Posts Tagged ‘managing student expectations’
April 6 - First Assignment Helps Establish Expectations
By: Jennifer Garrett in Effective Classroom Management
There is a lot to cover on the first day of class. You establish procedures and convey expectations. You review the syllabus and, if you’re teaching a lab, safety protocol. You also spend some time teaching some material. While you might not make an assignment on the first day, you still should use some time on the first day to talk about your expectations for students’ work and how you assign grades.
November 9 - When Faculty and Student Expectations Collide
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
“It is a story replicated in many history classrooms during the semester. Students have once again done poorly on an assignment or exam. Their essays are the sites of massive, undifferentiated data dumps. They have paraphrased primary sources instead of analyzing them, ignored argumentation, confused past and present, and failed completely to grasp the ‘otherness’ of a different era.” (p. 1211)
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.
