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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: Talk to your students early on, maybe even the first day of class, about all the benefits of the course. Learn how to manage a college classroom by selling the course 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
"OK, the first thing we want to talk about that you will; you will definitely encounter this at some point or another with one or possibly more students: students who are resisting the course, or feel like they don't need the course. And there are a lot of, I encounter it every semester. Students who don't understand why they need the course, or they're resisting the course for a number of reasons. So there's some strategies that you want to take on and a lot of them you want to do at the beginning of the semester. The first is: Sell the course. Now what I mean by sell the course is: talk to your students early on, maybe even the first day of class about all the benefits of the course. Sometimes the students have no idea of what the course is even about. So you want to sell it to them. "You're going to learn this, this, this, this and this." Tell them about all the great things they're going to learn but then you want to take it one step further. Not only sell the things that you're going to learn but sell the ways, in the future, that the students can apply the things that they learn in your course. Sometimes they can't see beyond that. "Well, how is this relevant to me in life? How is this relevant to me in my job?" So you need to take those things and sell them along with the benefit the student is going to get in the real world."
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