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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: Reading evaluations from formerly resistant students whom you've won over may help current students have a change of heart. Learn how to manage a college classroom by reading former student evaluations 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
"Another option that you might want to consider, is evaluations, and when I talk about evaluations in this context, you might want to, at the end of every semester, you get evaluations, and you might want to save your evaluations. Pick two or three of them, that would be applicable to resistant students, and read them on the first day of class. Perhaps a former student has written comments like, I really didn't want to take this class. I thought I didn't need it. I thought it was stupid, but I can't believe how much I learned in this course. Another thing that you can do besides reading evaluations from former students, is actually bring a former student in, to talk to your class, and give them a live evaluation. I'm like you. I thought this was the dumbest class I had to take. I couldn't believe it when they told me in the advising center that I had to have this class, but let me tell you what you're going to learn about. Let me tell you how I've used my skills that I learned in this class, to land a job, or to function in the real world, and a lot of time students will respond to that, because that is their peer level. Oh ok, well you know, the teacher of course, is going to tell me how great the class is, but people who were in the same situation as me, people that I can relate to, are talking about the benefits of the class. Hmm, maybe I'll give this class a chance."
eHow Article: Classroom Management: Former Student Evaluations
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