Posts Tagged ‘disruptive students’
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?
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
October 12 - Three Tips for Handling Disruptive Online Students
By: Susan Ko, PhD in Online Education
Disruptive students, in any teaching and learning environment, are a challenge to manage, but they can be particularly so online. And it may take longer for an instructor to realize that a student is actually being disruptive online, since online communications can be ambiguous and one always wants to give students the benefit of the doubt.
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 8 - Recognizing and Managing Student Aggression
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
Consider the following scenario: A student, clearly upset about receiving a failing grade on the midterm, comes up to you after class and says he wants to retake it. You reply that, as stated in the syllabus, there are no make-up exams. You also remind him of his spotty attendance record. He becomes angry, knocks your papers off the front table, and yells “You’re a terrible professor! The whole class hates you!”
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.
December 17 - Identifying and Managing Classroom Aggression and Violence
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
This video seminar features relevant case studies and examples of how to manage aggression and prevent violence in the classroom. You will learn strategies for handling different types of aggressors, ranging from “the sniper” and “the Sherman tank” to “the exploder” and “the bulldozer.”
Dr. Brian Van Brunt is the Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. He is also a senior trainer in John Byrne’s Aggression Management Program. Dr. Van Brunt currently serves as the president-elect of the American College Counseling Association and recently joined the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM) as an affiliated consultant.
