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claire moore
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When the processes at school begin to get formal, whether it be for competency or any other reason, now’s the time to seriously consider keeping a diary. If it does come down to an argument about you keeping your job you need to be able to prove that you’ve done everything in your power to resolve whatever situation you’re confronted with. Often, personal memory can be seen as an unreliable guide – a record of the facts from the time is much more powerful. Really, this is just about protecting yourself and making sure that if your role ever is… >>>
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One common mistake is instructors who do not share their classroom expectations at the beginning of the course. Often the syllabus contains all the course assignment information but very few classroom expectations. Additionally, if the expectations are in the syllabus, they need to be shared during the first class, just like you would share the information on the assignments. The expectations also need to be flexible to meet the needs of the instructor as he or she teaches AND the students as they learn. It is generally not a one way highway.
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Traditional management techniques have focused on targeting specific behaviors of individual students and formulating a process to change the behavior. This approach assumes that the interaction is solely between the teacher and the student.
I would suggest that in the classroom setting, all interactions are between the teacher and the
entire class. Even though a teacher may be interacting with a particular student, the
entire class is involved observing the interaction that is taking place.
My approach is to first utilize techniques that are "entire class" oriented instead solely dealing with the individual student that is acting inappropriately.
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From the first day of class, every action has a meaning for our students. If there is furniture in the front of the room, I try to move it out of the way (to communicate that I don’t want any barriers between us). We always begin and end precisely on time (to send a message both about punctuality and respect for the class). I usually start by “cold calling†a student with an “action question†(What should so-and-so do?) and give her whatever time she needs to make her case. I encourage exchanges between students with body language (about which… >>>
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