Timeline for Some students giggle at me while I teach!
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| May 27, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | paul garrett | It's true, though maybe not typical, that some students may in fact by amazed by your lectures' contents! In my own experience, I remember vividly hearing an amazing thing for the first time in a lecture, and I (as a 19-year-old) laughed out loud and exclaimed something like "wow! far out!" (the idiom of those years). This was not taken as a positive by the instructor... though I did try to explain that I'd meant it as a positive. :) | |
| May 27, 2021 at 16:26 | comment | added | The Amplitwist | Sometimes, I would find an insight in something the instructor wrote on the blackboard, and I would smile delightedly while sharing it (unobtrusively, of course) with a nearby student, and I would receive a nod and smile back. I remember learning not to do this in a class taken by a specific professor, because they interpreted our smiles as us laughing at them, and it would upset them incredibly. This may or may not be similar to your experience, but I think it is worth trying to elaborate on how and when this laughter occurs, for more clarity. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 16:12 | answer | added | user140114 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 21:06 | comment | added | user128581 | When I was an undergrad, my classmates and I made up a lot of silly jokes about our lectures and about our lecturers. Some (albeit a minority) of those silly jokes developed into really useful mnemonics for class material. So think twice before trying too hard to stamp out the giggling: it may be serving an educational purpose. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 1:48 | answer | added | Sarah | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 8:46 | comment | added | Ahmad | @Greg It can be as two girls who were laughing belongs to a Asian background. But I still wouldn't entirely agree with this notion. They two just seems careless students. | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 8:41 | comment | added | Ahmad | @Kimball this might be one of the reasons. I am a non-native speaker so it's possible that a couple of them find it bit amusing. But rest of the class find me alright so I will not worry about it a lot. | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 8:15 | comment | added | aparente001 | Sometimes a teacher will pause and ask, in a pleasant way, if they want to share the joke, for example, "Something funny? Care to share the joke?" It might have suddenly hit one of the students that the problem, as stated in the book, somehow reminds them of Donald Trump. | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 2:16 | comment | added | Kimball | I don't speak funny - Judging from your post, your use of English is not what I would call normal for a native speaker. I'm not saying this is the most likely scenario--I'm just trying to alert you to possibilities you're dismissing--but it's possible your way of speaking could be unintentionally amusing to some at times. (This is possible for both native and non-native speakers, and isn't something to necessarily take offense at.) | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/790614008885837824 | ||
| Oct 24, 2016 at 16:52 | comment | added | Greg | It may be a cultural thing. E.g many Asians giggle in stress situations. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 13:31 | answer | added | GEdgar | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 10:24 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Related: academia.stackexchange.com/q/56749/20058 | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 8:22 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Check your trousers zipper. :) | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 8:19 | comment | added | 101010111100 | What @NateEldredge said works like a charm. And in the cases where they continue to giggle (or talk, or whatever), simply ask them to leave the lecture on grounds of their disruptive behaviour. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 2:09 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | I took a defense course for about a year and it made me much more confident in class, less likely to get upset at small things, less likely to escalate stuff (ironically: less emotionally defensive), and as a result experience significantly fewer ongoing disruptions from students. Just a thought. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 2:08 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Frankly - if they indeed laugh at you, these students are still in their teenage years. In that case, they are immature and you, the lecturer, should not be perturbed by them. There is a saying, not sure where it comes from: "The dogs bark, the caravan passes." If they do not laugh at you, then it's not your problem. They are adults, and it's their time and concentration they are wasting. In short - no reason to worry, as long as it does not force you to speak louder. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 0:43 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | One thing that's often effective is to simply stop talking and look at them until they stop. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 0:08 | answer | added | Chris Leary | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 22:43 | history | edited | Ahmad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2016 at 22:38 | history | asked | Ahmad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |