Session 2: Syllabus and Classroom Management

Objectives

• modify an existing syllabus to make it learner-centered
• discuss setting expectations for classroom management
• describe at least two classroom management strategies that they were not familiar with previously

Class readings

• Chapters 2, 3, and 4 in Tools for Teaching, 2nd edition, Barbara Gross Davis
• “Classroom incivilities,” Boice, and response
• Results section of “How do faculty experience and respond to classroom conflict?”
  Meyers, Bender, Hill and Thomas

Activities

• Team-led discussion of readings
• Large group discussion on classroom management
• CAT on classroom management
• Break
• Syllabus tone exercise with handout
• Syllabus revision exercise with handout or target syllabus