Lecture Slides for Sale (Library Central, Langara College)
The web has made it easier than ever before to share content. For some of us, this is both a blessing and a curse. In recent years, post-secondary copyright offices have seen a surge in inquiries from instructors who are concerned that their teaching materials are being used online without their permission.
Teaching Mistakes from the College Classroom (Faculty Focus Special Report)
Several faculty describe their early teacher foibles and what they did to put things right, including the problem with being too nice, dealing with student complaints, managing the easy A expectation, and much, much more.
10 Effective Classroom Management Techniques Every Faculty Member Should Know (Faculty Focus Special Report)
Contributor provide tips and ideas to manage the classroom. Topics include creative use of the syllabus, classroom conflict, handling student excuses, behaviour contracts and more.
Tips for Encouraging Student Participation in Classroom Discussion (Faculty Focus Special Report)
These short articles include a range of topics from encouraging the non-participator to managing the over participator. Must reading for all!
Dear Student: No, I Won’t Change the Grade You Deserve
Stacy Patton – Senior Enterprise Reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education
All faculty have experienced the student who “worked so hard” and wants a better grade. This article provides a number of humorous (and perhaps irreverent) responses to that age old request.
College Quarterly
Winter 2006 – Volume 9 Number 1
Managing the College Classroom: Perspectives from an Introvert and an Extrovert by Stephen W. Braden & Deborah N. Smith
Abstract
One of the biggest challenges facing college instructors in the 21st century is classroom misbehavior. The authors propose that how one handles classroom incivility is a matter of personality type. One of the authors is an extrovert; the other an introvert. The authors discuss personality theory, general classroom management, how to identify student problems, ascertain the cause of student problems and provide an appropriate solution depending upon one’s personality type. With the right goals, preparation and strategies all types of professors can effectively deal with disruptive students.
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Teaching Strategies: Incivility in the College Classroom
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
Summary
Broadly defined, classroom incivility is any action that interferes with a harmonious and cooperative learning atmosphere in the classroom. Uncivil student behavior not only disrupts and negatively effects the overall learning environment for students but also contributes to instructors’ stress and discontent. The articles in this section describe forms of classroom incivility and ways to reduce disruptive behavior in the college classroom.
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