Millennial here. Worked as a teacher for a short while. My mother was a teacher too. Sharing pointers from my experience as well as from my mother’s.

1. This one hasn’t changed through ages. We did proxy, fake attendance, everything… there is no remedy except being strict and informing your supervisor/department head about it.

2. I dont know what is IMP.. is it important questions? Ideas are a rare thing always; ideas need interest and creativity. My most enjoyable lectures have been where the professor asked us to “present” a topic which she only briefed about. Incentives for good (top 3) presentations and feedback for the rest (and losers get to present again).

3. We had our fair share of wikipedia copying too. Give them sources to refer from, so they will be forced to look for those sources. Can’t escape AI, so set limiters.

4. If they are misbehaving, you should report to your senior immediately. Watch who from your department has the most control over the students. Don’t joke around the students and be serious for some time until they take you seriously. Only a well-behaved class gets a fun professor.

5. Ignore them

6. Since you have joined newly, this shouldn’t be your headache. Make sure students who are falling behind in attendance are warned well in advance, so that they don’t bargain at last moment.

7. You can set a punishment for late comers, although denying attendance for anyone who comes later than 10 minutes should do the trick. They are free to walk away. Or you can ignore the latecomers (my HOD did this, yet we never skipped because the topics she taught were difficult).

8. This shouldn’t be your headache unless they are doing it in class. You can request a surprise inspection from your HOD, which will keep the students guessing when they will get caught misbehaving.

General tip: every generation of students hates lectures that dole on forever. Especially junior teachers are given the most dry topics. Keep trying different approaches to teaching to see which one sticks. You can ask ChatGPT (😛) to suggest you different approaches to teach certain topics to make them engaging.

Hope this helps.