student monitoring
I have found in my experience when students try to float to the back of the room they try more than less to remove themselves form the radar emotionally. I conduct student monitoring the first day back to front
Greetings Pam!
I agree that smaller rooms are more conducive to working in semi-circles. However, I encourage facilitator/instructor moving about the room and giving total attention to the person who is speaking. This makes a student feel like they and their opinions and learning are important.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
I agree. If the room is smaller I think a semi-circle works well also.
I strongly agree.I will spend my entire class period walking around the class engadging with all the students, sometimes I will sit by the student in the back of the class and ask questions just to see if they are engaged in what is being taught.
I couldn't agree more. Whenever I am lecturing, I walk the entire classroom and during lab, I am very aware of engaging the back row as well as the front. I also have moved seating assignments in classes where I have found the back row to be disruptive or not fully engaged in the learning process.
I try to move students to the front when I have a lecture to give. In my opinion when there is a large classroom with 15 people in it, everyone should be in the front.
I agree. I will walk around to the back of the room, make eye contact with these students and ask them questions to ensure they become engaged in the session.
I have found that students that sit toward the back are the ones who need the most monitoring. They are the one who when they think that they can get away with engaging in activities that are not part of those of the classroom. I consistently move throughout the classroom to keep these activities to a minimum
i also move to the back of the room and I use the roster to ask questions. each day I change my tactics when using the roster. I also allow the students to pull numbers, those with odd number in one group and so forth. I keep a list of questions asked and answered and the students know that I assign points.
I spend my whole day walking around the class and talking to students. I feel that on day one the students that try to "hide" in the back eventually realize that they are not in fact hiding at all and within the first few days they have become a lot more open during class both during instruction time and lab work.
I totally agree. I accept volunteers for questions and dialogue, but I always monitor who hasn't participated by checking the rooster and asking aloud who haven't I heard from today? So, it's no surpise to a student that hasn't commented because all the students know I expect them to contribute.
My experience is that those students who tend to sit in the back need the most monitoring. When I'm at a point in my class where students are completing exercises on the board or something, I stand in the back of the class. I also announce that I tend to ask questions of those sitting in the back. This also let's them know that they can't hide from class participation.
I always strive to move around the room when I can, unless I am doing some sort of direct lab experience
