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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: Having students sign a contract that contains the rules and consequences for breaking them may help prevent some common disruptions. Learn how to manage a college classroom by creating a contract with students 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 thing that I have found to be very effective in classroom management, and I do this some semesters, and I do it in certain courses, because certain courses and certain semesters, seem to be a little more indicative of having problems. I create a contract with my students, and I give it to them immediately after I have gone over the syllabus, especially in a course like public speaking, where you continue to see the same things, every semester. Like on the day of the first speech is due, half the class is absent. They all mysteriously got sick, or all of their cars broke down on the same day. Well, I know those things are going to happen. I see them coming every semester, so I have created a contract, especially for my public speaking class, which lays out the rules, and lays out the consequences. You cannot be absent the day a speech is due. If you are, it is my discretion, whether you will get to give that speech or not, or whether you will get a zero. You have to make it crystal clear. The students sign the contract, if they agree to all the terms of the course. Then I have a leg to stand on, when the first speech comes up, and ten students are absent. I can pull out their contracts. Now, remember this contract. Remember what you agreed to. Remember the rules of the course, and that cuts down on a lot of the arguing, with a student. A lot of the imaginary excuses that you have to deal with, with the student, so think about doing a contract. At least try it for a semester, and see how it works."
eHow Article: Classroom Management: Create a Contract
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