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Four tips for classroom management in college that I pulled from my recent paper.
Stop calling it office hours. Students think office hours means it’s time that you are busy working in the office. I have had success calling it discussion hour. Especially important for first gen students and to avoid the hidden curriculum
Be available. It takes a lot of courage for students to visit your office for the first time. If you aren’t there when you say you will be, they are less likely to come back again
Come to class early. Not to just check your tech but to connect with students and their interest. Consider a pre-semester survey to learn more about your students.
Be enthusiastic about the topic you teach. Excitement and passion are contagious. If your students are disengaged, ask yourself if you seem disengaged too. We have to be real, the past two years have been tough on all of us. Let’s find our spark and bring it to class.
Want more interventions? Check out my paper on classroom management and increasing the sense of belonging
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220485.2022.2075507
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