In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss some of the most common classroom management challenges faced by instruction librarians and chat about strategies to overcome them.

Topics Discussed & Takeaways:

Instruction librarians may not have degrees in education but that doesn’t mean they can’t succeed in classroom management.

Five areas of classroom management challenges:

Getting and keeping students engaged

Getting students to participate

Engaging distracted students & keeping everyone on task

Dealing with difficult students

Handling technical difficulties and interruptions

Links to resources discussed in this episode (or related to the topic):

• “When You Get Nothing But Crickets” from The Cult of Pedagogy (August 18, 2019)
• “Forty ways to survive IL instruction overload; or, how to avoid teacher burnout” by Giovanna Badia in College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2017
• “The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide”, Second Edition Heidi E. Buchanan and Beth A. McDonough
• “Classroom Management: Dealing with Difficult Students” from Brookhaven College

Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @Overthrowinged @WoodsieGirl

This episode's theme music:

Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go

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Email: InfoLitTeachingPodcast@gmail.com

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