My cheapy camera is taunting me today, but I figured since I wanted to share thoughts about classroom management today more than my outfit, this was probably good enough.
I have two female students in my class who give me a hard time. They are pretty bright and interested, but they talk the whole class to each other. When I'm talking, when they're supposed to do group work, when others are talking. I've had to stop more than once and ask them to be quiet during a single class, but this is getting ridiculous. One of them came in 15 minutes late to class on Monday, with a plate of fries and a hamburger. (I don't even like potato chips in my class, as they can disrupt other students' concentration). I realize I should have separated them at the beginning of the semester (created work groups, asking them to sit apart), but it's too late now. I will assign them in separate groups today.
I felt super frustrated on Monday, and I spent too much time second guessing myself. I spoke to another professor who hired the louder one as his RA and he told me that she is like this in all the classes, and that it likely isn't anything I did. But in general, I find that I usually have 1 or 2 female students who are bright and disrespectful a semester. Last semester, I had two female students in my 2PM class who continually talked during the class. I've spoken to other youngish female faculty members about this, and some of them have similar concerns. I don't get outright disrespect from male students. At worst, I have some male students who dominate class discussion, or try to be overly familiar (one asked if he could take my picture on his iPhone on Monday. I respectfully declined). I wonder if there are weird gender dynamics going on here, as maybe some female students challenge female professor's authority in a different way than a young male professor? (I do realize that this could be partly my fault, but no one other students in any of my other classes are disruptive like this.)
Anyway, this boring outfit (hopefully the fullish skirt makes it slightly more interesting, and not just frumpy, although I am OK with that right now) is supposed to communicate that this is not appropriate behavior.
If anyone has thoughts, experiences, ideas about this subject, I'd love to hear it.
Skirt: Uniqlo
Shirt: Banana Republic
Tights: Target
Shoes: Naturalizer
I have two female students in my class who give me a hard time. They are pretty bright and interested, but they talk the whole class to each other. When I'm talking, when they're supposed to do group work, when others are talking. I've had to stop more than once and ask them to be quiet during a single class, but this is getting ridiculous. One of them came in 15 minutes late to class on Monday, with a plate of fries and a hamburger. (I don't even like potato chips in my class, as they can disrupt other students' concentration). I realize I should have separated them at the beginning of the semester (created work groups, asking them to sit apart), but it's too late now. I will assign them in separate groups today.
I felt super frustrated on Monday, and I spent too much time second guessing myself. I spoke to another professor who hired the louder one as his RA and he told me that she is like this in all the classes, and that it likely isn't anything I did. But in general, I find that I usually have 1 or 2 female students who are bright and disrespectful a semester. Last semester, I had two female students in my 2PM class who continually talked during the class. I've spoken to other youngish female faculty members about this, and some of them have similar concerns. I don't get outright disrespect from male students. At worst, I have some male students who dominate class discussion, or try to be overly familiar (one asked if he could take my picture on his iPhone on Monday. I respectfully declined). I wonder if there are weird gender dynamics going on here, as maybe some female students challenge female professor's authority in a different way than a young male professor? (I do realize that this could be partly my fault, but no one other students in any of my other classes are disruptive like this.)
Anyway, this boring outfit (hopefully the fullish skirt makes it slightly more interesting, and not just frumpy, although I am OK with that right now) is supposed to communicate that this is not appropriate behavior.
If anyone has thoughts, experiences, ideas about this subject, I'd love to hear it.
Skirt: Uniqlo
Shirt: Banana Republic
Tights: Target
Shoes: Naturalizer
