Tricks of the Trade: Effective Classroom Management (An Open Microphone Session)

To close the Cosmos in the Classroom meeting, we want to share effective ways to help our students (and ourselves) to succeed in our classes, by setting the right course guidelines about in-class and out-of-class behavior. What ways of helping students to become adult learners and responsible members of the college community have been most effective for you? What have you learned from colleagues in your and other disciplines that could help everyone at the session work with 21st century students in our evolving universe of classroom and home technology?