The First Days of School

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The First Days of School

• Discussion Points

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Key Idea?

• Effective teaching is the most important variable
  in predicting student achievement.

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Effective Teachers Focus on

• Positive Expectations
• Classroom Management
• Lesson Mastery

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Positive Expectations

• Having positive expectations simply means that
  the teacher believes in the learner and that the
  learner can learn. p. 11

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Four Levels of Invitational Education

• 1. Intentionally disinviting
• 2. Unintentionally disinviting
• 3. Unintentionally inviting
• 4. Intentionally Inviting
• p. 65-66

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Unintentionally Disinviting

• Examples include
• I teach only students who want to learn.
• If you dont want to learn, thats your
  problem.
• These people just dont have the capacity to do
  any better.
• I was hired to teach history, not to do these
  other things. p. 65

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Four Levels of Invitational Education

• 1. Intentionally disinviting
• 2. Unintentionally disinviting
• 3. Unintentionally inviting
• 4. Intentionally Inviting
• p. 65-66

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The Importance of Names

• Sales people are trained to use a customers name
  every 7 to 10 sentences. Why?
• When you use a persons name you are saying to
  that person You are important. You are important
  enough for me to identify you by name. p. 69

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Classroom Management

• Classroom management overarches everything in
  the curriculum. p. 80

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Chapter 13

• How to introduce yourself.
• What matters most to you on the first day?
• Is there anything you would consider changing?
• How can we use it to promote engagement?

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Items That Caught My Attention

• p.108 Side Bar on the use of voice
• p.132 Calling the role
• p. 109 The Importance of YOU setting the agenda

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Chapter 18 Classroom Management

• The 1 problem is not discipline, it is the
  lack of procedures and routines, the lack of a
  plan that organizes a classroom for academic
  success.
• How do we distinguish between rules and
  procedures?

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• What procedures do we need?
• Refer to pages 168-171 if you need some examples.

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Bellwork

• What is the high school equivalent?
• What are the advantages to using it?
• How can we use it as formative assessment?
• How can we use it to promote engagement?

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Lesson Mastery

• The role of teacher is not to cover.
• The role of the teacher is to uncover.
• p. 227
• Are you teaching for accomplishment or just
  telling the students what to do? p.232

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Blooms Taxonomy is a Tool for Engagement

• On p. 239, there is an excellent example of
  applying Blooms Taxonomy.

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At-Promise Students

• Once you establish structure, you are much more
  likely to succeed with engagement.

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In Closing

• All battles are won before they are fought. Sun
  Tzu