Get Your Students Hired
Inattentive students has always been an issue when we taught in the classroom. Now with online teaching I am finding the problem to be expediental. This term since October, I have had the highest failure rate. I think students are having a hard time managing their time and staying focused. Any suggestions?
Having only been an instructor for a couple of months, this is the most relevant course to my situation Iv'e taken. THis knowlwge will come in very helpful with my next class of students.
There are various faces to the students in each class: unprepared one, ready to quit, apple polishing, blamers, inattentive and center stage. Each type of student needsthe appropriate support and encouragement to help redirect and engage students in learning.
I really needed to learn this information on managing challenging behavior of students. I have a hard time managing some of the behavior in classes. I learned how to manage students who are inattentive by calling on them more or making them responsible for after a lecture by using a minute paper. What a good way for students to summarize what they learned and also provide motivation for them to learn and pay attention. I have had an occasional student who misbehaved during class and I had a little difficulty with dealing with this issue. I know that first I have to check myself first. Am I offering content that is not interesting or relevant? And then, I can always approach these students to understand what they are dealing with and help prevent them from dropping out of the course. Great information!
It was good to know I was on the right track with students disengaged and wanting to give up can be remotivated and inspired to finish the course. I will try using the five-colored card with my most active student because I was having a hard time controlling that kind of behavior without hampering that person's class participation.
The module gave so much information about the types of students that I will encounter over my teaching career. I found many descriptions along with solutions and techniques to be very helpful. The use of the course syllabus seems like a great place to start with listing goals and expectations. The expectations will set the stage for what you want from the students and what you plan on giving back.
It's a great idea to have the Blue Cards and the Observer, which serves purposes of Center Stage students as well as the inattentive student.
Taking the time to understand where the behavior is coming from? is a need for attention or a distraction from something else?
I like the concept of summarizing and random calling to present their summary to get students to be more attentive and prepare.
I learned that people are people and that many of the approaches used for younger sstudents can work with older ones, but need to be modified for the adult leaner. I would love to see the Harvard Business School videos in their entirety. They seem to stop just as they get interesting....
I like the use it wisely card approach. over the years, i have had students who monopolize the class. i have usually been successful in having them hold on to their thoughts and give classmates a chance, while thanking them for being so engaged! i also tend to do a lot of small group discussins and projects to move students around, get them thinking and not drifting away from the content. I like to know the student's names and call on them directly to answer questins. In the computer classroom, I request monitors to be turned off to decrease distration by the student and those around them.
As far as looking at students who look at their phones or tablets in class, I welcome it. So in teaching programming, I teach how to create an app on a mobile device like a phone or tablet. If students have phones, and it;s now part of their arsenal of technology, I incorporate it into the lesson. If you don't teach programming, there are many apps already created so you can have the students use the phones to enhance their education rather than as a distraction. Telling a student not to bring or use their mobile computing devices is like telling a math student not to bring in their calculators. Infact, there are better versinos of engineering and graphing calculator apps than the actual calculators themselves. Phones have faster processors and calcuations through a virtual app still run circles around the hardware utlized in most calculators. Don't look at edcuation as the old "Cells and Bells" ( an architectual term for designing schools) structure.
communication with the student, communication with parents, communication with coaches, fair but equal,
This Course helps the teacher to be able to keep the students engaged in the classroom.
classroom discussions are important to involve inattentive students to participate and engage with the rest of the class
Follow-up on assignments.
I found the section of follow up assignments to be reflective regarding reading material. I struggled with my first weeks of teaching and getting students to read. I found it challenging as a student to read but quickly discovered as a professor how important it is stay up to date on reading material. I would like to develop this area by coordinating quizzes or assignments based in reading material
Minute papers
I also found the minute papers to be a good alternative to help with engagement. Often times, my students were frustrated because I didn't give them a study guide. I think the minute papers would be a more interactive way of teaching them how to develop more conside methods of mastering material with use of the minute papers.
Dealing with challenging students is hard. Some require extra attention, while others want more hands off. I have one student who has to come in and tell me everything that happened since we last had class. If I try to cut the story short I see a complete shut down. Others require complements and notoriety. Each student is different.
making discussions open to all students invites discussions as well as increases good behavior. When you have students having difficulty reach out to them to find out what exactly they are having difficulty with and if there is something you can do as an instructor to help change that.
Definitely good information!!! I really like the idea of helping students by encouraging them and not shaming them. Positive reinforcement definitely is better than negative comments