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People go to college for many different reasons; some go because they want to further their education in order to pursue a desired career, some go because they feel it is what is expected of them, and others go because they feel they have no other choice. No matter the reason, there always seems to be a problem in the classroom; the teacher will be lecturing while only a few students are responding. "In Nunn's (1996) observational study of participation in college classrooms, on average less than 6 percent of class time involved student interaction. That's three minutes of student talk per 50 minutes of class time." (Tomorrows Professor, 2006) There are numerous causes to this problem; students simply don’t want to pay attention, have a …show more content…

They have more of an opportunity to take in asking questions, and participating in discussion but the students often don’t, thus leading to the same problem of not paying attention.
I take five college classes, only one of which is a large lecture hall course, chemistry; my other four are smaller classes with about thirty students each, math, composition, literature, and spanish. Every day that I go into my math class all my fellow students and I do the same thing; we sit down, listen to our professor work out math problems from our course webpage for fifty minuets, and then leave. No one in my class ever ask questions and I rarely see anyone write anything down because all of what it being lecture is readily available to us through the course website. This leads to students to sleep, (the lights are off because the projector is always on), text, or simply not show up because they feel there is no reason to. There will be students who walk in, turn in their homework and leave without any consequence other than what they might miss in that days lecture. In comparison to my lecture class, it’s closely the same thing; students come and few pay attention and questions are rarely asked.
The solution that I feel will strongly help solve this problem is dealing directly with the teachers style of

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