 - Conditions Associated with Classroom Conflict
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Classroom Management
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 out of their inattentiveness and passivity. They arrive late, leave early, talk during class, and don’t even bother to hide their boredom.
January 13 - Making the Most of the First Day of Class
By: Rob Kelly in Effective Classroom Management
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 of the first day of class – not the least of which involves setting the tone for the course.
December 4 - Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Teaching & Learning
One of the most challenging tasks instructors face is keeping students engaged. Building Student Engagement: 15 Strategies for the College Classroom will help you meet that challenge while ensuring your classroom is a positive and productive learning environment.
October 1 - A Smart Way to Handle Student Excuses
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Classroom Management
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 assignment on time, or doing what some other policy or procedure may stipulate. Not having the wisdom of Solomon, most faculty struggle to fairly adjudicate between the real and unreal reasons offered for noncompliance.
