About the author: Any teacher, new or experienced, will at times face criticism, resistance, and even hostility from students, parents, and colleagues. An inexperienced teacher who runs a reformed classroom based on classroom discourse and “interactive engagement,” both of which may run counter to school culture, risks resistance or even outright revolt. In this essay, which grew out of discussions on the Modeling Instruction Program Listserv,1 Marc Reif shares some strategies that can be used to forestall or deal with classroom opposition.
REFERENCES
1.
Information about Arizona State University's Modeling Instruction Program and its Listserv can be found at http://modeling.asu.edu/.
2.
Eric Mazur, Peer Instruction: A User's Manual, Series in Educational Innovation (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997).
3.
Timothy F.
Slater
, “When Is a Good Day Teaching a Bad Thing?
” Phys. Teach.
41
, 437
–438
(October 2003
).
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