Monday, March 17, 2008

Case Study in Classroom Management Issues Part 1 of 2

An Instructor wrote:

It’s always a challenge to balance the different levels of computer skills of my students, but yesterday was in a class by itself (no pun intended). There were three students (out of 16!) who really didn’t have the basic computer skills necessary to be in this level class, but one student was truly having difficulty.

At the first break she told me “I’m a really slow typist” but I knew that wasn’t the whole story. At the second break she admitted that she’d been in a car accident and that now she reported she had trouble learning. When I suggested that she re-take the class at a later date once she’d had a little more experience with the software she said that she is using the software at her current job and that her boss insisted she take this class, that she had paid for the class and she wasn’t about to leave.

Check back next week to learn what the instructor did. Every instructor faces this. Share your thoughts by commenting.

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