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Milad Mohebali; Elmira Jangjou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This critical duoethnography takes silence in classroom discussions as a sociocultural artifact that reveals the norms of the society that upholds it. In this research, we made visible and explored the content of silence we experienced as international graduate students. We found that repeated patterns of silence in classroom discussions acted to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Classroom Communication
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McCalman, Claudia Ladeira – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
During the last two decades an increasing number of international faculty specializing in different disciplines have been hired by U.S. institutions of higher education. Most of these instructors have been college educated in their native countries but have come to the United States for graduate studies and then earned doctoral degrees from U.S.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
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Hyden, Paul – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
This chapter reports on a mathematics professor's experience leveraging laptops in a required intermediate statistics course with a challenging student population. Use of laptops streamlined course delivery, enhanced classroom interaction, and improved both his students' and his own overall course experience.
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics, Computers
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Saavedra, Dora E.; Saavedra, Marisa L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Being a Hispanic female faculty member in South Texas can be a challenge. This chapter discusses three pedagogical tools (caring, challenging, and consulting) that we use to create a classroom climate that enhances Hispanic students' success by engaging and motivating them to succeed in one of the poorest areas of the country.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Hispanic Americans
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Schmitz, Betty; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Experiences with the evolution of a University of Maryland, College Park, faculty development program focusing on diversity and classroom climate provide insights into appropriate responses to student diversity. Attention must be given to program rationale, theoretical framework, program content, pedagogical approach, format, scheduling, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
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Braxton, John M.; Bayer, Alan E.; Noseworthy, James A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
When the instructor violates the norms of teaching, there is an impact on student learning.
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Behavior, Student Welfare
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Weaver, Richard L., II; Cotrell, Howard W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1987
Five communication strategies are essential to success in large courses: managing instructor anxiety, using presentation time efficiently, motivating students, communicating enthusiasm, and organizing content. (MLW)
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Communication Skills
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Hodges, Elizabeth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
The margins of college students' writing are the ideal site for teacher-student conversations about the writing, but most of these conversations misfire, largely for reasons that are avoidable. Suggestions are made for responding so students can understand, respond to, and learn from teachers' written comments. Examples from several…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Evaluation Methods
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Richlin, Laurie – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
One educator's experience suggests that having graduate teaching assistants use classroom assessment techniques (CATs) in structured assignments is a good way to develop teaching assistants' ability to look beyond their classroom survival concerns in that it provides a safe way for them to engage students in dialogs about learning. Examples of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
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Speck, Bruce W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Professors need to learn to work with Muslim students, now a significant proportion of the student population, and particularly those for whom English is a second language. Interviews with Muslim students revealed four classroom problem areas: teachers' misrepresentation of Islamic practices; instructional materials misrepresenting Islam; lack of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Students
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Miller, Judith E.; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
A discussion of group dynamics in collaborative learning describes use of this approach in an experimental biology course. Three approaches to group dynamics are outlined (personality and learning style, cognitive style, and group life). Identified are variables that teachers either have little power to affect, can address in course design, or can…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Anson, Chris M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Tape-recorded commentaries on student writing can tell students in detail how a reader responds to their writing. Computers that can record and/or play back voice recordings can also help improve the way teachers annotate students' drafts. Strategies for using the method are presented, with excerpts from students' discipline-based writing and…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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Hodne, Barbara D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Offers reasons and suggestions for involving Asian immigrant college students in classroom talk (by initiating informal conversations, involving more students in discussions, and structuring small-group communication). Cautions against pressuring them to adopt American speech habits that may threaten their Asian-language identities. Includes…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students
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Herrington, Anne J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Argues that developing writing activities, consulting with students as they work on a major writing project, and responding are important vehicles for teaching that fosters engaged learning. Central principles are to make assignments inquiry- or issue-based, to keep them focused but open enough for students to develop their own angle or interest,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Assignments, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
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Coppola, Brian P. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
The instructor of a university organic chemistry course describes how he has incorporated ideas about student motivation and self-regulated learning into his instruction. Specific strategies for active and Socratic learning and instruction are outlined, from modeling and classroom interaction to use of instructional materials, testing, and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment