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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.
July 25 - Hate Springs Eternal: Teaching in a Disharmonious Classroom
By: Simon Yisrael Feuerman in Effective Classroom Management
A few weeks ago I did what professors all over the land did: I logged my students’ grades and handed them in. This capped the end of an academic year in which I have never been more reviled and hated. In fact, this semester I gave my students permission to hate me to the fullest, and I in turn allowed myself the drunken freedom of “hating” them as well.
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.
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.
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.
March 9 - Winning Students’ Hearts and Minds the Latest Campus Safety Approach
By: Bonnie Snyder in Effective Classroom Management
Campus security is not normally an issue that is discussed in conjunction with faculty members. Typically, campus safety is relegated to the purview of administrators and campus police. Few professors receive substantial training on ways to enhance campus safety through what occurs in their classrooms. This view needs to change in order to respond to current realities and to incorporate the recommendations of the latest research on campus safety.
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.
November 23 - Teacher Anger: What to do When You’re Reaching the Breaking Point
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Classroom Management
Do you ever reach a point where you’ve just had it with your students—they still aren’t following directions you’ve repeatedly delivered, they’re still talking not so quietly in the back of the room, and too many of them are still turning in work that has been dashed off at the last minute? So what do you do? March into class and more or less let them have it?
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.
July 8 - Let’s Take a Break
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Classroom Management, Teaching Professor Blog
How about a regularly scheduled two-to three-minute break in the middle of class? John A. Olmsted III recommends it for the following reasons: 1) it provides a change of pace and lets students recharge tired brains; 2) it can be used to get students involved with the content; and 3) it can be designed to
