Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation

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Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation

• Before We Get Started
• Sign in on the computers
• Turn in your Student Information Card
• Take hot pink survey form out of packet
• Complete Pre-Survey side of the form

Sponsored by Center for Instructional Excellence
(CIE) Committee for the Education of Teaching
Assistants (CETA)
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Facilitators

• Name
• Department

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Managing the Classroom
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GoalTo be able to recognize and handle student
behavior that is disruptive to learning in the
classroom.
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Objectives

• Define disruptive classroom behavior.
• Identify at least five types of disruptive
  classroom behavior.
• Identify strategies for handling/minimizing
  disruptive classroom behavior.

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Disruptive Classroom Behaviors

• Introducing
• Tom Turpin
• Professor of Entomology
• The Bug Man

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Disruptive Classroom Behaviors

• Arriving late
• Eating in class
• Talking in class
• Tending to personal needs
• Making inappropriate comments
• Engaging in activities not related to class
• Sleeping
• Leaving early

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Question
Disruptive Behaviors

• Arriving late / leaving early
• Talking in class
• Engaging in activities not related to class

• What do these behaviors have in common?
• In what way(s) are these behaviors disruptive to
  learning in the classroom?

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Definition

• Disruptive classroom behavior is behavior that
  creates a less than desirable learning experience
  in the classroom.

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Question
Disruptive Behaviors

• Arriving late
• Eating in class
• Talking in class
• Tending to personal needs
• Making inappropriate comments
• Engaging in activities not related to class
• Sleeping
• Leaving early

• In what way(s) is this behavior disruptive to
  learning in the classroom?
• How would you handle this problem if it happened
  in your classroom?
• How can this problem be prevented?

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Tips for Handling Disruptive Behavior

• Check out page 3 in handout
• Prevention is key
• Decide what is disruptive to you and inform your
  class, orally and in writing
• Enforce rules that you establish
• Handle problems in least severe way possible first

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Before We Conclude

• Complete Post-Survey item 4