Out of Control Cornell Instructor

monydad
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:08:42 +0000

“If students are being annoyed by other students in a classroom, they typically aren’t shy about dealing with it themselves.”

that has not been my experience.

" Unlike high school teachers, college professors usually don’t deal with classroom management and behavior issues. "

Most aren’t called to do so, to the same degree as in high school, because their students are ususally more mature than high school students. In my experience, when this proves not to be the case, some do deal with it, some don’t- sometimes to the detriment of those in the class who care. I think profs get less classroom training than high school teachers do.

“You can’t even HEAR the audio on the track so how would you know how disruptive the yawn is?”

A couple people have said something like this, and we must have very different hearing. I hear the “yawn” at 10 seconds in, then I hear students in the class giggiling about it from 10 seconds to 12 seconds in, before the prof says his first words about it. The giggling proves it was disruptive. I don’t know why you don’t hear this, it is there on the video.