Class 12: Managing Classroom Dynamics

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Class 12 Managing Classroom Dynamics

• Mike Ryan
• Pusheng Zhang
• Nov 18, 2003

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Agenda

• Introduction (5 min)
• Goals
• Results of poll
• Large group discussion on homework (15 min)
• Role playing for problematic scenarios of
  classrooms in small groups (15 min)
• Large group discussion (20 min)
• Summary and Evaluation (5 min)

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Classroom Dynamics

• Goals
• Become aware of common classroom problems
• Discuss the strategies to prevent and deal with
  common class classroom problems

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Poll

• What's the most problematic scenario in a
  classroom based on your experience?
• A. disruptive students
• B. grade changes
• C. talkative students
• D. dominant students
• E. grade grubber
• F. inattentive students
• G. Others

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Most Problematic Students

• Talkative Student
• Disruptive Student
• Inattentive Student
• Dominant Student

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Role Playing

• Small Group Activity (15 min)
• Role Playing (5-7 min)
• Discussion (8-10 min)
• Guideline
• Find whose birthday is the closest to November 18
  will be the instructor in the scenario.
• Proceeding clockwise antagonist, observer, and
  recorder

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Large Group Discussion

• Problematic Scenarios
• Strategies
• What works?
• What dont work?
• Open discussion

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Summary

• Address common classroom problems
• Discuss strategies to prevent and deal with these
  problems
• Role playing
• Small group and large group discussion

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Other resources

• Managing the Classroom and Relating to Students
  http//www.psu.edu/celt/PST/managing.html
• When New Teachers Meet the Classroom Terrorist
  http//www.clt.cornell.edu/campus/teach/grad/carls
  on/terrorist.html
• Classroom Management
• http//www.crlt.umich.edu/tscm.html
• Chicago handbook for Teachers A Practical Guide
  to the College Classroom. By A. Brinkley, C.
  Fleming, and E. Rothschild, U. of Chicago Press,
  ISBN 0226075125, 1999
• Managing hot Moments in the Classroom
• http//bokcenter.fas.harvard.edu/docs/hotmoments.
  html

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Thank You!