How to Manage a College Classroom

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Are you faced with the daunting task of teaching a class full of young minds? Learn how to manage a college classroom from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video series.

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Challenges of Classroom Management
Sometimes students are required to take classes that they do not want to. What's a teacher to do? Learn about the challenges of managing a college classroom from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Call Absent Students
An effective strategy to increase attendance is to call absent students. Learn how to manage a college classroom by calling absent students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Challenge Prideful Students
Challenge students who think that they already know the subject to take their knowledge to the next level. Learn how to manage a college classroom by challenging proud students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Claim Your Space
One way that can help prevent as well as help you handle disruptive behavior is to claim your classroom space. Learn how to manage a college classroom by claiming your space from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Complaints About Lack of Time
Time is essential and crucial and difficult for every student today with their numerous commitments. Learn how to manage a college classroom by dealing with student complaints about time from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Compliment Positive Students
Give compliments to the student who is doing the right thing. Learn how to manage a college classroom by complimenting positive students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Consequences
In addition to establishing rules to manage the disruptive students, it is essential that you have consequences for breaking the rules. Learn how to manage a college classroom by having consequences for breaking rules from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Create a Contract
Having students sign a contract that contains the rules and consequences for breaking them may help prevent some common disruptions. Learn how to manage a college classroom by creating a contract with students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Detach
You have to allow the student to do what the student is going to do, and the student has to take responsibility. Learn how to manage a college classroom by detaching from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Document Disruption
When there is a considerable amount of disruption in your classroom, it is necessary to document it for future reference. Learn how to manage a college classroom by documenting disruption from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Don't Jump to Conclusions
You may think that certain students do not like you. You very likely may be wrong about them. Learn how to manage a college classroom by not jumping to conclusions from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Don't Take it Personally
It is real important with students, or even entire classes, that you feel don't like you to not take it personally. Learn how to manage a college classroom by not taking things personally from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Encourage Students to Contact You
Having open lines of communication with students will only help students take ownership of the course. Learn how to manage a college classroom by encouraging students to contact you from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Engage Disruptive Students
Another tactic for dealing with disruptive behavior is, when it is happening, immediately engage the student. Learn how to manage a college classroom by engaging disruptive students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Examine Standards
Another thing that you need to do with regards to failing students is examine your standards. Learn how to manage a college classroom by examining your standards from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Expensive Text Complaints
Encourage students to buy their books and to keep them as reference guides for the future. Learn how to manage a college classroom by dealing with complaints about expensive texts from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Former Student Evaluations
Reading evaluations from formerly resistant students whom you've won over may help current students have a change of heart. Learn how to manage a college classroom by reading former student evaluations from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Grading Strategies
Develop a simple grading system and make it clear to the students. Learn how to manage a college classroom by developing grading strategies from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Group Disruptive Students
Sometimes it is effective to group disruptive students together. Learn how to manage a college classroom by grouping disruptive students together from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Journals
Having the students keep a journal that they turn it at some point will encourage them to read the textbook. Learn how to manage a college classroom by assigning journaling from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Let Students Teach
By requiring student to teach from the textbook, you will increase the chances that your students will read the texts. Learn how to manage a college classroom by having students teach from the textbook from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Liking & Benefiting
Students may not like a course but they can still benefit from it. Learn how to manage a college classroom by knowing the difference between liking a class and benefiting from it from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Link Assignments to Other Classes
Give assignments that students could possibly link to other assignments in other courses. Learn how to manage a college classroom by linking assignments to other classes from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Meet With Failing Students
It's very difficult for students to keep up with their work load. Learn how to manage a college classroom by meeting with failing students from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Classroom Management: Self-evaluate
Take a look at what's been working and not working in your courses. Learn how to manage a college classroom by self-evaluation from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.

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Summary: Teaching in a college classroom can be quite a challenge these days. Students come from all manner of backgrounds. They have different experiences in education. They have been raised differently. Some arrive at college ready to learn and actively participate in their classes. Others show up with different priorities that do not always include excelling in the classroom. How is a professor to manage all these different personalities, priorities and commitments?

In this free video series, a professional speaker and communications instructor will teach you how to manage a college classroom. You will get helpful tips on such things as selling the course, dealing with disruptive students, encouraging positive students and gathering evaluations. You will also learn how to choose and use textbooks, excel at interpersonal communication with students and develop grading strategies.

About the Expert

Expert: Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is a college professor of public speaking, interpersonal communications, voice and diction, and business speech. Goodwin is the author of "Be Delicious: The Art of Voice & Movement Integration."