tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post2422464393441479054..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: Classroom Management, Crazy-StyleDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-54818035160952229562008-10-26T22:38:00.000-04:002008-10-26T22:38:00.000-04:00Thank you for responding to my question! This is g...Thank you for responding to my question! This is good stuff and an interesting read.<BR/><BR/>The most irritating student who was in one of my classes was a guy who would (a) interrupt the female students (b) change the subject completely and (c) just in general talk way too darn much.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if someone talked to him about the interrupting thing but I noticed that he did it and then I noticed that some of the other women in the class almost never talked. I had made up my mind that the next time he did it I was going to call him out directly -- but after that, he never did it again.<BR/><BR/>He still did the changing the subject thing - it seems like for him that was next best thing to interrupting - but I got pretty aggressive about changing it right back when it was my turn to talk. "To get back to what Susan was saying..."<BR/><BR/>So in the end, I guess we worked it out. Though, all along I was disappointed that the prof never told him to quit being a jerk. Unfortunately I did not have the impression that the prof noticed how rude the student was being, especially since he was so selective in his rudeness (he tended to engage with what male students said at least sometimes, while totally ignoring what the female students said and going on to talk about something completely different).humanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09557354324364735817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-26008046468508351072008-10-25T20:29:00.000-04:002008-10-25T20:29:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting on this! I've been thinking ab...Thanks for posting on this! I've been thinking about this a lot recently, mostly because of a nasty situation a few weeks back.<BR/><BR/>Long story short, we have in-class debates every so often where I split the class in half and they have to argue one side of a position. This last one got really competitive (not in a good way) and some of the guys got really aggressive. When one very self-assured girl took them on, she was accused of being a bitch. Thankfully she didn't hear the comment, but it was kind of a nightmare. I talked to the whole class on Wednesday about what we can do collectively to make these debate days comfortable for everyone. It went pretty well, but we'll have to see how the next one goes.The History Enthusiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920472487193649652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-43553891225537812162008-10-25T09:41:00.000-04:002008-10-25T09:41:00.000-04:00Yeah, it is scapegoatish... and I think that impul...Yeah, it is scapegoatish... and I think that impulse comes from insecurity, too, of a different kind than the PDS.<BR/><BR/>You know, I think I'm so attentive to drawing quiet students out because I *so* was never a quiet student. When I first started teaching, it was bizarre to me that some students didn't talk, and I thought that it was something wrong with my teaching. Now, I realize some students need different ways of talking than others, and I realize that not everybody is terribly comfortable just blurting out answers in an impromptu way. In other words, I think I might be more sensitive to this stuff precisely because it's not who I was as a student, and I feel like if I'm not careful, I could easily become one of those profs who just ignores those quieter or less assertive students.Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-20737124072382726582008-10-25T06:53:00.000-04:002008-10-25T06:53:00.000-04:00Putting on my psychology hat here - the situation ...Putting on my psychology hat here - the situation in your lecture is scapegoat-ish. Typical group behaviour - the group "needs" a scapegoat and someone "volunteers" to be that scapegoat by some dumba** behaviour that is annoying.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, sounds like you do a stellar job of handling it - wish I had had more profs who were as aware of classroom dynamics and drawing out quieter students.Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03185856683761789420noreply@blogger.com