Preventing Disruptive Behavior In Colleges

More than 50 percent of K-12 teachers leave the profession within four years due to classroom "discipline problems." Unfortunately-with pressure to pass these students on, with colleges' dire needs for admissions and financial pressures, and with the often "rough" culture of adolescence-higher education teachers and professors are now finding disruptive behaviors in their college classrooms. The best time to solve a problem is before it starts. This book helps college instructors not just handle but also prevent these real-life disruptions in higher education so as to not lower learning standards. The book includes guidelines for preventive skills that respect the teaching style of the instructor/professor. Included are concrete examples of problems and their prevention/solution, help with creating a course syllabus that curtails these problems, and training exercises to practice these skills.

This book helps college instructors not just handle, but prevent these real-life disruptions in higher education so as to not lower learning standards. The book includes guidelines for preventive skills that respect the teaching style of the instructor/professor. Included are: concrete examples of problems and their prevention/solution; help with creating a Course Syllabus that curtails these problems; and training exercises to practice these skills.

Howard Seeman has thirty years of experience teaching in colleges, published over two dozen professional articles, and trained teachers in classroom management.