ITL Webinars

Promoting Classroom Civility and Working with Disruptive Students
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Friday, February 20, 2009
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Sonoma State—Face-to-Face Session
East Bay and San Francisco State—Webinar

Facilitator: Dr. Cynthia Desrochers
CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning, Director

The erosion of classroom decorum affects our success as teachers, as well as our students’ success as learners. The following ideas will be discussed and some solutions offered:

• The root of student incivility can often be traced to student will, skill, or ill
• Some reported categories of student incivility
• Awareness of faculty actions that might inadvertently encourage student incivility
• Variability in faculty expectations and our PIST indicator
• Approaches for promoting student civility
• Leveraging the positive is often the first step

Resource: Classroom Civility, Thriving in Academe, February 2009.