Managing Disruptive Student Behavior

College instructors and other higher education personnel are often reluctant to deal with classroom misconduct. This reluctance is based not only on emotional aversion to meting out "discipline," but also a lack of knowledge about how to respond to misconduct appropriately and legally.

This seminar's main mission is to empower instructors, administrators, counselors, and other college personnel to use their legal perogatives to institute policies and practices that will foster civility on the campus. This can be achieved by familiarizing them with practical strategies and principles that facilitate greater coordination and cooperation between college departments and services.

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By Participating, you'll learn to:

• Understand and use your college code of student conduct to foster civility in the classroom and elsewhere on the campus.
• Overcome emotional and additudinal aversions to the appropriate use of discipline.
• Recognize when and when not to refer students to counseling services.
• Document cases of student disruptiveness.
• Deal with students who are both disruptive and may also have psychiatric disability.
• Respond to potentially dangerous cases of disruptiveness.

Date: Wednesday October 24
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00pm
Location: 35-510B

Registration is recommended. To register, please contact the CTL at 756-7002, or ctl@calpoly.edu.