How to respond to rude, disrespectful student attitudes - The Cornerstone For Teachers
I’ve written A LOT about behavior management: creating a strong, positive classroom culture and being proactive, as well as what to do about extreme student behaviors and how to undo your classroom management mistakes. I’ve talked about how to avoid getting discouraged by these kinds of behaviors, and how to not give up on apathetic kids. But I haven’t addressed practical responses in the moment to student attitudes: How should you respond to the little things students do that are rude, disrespectful, or just annoying?
7 tips for teachers on how to create a safe school environment
All children deserve to learn in a safe, supportive educational environment. One education organization working toward this goal is GLSEN, which aims “to create safe and affirming schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.” Below, GLSEN ambassador and youth advocate Jeffrey Marsh offers 7 key pieces of advice for teachers in this excerpt from their excellent book, How To Be You:
Five Movement Strategies in the High School Classroom – Kenny C. McKee
Each day more research confirms the link between movement and learning. Brain researcher David Sousa claims that physical activity increases the amount of oxygen in our blood, and this oxygen is related to enhanced learning and memory. A recent Washington Post article suggests that many student behaviors we associate with ADHD may stem from an overall lack of physical movement — both in and out of school. However, many high school teachers still struggle to integrate movement into the classroom.
Jeopardy Style Review Game Creator
The Instant Jeopardy Review Game has been designed and dramatically improved to make it the perfect review game for a wide variety of classroom uses. This tool is a fun and interactive way to review content in your classroom, meeting, conference, or other group setting. The new and improved version of the Jeopardy Review Game includes the following features: Simple insertion of pictures on Question and/or Answer slides Full support for symbols, such as exponents and wingdings style fonts Better support for foreign language Question and/or Answer slides Simpler visual editing process Embed anything in your question slides, even Youtube videos, flash objects, etc.
Conquering noisy classrooms
Getting your class to settle down, and addressing constant low-level disruption, is part and parcel of delivering a successful lesson. To support your existing classroom management strategies, check out this selection of posters, presentations and video tips that can be used with learners of all ages. Displays and charts To facilitate seamless transitions between and during activities, why not try the popular approach of using a traffic light system? This straightforward presentation uses red, amber and green to make your expectations clear to the whole class.
17 Ideas to Help Combat Learned Helplessness
By Sarah Tantillo Recently I’ve been thinking about the ways in which we either inculcate or prevent learned helplessness in students. Some teaching practices help strengthen students’ self-efficacy, motivation and confidence, while others have the opposite effect. And the irony is that teachers might not even realize they are doing things that create this opposite effect.
Live Worksheets Maker - Getting started guide
Making interactive worksheets is very easy with ourLive Worksheets MakerTry it now!! Getting started guide 1. Open the Live Worksheets Maker and upload your worksheet Click here to open the Live Worksheets Maker. Then choose a doc, docx, pdf, jpg or png file from your computer and click upload.
Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All
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MindMaps - Collaborative Tools
Maintained by Margaret Riel, and faculty and cadres from the Masters of Arts in Learning Technologies, from the Graduate School of Education and Psychology from Pepperdine University --feel free to start a discussion around any of these tools or add a tool. WEB 2.0: The Web You Help Create As Well As Use Web 2.0 is the read/write version of the internet; sometimes called the participatory web.
20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners
Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners. She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation was like being a student in her classroom. She presents on how to make the classroom engaging and motivating to all students, even the most reluctant learners, while modeling for her audience exactly how she would do it. The experience is a bit jarring because it’s so different from the lectures that dominate big education conferences, but it’s also refreshing and way more fun. Perez says when students are engaged, predicting answers, talking with one another and sharing with the class in ways that follow safe routines and practices, they not only achieve more but they also act out less.
75 Digital Tools and Apps Teachers Can Use to Support Formative Assessment in the Classroom
There is no shortage of formative assessment strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. We didn’t just add any old tool to this list. Here are the criteria we used for those that made the cut:
4 Early-Year Keys for Effective Classroom Discipline
Nothing can undermine a classroom climate that's conducive to learning more quickly than a host of minor disruptive behaviors. These behaviors alone may be no big deal, but collectively they steal instructional time and the positive energy that our students need to attain success. Although effectively managing student behavior is a multifaceted practice, there are four central things that you can -- and should -- do very early in the school year to set the proper tone. 1. Make your first words and actions confident, enthusiastic, and welcoming. Let your students know how glad you are to meet them or see them again.
