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Do yourself a favor and avoid these common teaching traps 1- Aiming To Be Buddies With your Students 2- Being Too Easy On Discipline 3- Not Setting Up Proper Organization From The Start 4- Getting Involved In Campus Politics 5- Working Too Hard And Burning Out 6- Not Asking For Help

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Dealing with Angry Students

1-Remain calm and speak in a controlled manner. 2-Try not to take it personally. 3-Acknowledge that the student is angry. 4- Tell the student that if they calm down it will be easier for you to help them Empathize with the studentÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s frustration, while explaining the University policy, rule or requirement. Empathic statement examples include, Ã¢â‚¬Å“I can see that youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re upset by thisÃ¢â‚¬Â or Ã¢â‚¬Å“This feels like itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s really important to you. 5- Let them know what you CAN do, not what you CANÃ¢â‚¬â„¢T do. 6-Recognize that, while for some students empathy will transform the situation, for others, nothing you… >>>

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Help the Student Pay Attention

Ideas to Improve Motivation 1- exaggerating and/or changing your voice's inflection (pitch or tone) when presenting key information. 2- You can slightly increase and/or change the volume of your voice (speaking rate). 3- Use Preferential Seating 4- Create Low-Distraction Work Areas 5- Restrict Student Access to Electronic Devices and Other Potential Distracting Objects

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Effective Assessment

Testing students is not as easy as it may seem. Teachers must come up with authentic methods for assessing students.Using formal assessment to measure student knowledge can come at several different points during unit plan. Assessments preformed before a unit, while we are teaching the unit and after we are finished teaching the unit are all valid and helpful to a teacher, yet each serve different purposes. Understanding each assessment type is important to helping teachers fine tune their teaching skills.

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CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

Through close observation of students in the process of learning, the collection of frequent feedback on students' learning, and the design of modest classroom experiments, teachers can learn much about how students learn and, more specifically, how students respond to particular teaching approaches. Classroom Assessment helps individual college teachers obtain useful feedback on what, how much, and how well their students are learning. Faculty can then use this information to refocus their teaching to help students make their learning more efficient and more effective.

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Good learning starts with questions, not answers

Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding. It also benefits learners as it encourages engagement and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas.

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kinds of learners

Teachers who include all the learning styles in their lessons will be more effective and have more engaged students. There are all kinds of learners: those who learn by seeing something written, those who learn by listening to something being said, and those who learn by actually doing something. These types of learners have the technical names of visual learners, audio learners, and kinesthetic learners. The best learning situation is one that includes a strong mixture of all three of these learning