"You know you can mute your phone, right?"
A classmate in my class kept snapping photos of the professor’s PowerPoint slides during class. Without muting her phone.
From Respect to Repetition: Crafting an Inclusive ESL Experience
I was very moved in my first class teaching at the Community English Program when I invited my students to write on a large poster about what they think the classroom should look like. The first student who came up put two words down in bold, “To respect.” I asked: “Can you elaborate on this word you wrote?” This student responded with something that had I never expected to bring up myself: “to respect each other’s accent.” I added these words onto this poster, and said to the class: “Yes, only to laugh with; never to laugh at.”