Episodes
Tuesday Jan 26, 2016
Episode 86: Classroom Management-Consequences
Tuesday Jan 26, 2016
Tuesday Jan 26, 2016
You have your procedures and routines in place.
You have created your three to five class rules.
Now you need to make sure that you create possible consequences because you have to be prepared to address a student who makes a poor choice…
And it’s going to happen.
I encourage you to revisit Harry Wong’s, The First Days of School and Brian Mendler’s, That One Kid.
Look at the section where Harry talks about everything being about choices: good choices and poor choices and they each have consequences. He talks about adults changing their mindset so that the adult thinks in terms of penalties, not punishments.
When you read Brian’s words, you will discover that he has a little different take on consequences. Well worth your time, because he was the kid who would push you to push him out of the classroom.
Today, I am focused on my …
Six Considerations When Looking at Consequences
1. It’s just between you and the student.
2. Involve parents each time.
3. Make it as immediate as possible.
4. Try to handle everything yourself (except emergencies and know the difference.)
5. Post your consequences but don’t back yourself into a corner.
6. It’s not personal… so don’t let it get there.
Best wishes,
Steve
www.effectiveteaching.com (Harry Wong’s website)
www.brianmendler.com (Brian’s blog)
Length: 43:26
Tuesday Jan 19, 2016
Episode 85: Classroom Management: It's OK to Startover
Tuesday Jan 19, 2016
Tuesday Jan 19, 2016
Teaching is experiential.
We learn by making mistakes. We add new tools to our bag of tricks, by discovering what works. We also learn that what works in this situation may not work in a different scenario. This is why successful teachers understand that you learn more about teaching by teaching.
Here are my five considerations for making that do over happen:
1. Admit you have a problem and choose a weekend.
2. You have to be in control of you.
3. Do you have procedures in place?
4. Take a look at your classroom rules.
5. Let’s go back to you
You can do this!
Don’t wait. Start now.
Length: 31:38
Tuesday Jan 12, 2016
Episode 84: WriteWell App with Adi Thacker
Tuesday Jan 12, 2016
Tuesday Jan 12, 2016