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Summary: Sometimes it is effective to group disruptive students together. Learn how to manage a college classroom by grouping disruptive students together 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 sometimes works with disruptive behavior students, is to put them in groups. Have students work in groups, and if you have a cluster of students who tend to be disruptive, you definitely do not want them working together, or maybe you definitely do, and I'll tell you the two reasons why. If you split them up, and you've assigned groups around the classroom, and you've split the disruptive students up. Those students have to have some accountability, in their new group. The new group members who are not their little buddies in the class, will encourage them to participate. Encourage them not to be disruptive. Encourage them to do good work, because that's the standard of the group, or you can take a different tactic, and you can let all the disruptive students work together, and if there's a time limit on the activity, nine times out of ten, they won't make it, so every other group gets an A, because they were doing their work, and the disruptive group gets a D, because they weren't prepared, and so that is always an option, is to place them into groups."
eHow Article: Classroom Management: Group Disruptive Students