Get Your Students Hired
I am still learning how to manage distracted students or students who use cellphone or iPad during the classroom section. This educational section is significantly helping me to control those activities.
Every type of student needs to be heard and once the teacher has heard and gotten to know the student, the teacher is best positioned to help the student and in fact use the student's strength to help them become successful in the course.
I liked the Minute papers idea. It also lets me know how well I conveyed the information for the day.
great advice on how to deal with center stage students that want to control the lecture or want to talk about things that is unrelevant in the class.
I have a few pupils who are more inattentive than others for the duration of each session. Providing gentle reminder as to proper time management is a great idea to refocus the pupil. I also like the idea of providing each student with a particular number of cards to use during Q&As thus allowing other students to participate. I have encountered students who will use the 'apple' method verses taking responsibility of his/her success and performing the work. The ideas and instruction style in the section were useful and I am ready to apply them in the classroom.
It was very informative and interesting to see how many different types of students and personalities there are. It will keep me more aware of this, especially the first week of the term. My thoughts are to keep a journal for myself, and keep notes.
As an instrucrot you need to make sure that you include all of the students in discussions and activities. It ican be easy to let the center-stage student take over, so you need to make a sure that you are not overlooking the quieter students. There are many techniquies that you can use as an instructor to round out the quiet and outspoken students.
Information on how to control and manage difficult or out spoken students in the class including information and strategies to control the class.
I had a center stage student this semester in an 8 am class. I did enjoy having them in the class and often their energy helped perk up the other students which was helpful. I do think incorporating the observer idea would have helped keep some of his energy in check but would also have channeled it into a useful feature of the class itself.
Sometimes,letting students know that some of the info they will recieve ir outdated, yet they are responsibble for it any, Explaining that it may be founadtional to later information helps too.
There are multiple ways to help challenging students within the classroom envirnments. Some you can play up to help the student themselves as well as the class as a whole and others you will need to take a more direct approach and set boundaries. All have good and bad attributtes and you shoud not just but assist and insit when needed. They will not only learn to handle themselves better but also improve you as a teacher for future classes.
I have two students that likes to be Center Stage. I plan to use the suggestion of using as an observer at intervals during theory class and class discussions. The suggestion is a GReat idea and will help me in future class lectures.
Good play on the disruptive student. As a new instructor, I've found them to be 50/50 when it comes to valuable contributers. Usually their peers usually do a great job of providing feedback on their own about it. As far as the couple of times I've observed any kind of major unacceptable outburst, I have let it play out to an extent, and then expressed my position on the input they were giving at that time; and at that point I didn't have to remind them that our conduct greatly defines our character to those around us. And so as they experienced that awkward embarrassment, I downplayed any lash that they might have felt, reassured them that it's all good and we are all going through different things in life. After that I am sure to include them more, but make sure they understand that I attend to everyone else in class with as much priority as them.
I must say the one video about ambiguous behavior speaks volumes. How many days have we ruined and not have even been aware of doing so?
Being observant from day 1 is helpful to determine who may need encouragement, who needs to be reigned in and who might be manipulative. Realizing these things early allows intervention that can help the students all progress and keep the class moving forward.
I've learned different strategies to keep students engaged and nondisruptive in class.
Movement can be an easy way to place myself near the inattentive student to regain their attention, distractions and observe if they're bored with the lecture or if they're simply not understanding the content. It can be an easy and non embarressing way to address a student's behavior.