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Summary: Stop talking when a student is being disruptive. That will often curtail such behavior. Learn how to manage a college classroom by employing silence from a professional speaker and communications instructor in this free video.
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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more
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Questions & AnswersThere are some other tactics that you can use to manage your classroom when disruptive behavior happens. You know we've talked about all the preventative things, but now what do we do when it happens anyway? And depending on where you teach, the chances are, even with a contract, even with a syllabus, even with verbal reminders, disruptive behavior will occur. Some of my favorite things that I find to be most effective: First of all: silence. I just stop talking and it doesn't take very long for the students to realize "Ooh. She's not talking. She's going to wait until we finish talking." I find that to be so much more effective than trying to yell over the students, trying to teach while they're talking, trying to get their attention; I simply stop talking. And I have that ability to give that look to the students, like they had better be quiet right now and that is usually very very effective. That's one strategy that you can use when students are disruptive.
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