Today’s Agenda Peer Review Fairy Tales Assessment Quiz Perfect Classroom Share Instructional Strategies, Classroom Procedures, Management, & Discipline, OH MY! Objective: students will be able to design procedures for basic classroom routines. Students will generate a variety of strategies by which to address classroom behaviors.

Instructional Strategies

Silent Graffiti Each of you will have an opportunity to write a response to the following prompt (no talking!): “What instructional activity/technique have you experienced in a classroom that you feel worked well?”

Discuss Whiteboard Why do some methods work well in one content area or age-level, but may not be effective in another?

Instructional Strategies Walkabout You will be exploring frequently used classroom teaching methods and strategies. These are by no means the only effective strategies that may be used. Rather, this activity is an introduction to just a few frequently used methodologies.

Travel with your group to each of the various strategy stations... Strategy “Walk About” Lecture Games Technology Worksheets Homework Textbooks Questions Groups Travel with your group to each of the various strategy stations... Advantages Disadvantages Most effective NO REPEATS  For this activity—I had 8 posters around the room (those big post it notes). On each posted I had a Strategy (above). Groups traveled around the room and listed Adv/dis/and when the activity is MOST EFFECTIVE. It was AWESOME!!!!! I gave each group 1 minute and 30 seconds each station. After, students when back to their desks, we started going over each one and students completed the Methodologies chart. We didn’t finish, so I took pictures of all the posters, so they could transcribe and finish charts for homework! 

Cooperative Learning

Groups: We Can Work it out How might having students work in groups enhance learning?

Puzzles! 4-5 students per group Each group will receive a puzzle in a ziplock bag. Put the puzzle together… but you will not have a picture of the puzzle to refer to. You MAY NOT talk during this activity. You have five minutes.

Soooooo….. How’d it go?

“Turn to Your Neighbor” Reflect on a time when you felt that a group activity had been a negative learning experience and a time when a group activity was a positive learning experience. Refer to puzzle activity if needed. SHARE!

“Numbered Heads Together” The members of a small group number off, consult one another, and agree on an answer. The teacher calls out a number, and the student with that number gives the answer the group agreed upon: How may students be divided into groups? Why? How may grades be determined for group activities? What is the role of the teacher during group work? How may the teacher handle students who prefer to work alone?

“Teacher Talk”: Discipline & Classroom Management List all the “problem children” you can think of.... Rules? Why do we need them? How do we decide what’s important? What are the non-negotiables? Most effective classroom management? Least effective classroom management? (No names )

Handling Classroom Procedures... Everyday Routines: Taking roll Tardies? Entering/exiting classroom Arranging desks/seating students Work procedures (pen/pencil, paper, where to write, etc.) Talking Turning in classwork, homework, missed work, late work

Handling Classroom Procedures... Classroom Management Movement within the classroom (sharpening pencils, turning in work) Movement out of the class (passes, permission) Students’ signal for teacher help Teacher’s signal for students’ attention Dismissal of class

Handling Classroom Procedures... Course Requirement & Grading Objectives & requirements Grading (total points, scales, %) Late homework/classroom (penalties) Absent work Missed quizzes/tests Dates for major assignments/tests Communication with parents an students concerning grades?

What’s Behind the Behavior? Visit each station Read the scenario and discuss possible reasons the student might be behaving this way. Write how you might address the behavior? Things to avoid?

Today’s Agenda Peer Review Fairy Tale Quizzes Assessment Quiz Perfect Classroom Share Instructional Strategies, Classroom Procedures, Management, & Discipline, OH MY! Objective: students will be able to design procedures for basic classroom routines. Students will generate a variety of strategies by which to address classroom behaviors.