128: When You Get Nothing But Crickets

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

You ask your group a question, and you get nothing back. What's up with that? In this episode, we'll talk about some of the reasons your students (or audience members) aren't participating the way you want them to, and some new things you can try to get a better response.

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0:00.0	This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 128 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast.
0:05.4	In this episode we are going to talk about what to do when you say something to students or an audience
0:12.0	and in return you get nothing but crickets.
0:15.6	All right this one's going to be a little quicker. A lot of my recent episodes have been epic and long
0:32.9	and today I just wanted to talk about something really specific and simple and something that you
0:37.1	can take into the classroom right away and use and apply to your teaching. So just letting you know
0:43.6	in advance this is a little bit of a quickie. You know that thing where you're talking to a group of
0:48.4	people and you ask them a question and no one answers and you wait a few more seconds awkwardly
0:55.5	and nothing happens kind of like I just did there. It's one of those funny little problems faced by
1:03.3	a lot of teachers, coaches, speakers, ministers, pretty much anyone who speaks in front of groups.
1:10.4	The speaker says something hoping for a response from students or an audience and what they
1:16.5	most often get back are a couple of weak smiles, a grunt or two and not much more. Basically crickets.
1:25.0	It's mildly uncomfortable for everyone both the speaker and the audience but thankfully the
1:30.7	moment passes quickly and it's no big deal. Still it's a fixable problem. In this episode we are
1:38.6	going to start by talking about some of the main reasons why it happens and then I'm going to give
1:43.6	you some suggestions for getting much better responses from your audience. First I would like to thank
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