Are You Ready for Week Two?

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Are You Ready for Week Two?

• Just a Few Thoughts
• for Rookies

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• Stick Kid
• by
• Peter Holwitz

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• There is overwhelming evidence that the first two
  to three weeks of school are critical in
  determining how well students will achieve for
  the remainder of the year.

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Essential Question

• What strategies can I implement to create a
  successful learning environment for all students?

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A well-managed classroom is also a predictable
environment.

• Expectations tone
• Greet students at the door
• Agenda
• Beginning of class warm up/do now
  sponge/hook/essential question
• Ending of class ticket out the door/summarizing
  strategies
• Make-Up Work Policy

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Effective teachers MANAGE.Ineffective teachers
DISCIPLINE.

• Effectiveness has to do with doing
• Student engagement vs. student compliancy
• Proximity spread yourself thin
• Goal of zero downtime
• Seating chart
• Anticipate your students needs in advance
  copies, materials, supplies

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What kind of impression are you making each day?

• Are you on time?
• Are you organized?
• Do you exhibit professionalism?
• Do you communicate that you are the teacher?

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Always deal with the BEHAVIOR not the PERSON.

• Rules consequences
• Equality
• Consistency
• Be aware of the characteristics of the age group
  that you teach

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Final Thoughts

• Its always okay to change what is not working.
• Teacher actor
• Its probably dangerous to teach as you were
  taught.
• Two key verbs train review.
• Remember the power of your words.
• It makes no sense being a teacher that no one
  wants to have as a teacher.
• Surround yourself with positives.

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Resources for Rookies

• The First Days of School How to be an Effective
  Teacher by Harry K. Wong Rosemary D. Wong
• Qualities of Effective Teachers by James Strong
• The Really Big List of Classroom Management
  http//drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/classm.html

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Ticket Out the Door3-2-1

• Strategies to create a successful learning
  environment
• Anythings that went well last week
• Question I have about classroom
• management skills