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Challenges of Classroom Management
Classroom Management: Sell the Course
Classroom Management: Challenge Prideful Students
Classroom Management: Liking & Benefiting
Classroom Management: Former Student Evaluations
Classroom Management: Self-evaluate
Classroom Management: Textbook Quizzes
Classroom Management: Let Students Teach
Classroom Management: Tailor the Text
Classroom Management: Journals
Classroom Management: Meet With Failing Students
Classroom Management: Examine Standards
Classroom Management: Detach
Classroom Management: Don't Jump to Conclusions
Classroom Management: Don't Take it Personally
Classroom Management: Set & Enforce Rules
Classroom Management: Consequences
Classroom Management: Create a Contract
Classroom Management: Silence
Classroom Management: Claim Your Space
Classroom Management: Engage Disruptive Students
Classroom Management: Compliment Positive Students
Classroom Management: Document Disruption
Classroom Management: Group Disruptive Students
Classroom Management: Call Absent Students
Classroom Management: Encourage Students to Contact You
Classroom Management: Complaints About Lack of Time
Classroom Management: Link Assignments to Other Classes
Classroom Management: Expensive Text Complaints
Classroom Management: Use Required Texts
Classroom Management: Shop Around for Texts
Classroom Management: Text-Based Extra Credit
Classroom Management: Grading Strategies
Classroom Management: Student Self-Grading
Summary: Sometimes students are required to take classes that they do not want to. What's a teacher to do? Learn about the challenges of managing a college classroom from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.
Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is a college professor of...read more
Teaching in a college classroom can be quite a challenge these days. Students come from all manner of backgrounds. They have different experiences in education. They have been raised differently. Some arrive at college ready to learn and actively participate in their classes. Others show up with different priorities that do not always include excelling in the classroom. How is a professor to manage all these different personalities, priorities and commitments? In this free video series, a professional speaker and communications instructor will teach you how to manage a college classroom. You will get helpful tips on such things as selling the course, dealing with disruptive students, encouraging positive students and gathering evaluations. You will also learn how to choose and use textbooks, excel at interpersonal communication with students and develop grading strategies.
"Hi there. I'm Tracy Goodwin and I'm the red sweater lady. And today we're going to be talking about how to manage a college classroom. Especially or primarily any kind of speech courses where the students are so resistant to be there. There are actually a lot of things that you will encounter as a college instructor or professor. And if you're new to the game or maybe even if you're not, I have some great tips for helping you solve some of the problems that you're going to face with the students of today. Things ranging from students who don't want to be in your class, who don't find it necessary to take your class, students who wonder what the point of your class is, students who don't want to but the text book, even students who are disruptive in your class, students who are failing. Any kind of issues that you will encounter in the classroom, we're going to talk about today. Because there's some really great ideas and some really specific things that you can do, little trouble shooting ideas that can help you and your students have a much easier semester."
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