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The two statements made here about some students coming in with a sense of entitlement and the one about using common sense really struck a nerve with me. I teach at a for-profit technical education school located in a city with a high population of lower-income students, many of whom see this as a way up out of poverty. I'm glad they're trying to improve their lives and make a better living for themselves and their children, but so many of our students come to us expecting our education philosophy to be the same as in the large public city… >>>
I like the idea of videotaping myself during class; I'm sure I'd see annoying tics that would be distracting to my students. I've had several instructors who repeated certain words or phrases (I hope they were inaware of it) that I found distracting. I remember one time, out of sheer boredom, I started counting how many times a particular instructor repeated the word "again" during a lecture. I quit after about a minute and a half because I was already up to EIGHTY!! Another instructor never "said" anything, he always "indicated," and in my most recent administrator's opinion, everything she… >>>
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I also thought this was a worthwhile course. I realized I have some flaws to correct, and I learned some good language to use for some particularly disruptive students. It sounds counterintuitive to say "If you ignore a disruptive behavior it won't go away - it'll get worsr!" because this is the opposite of how we treat our young children. But I realize now it's true. If I make just a small comment about the rude behavior I see, it WILL stop, but the longer I ignore it, the more it persists.