Ep 2 - How to Deal with Dominating Students: Five Strategies for What to Do When a Few Students Won't Stop Talking
Description
Raise your hand if you’ve ever facilitated a discussion where one or a few students talk and talk and talk to the exclusion of everyone else!
Dealing with dominating students is one of the most common sources of frustration that facilitators share with me. They care deeply about creating equitable and accessible spaces for all of their students, but worry about causing harm to overly talkative students by shutting them down.
Students themselves report that this is one of the most frustrating dynamics that facilitators handle poorly, so if you want students to feel satisfied with their experience in your classes, this is a problem you are going to want to learn how to address effectively.
In today’s episode, I’m going to share with you five reasons why certain students tend to dominate, and then five simple strategies for what you can do in response.
Getting to the “why” behind this phenomena will help you respond much more strategically when it emerges in your class, and my straightforward strategies should help you hit the ground running.
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Reigning in the dominant speakers is only a piece of the puzzle. Getting the rest of the class to speak up is the other! Be sure to check out my free PDF, The Ultimate Quickstart Guide to Getting Students to Talk, for additional strategies you can implement right away.
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