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Summary: Time is essential and crucial and difficult for every student today with their numerous commitments. Learn how to manage a college classroom by dealing with student complaints about time 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
"Now let's talk for a minute about students who complain that they do not have time to get the work done in your class. Or they don't get the work done and their excuse is they didn't have time. Time is essential and crucial and difficult for every student today because like I said before, they have jobs, they have families, they have, they have all of this stuff. The best way to handle students who say they don't have time is to encourage them that they can't afford not to have time. They don't have time not to have time. And what I mean by that is the things that they will learn in the course, the grade that they will get in the course far outweighs not having the time to get the work done. So encourage them when with time management skills, and encourage them to get this work done because they really can't afford not to. Because maybe they don't have time in this moment but if they fail your course, they will have to retake the entire course and they don't have time for that either. So, put the focus on the positive, the benefits of making time to get the work done."
eHow Article: Classroom Management: Complaints About Lack of Time