Classroom Management for the Uni

Classroom Management for the University Classroom

Classroom management is an umbrella term that covers many areas.

It includes establishing a climate for your classroom - the look and feel, conducting your class efficiently - planning and time management, reaching all your students - through your delivery, encouragement, teaching techniques, and maintaining an environment of respect and responsibility and discipline versus chaos.

The following resources might help to make learning more effective in your classrooms.

Working with Difficult Students Having a good relationship with your students and engaging lesson plans are the best foundations for classroom management. However, even the best teacher still experiences students acting out in class.	Making Groupwork Work For many students, the skill of working collaboratively in groups is imperative if they are to succeed not only in your class, but also in their chosen profession.
Top Ten Management Practices These ten practices will help any classroom become more conducive to learning and teaching.	Boomers, Gen-Xers & Millennials: Understanding the New Students This short articles indicates the differences between and among the students who attend our classes
Teaching International Students These tips are taken from A Guide to Teaching International Students by Janette Ryan	Lecturing to Large Classes The ideas shared here, though not directly connected to classroom management issues, will give you some ideas that do help alleviate some negative classroom behavior - cell phone use, text messaging, etc.
Scenes from a Classroom - 10 video scenarios University of Minnesota's video workshop on managing difficult situations in the classroom. The goal of this experience is to help you think through challenging situations you may encounter in the classroom and to see and hear a variety of teaching consultants address the situation.	Classroom Management Lisa Rodriguez, Ph.D. shares some of her ideas on classroom issues and solutions, setting the classroom atmosphere, managing tempo and time, making connections with students, and helping students learn how to be college students.
You Can Handle Them All Even though created for the K-12 arena, many of the 117 behaviors described are prevalent in the university setting. The site describes various behaviors, the effects, the action that can be taken, and the mistakes we sometimes make in handling such behaviors.	Establishing Classroom Rules This brief article describes a way to establish classroom rules that both the professor and students have input. (Dr. Emerson Capps described this to me when I first started teaching at MSU. I have used it since that time - Mary Ann Coe)