Principles of Teaching

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Principles of Teaching

• Session 4
• Effective Teachers
• The Naturals

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BOARDWORK Think-Pair-Square

• In what ways is the teaching profession an art?
• In what ways is the teaching profession a science?

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Enjoying Learning

• Learning by Doing
• Goofing Off
• Passing notes
• Whispering
• Sharpening pencils
• Doodling
• Gazing out the window

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Pair Partner Discussion

• Describe to your partner a memorable time in
  which you and/or others in your class were
  goofing off.
• Describe the reaction of a teacher you had when
  students were goofing off in class.

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Working Yourself to Death

• Hand papers in
• Pass papers back
• Get into groups
• Line up
• Sit up
• Sit down
• Shut up
• Pay attention
• Helpless hand-raising
• Parent conferences
• Faculty/committee meetings
• Grading papers
• Lesson planning

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Natural Teachers

• Natural teachers find the profession
  exhilarating. They do not work themselves to
  death.
• NATURAL TEACHERS WORK SMART, NOT HARD .

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Characteristics of Natural Teachers-

• Good Instincts
• Dont have a clue
• Common Sense
• Make Management Affordable
• Make Management Look Easy
• Make Method Out of Magic

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Partner Teach

• Stand and teach the four characteristics of
  natural teachers to your partner.
• One minute.
• Switch.
• One minute.

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Beyond the Naturals

• Accumulation of many natural teachers, not just
  one

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Positive Classroom Management

• Classroom Structure
• Limit-Setting
• Responsibility Training
• Omission Training
• Back-up System

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Management Is Leadership

• Management means getting things done through
  people.
• Fundamentals are the same in parenting, teaching,
  business, industry
• How to get people to do what you want them to do
• Correctly,
• On time,
• With a good attitude.

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The Three Areas of Classroom Management

• Discipline
• Instruction
• Motivation

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5 Elements to Discipline

• Get students on task
• Keep students on task
• Suppression of disruption
• Building patterns of cooperation
• Mutual respect within the classroom

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You Teach

• Turn to your partner and teach the five elements
  to classroom discipline.
• Switch!

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Classroom Rules Assignment

• Based on what you have read and learned about
  classroom management thus far, create a list of
  rules that you will post in your classroom.
• Remember that rules should be
• Brief
• Stated in the positive
• Something you are willing to enforce
  consistently.
• Due Tuesday, June 22, 2004

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Instruction

• How do you produce mastery and independent
  learning in all students without working yourself
  to death?
• Effective instruction requires the integration of
  all modalities of learning at every step of
  performance
• The Verbal (Say)
• The Visual (See)
• The Physical (Do)

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Partner Teach

• Turn to your partner and teach your partner how
  to produce mastery and independent learning in
  all students.
• Switch.

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Motivation

• How do you get conscientiousness and hard work
  from all of your students?
• Quality control to classroom work
• Incentives for diligence

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Your Turn

• Turn to your partner and teach him/her everything
  you have just learned about the three areas of
  classroom management
• Discipline
• Instruction
• Motivation
• Switch.

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Metaphor of the Effective Teacher

• Metaphor - the process of describing one thing as
  if it were another figurative language using
  literal language to suggest an analogy (i.e. the
  world is a stage the effective teacher is an
  oak tree)
• Write a metaphor for effective teaching using
  what you have learned from
• Class Discussion
• Education, chapter 1
• Borich, chapter 1
• Martin, chapter 1
• Dimensions of Learning (Dimension 1) and
• Personal Experience

• Word processed.
• One page minimum
• Two page maximum
• Criteria for Evaluation
• Explicit identification of a metaphor
• Explanation of the meaning of the metaphor
  (multiple facets required)
• Connections to the six areas in the left column
• Word processed
• Adequate length (meaningful prose, not fluff)

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Closure

• Work as a team to WRITE a SUMMARY of the
  important aspects of Borich, chapter 1.
• Divide sections of the chapter equally among team
  members
• Have each member write a two-sentence summary of
  the section s/he was assigned
• Combine each summary (in order), to make up a
  complete chapter summary
• Have each member find a person from another team
  and compare group summaries.

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Principles of Teaching

• Introduction to
• Positive Classroom
• Management

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Dilemma

• How do you get people to do what you want them to
  do
• Correctly?
• On time?
• With a good attitude?

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Students Manage Teachers Too

• Students have a head start
• Switching the Agenda
• Instruction
• Motivation

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Positive Classroom Management

• Classroom Structure
• Limit-Setting
• Responsibility Training
• Omission Training
• Back-up System

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Classroom Structure

• Focuses upon arranging every aspect of the
  classroom environment so that learning becomes
  more likely and goofing off becomes less
  likely.
• The cheapest way to manage any problem is to
  prevent its occurrence.
• Classroom structure aims to do just that.

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Limit-Setting

• Typically referred to as meaning business.
• Limit setting is the body language by which
  teachers convey their control of classroom
  situations in a relaxed, yet powerful manner.

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Responsibility Training

• Responsibility Training focuses upon the central
  issue of discipline management in the classroom
  cooperation.
• The idea is to train the class to be responsible
  for their actions in order to maximize learning
  time while building group cohesion and mutual
  respect.

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Back-up System

• A back-up system utilizes negative sanctions to
  suppress severe behavior problems.
• The school discipline code.
• The most expensive and failure-prone portion of
  any discipline management program.

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Partner Teach

• Stand-up, walk around the room and find a partner
  who you have not worked with yet this semester.
• Teach the four parts of Positive Classroom
  Management to your partner
• Classroom Structure
• Limit-Setting
• Responsibility Training
• Back-Up System
• One minute. Switch. One minute.

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Summary of Positive Classroom Management

• Clarifying goals
• Structuring the environment for success
• Imparting necessary skills
• Setting limits
• Building cooperation and
• Creating a sense of shared purpose.
• These are the basics of leadership.
• These are the basics of positive classroom
  management.

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Two More Points

• Keep It Positive
• Traditional Wisdom
• Discipline equals punishment
• Putting the lid on it
• Self Discipline and Cooperation
• Lessons from rough kids
• Building patterns of cooperation

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Two More Points

• Keep It Cheap
• Basic Objectives
• Reducing Your Work Load and Stress
• Adding to Your Repertoire
• Choosing the Right Procedure
• Positive Classroom Discipline Is a System
• Criteria For Choosing
• Always choose the cheapest remedy
• If a discipline procedure is working, it will
  self-eliminate.

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Closure

• Discuss the following questions with your partner
• In what ways is the teaching profession both an
  art and a science?
• How does the chapter on The Master Teacher in
  the book Education relate to todays lesson and
  the lesson on The Naturals?