Your technique is pretty much the recommendation from the post's author: "Actively mitigate when students may be intimidating each other. When a student uses jargon in a question (often one of those questions that is more of a boast than a real question), explicitly identify when you expect that most students will not be familiar with that jargon, and/or it is not something other students are expected to know for the class (“Thanks for your comment. For the rest of the class, I’m sure most of you aren’t familiar with some of those terms-don’t worry, you’re not alone. Those terms are outside the scope of this class and not necessary to know.”)"
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:37 AM Joshua Ryan Smith Ph.D. < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 14:18, Matt Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I hate when classes get derailed by a particularly experienced student > asking questions to show off or to center discussion on their esoteric > problems. > > I’ve seen this pattern in classes in which I’ve been instructing. Have you > found any effective counters to it? I’ve found it to be pretty disruptive, > particularly among people who aren’t confident in their abilities. I always > try to say something like: “Thanks for the question. The answer is pretty > involved and outside the scope of this class. Hold that question until the > end of the lesson and I will try to answer it during the break.”
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