after practice , I totally agree with Kilted.
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after practice , I totally agree with Kilted.
To keep this going... I teach in an alternative school where the gangsta thug students aren’t afraid. Some of them are personally familiar with the wrong end of a beating from gang violence, up to and including being on the wrong end of the firearm. Fear is out of the question. Continual, steady moral modeling and a little bit of pressure with standing up and saying no is what I have found that works the best. I have had to get firm and send them home for the day, but they have to come to me the next day to get back into class. They all have. They call me at home; ask for help for their friends and family. I am what they call a player hater, but they seek me out. Christ accepted them all as they were and weeded out their problems afterward (sorry to get on the soapbox). It can work. You will get prematurely gray, but it can work.
Jamesian, in regular public school, I do somewhat agree. But, the government doesn't allow it. We need to work towards a stronger model, much like the Asian model where students are categorized and placed as their intelligence allows. We would have a large number of agricultural facilities.
I have a "sleeper" in my class, and could use some advice to keep him awake! I have noticed that including movement, or anything that gets them up out of their seat helps. However, I don't want to always make this a part of our day. Any suggestions? I realize I must keep the curriculum engaging, and try my best to do this, but the problem with this one student is that he does not get enough sleep at night nor does he eat breakfast before class and also says that all the reading I assign is boring- even though I don't think he's attempted all of it. I'm trying not to give up on him, but think he needs more discipline in going to bed early and participating in class- or drop the class. Suggestions, please!!:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Shea
Coming from a highschool's student perspective, the best way to make your mark as a high authorative figure, is to set your grounds at the very first day of class. Respect upon students can be gained by a very witty teacher :p
Just let us kids alone.Kids will be kids.
My pop was a teacher and he would make the kids copy pages of this enormous ancient dictionary (obviously an english teacher) anyways when he retired the former students gifted the dictionary back to him... my family loves that dictionary!
I definetely agree with this.Quote:
Well, I agree with most of you in the way you deal with misbihaving students. In my opinion, first, you should try to find the cause of their misbehaviour. We can't solve a problem without knowing its cause. Once this done, you would know how to react. To give a swift at the back or to react in another way are all useful ways of reacting to your students' misbehaviour. And all depends on the situation you are in.
But before all this. Make rules the first time you go to class. If some one brakes them, you should punish him/her imediatly. In this way, your students know what is expected from them. Try not to give your students' a dead time. That's to say, make them always busy doing something. In this way they will be concentrated in doing what they are required to do, and always reward them for their effort. Give them a purpose for what they are doing. For example, you can't work for free. If somebody asks you to do a work for him/her, you will ask to be paid. That's the same with your students. Their reward will be something that makes them motivated in doing the task they are asked to do.
Most trouble makers are so because they want to prove something to others. Try to make profit of this and make them the center of interest. Involve them as much as possible in classroom activities and ask them to do things that make them important in the eyes of their classmates. Ask them to clean the board and write the date for example.
If you face any problrm with your students, just go back to the years when you were a student yourself and you will find somehow a solution to that problem. I think that you've noticed that some students are eagar to learn in maths for example and don't like English. What makes them so? Once this question unswered, your problem is solved. And the unswerd will only be provided if you know more about your students, their needs, their way of learning, and their social backgounds. There are many factors that interveen in these maters.That's why you are asked to teach only few houres for the remaining are not for having rest at home but to learn from your students. For me, a teacher is just a student him/herself; given exams each moment s/he doing his/her job and should be always prepared, for failure is not tolerated.
My philosophy teacher is a strict man and may be seen as rough. But I esteem him so much.
You understand how to behave with teachers the first time you meet them....the ones who try to be friends, the ones who never chide you or that let you copy in front of them (like my Art teacher) won't get your respect and will go on complaining about that!
In my class there are 16 girls and ONE boy...so, you can imagine the kind of atmosphere( very tense but quite noiseless) and it's impossible to chat without standing out.I chat and laugh a lot, most of times because I'm bored, but I become a very good student with those teachers I like and esteem because I want them to like and esteem me, while I show the wild side with the ones I don't respect because I don't care about their opinion.
In my opinion, students can recognise good teachers and if you want to be one you have to:1) be impartial 2)be the boss, not because you are the teacher and they are the students, but because you know something they can learn 3)love your profession 4) not speak ill of other teachers in front of your students (I have teachers who act like that)
well, I know it's quite hard....
I have a question about the situation of having a student write a 5,000 (or whatever length) essay as punishment. I think it is a good idea. However, does it work? If the student doesn't write it, what do you do then? Tell him to stay in detention until he writes it (which might be a month), etc? I'm just thinking of the problems of parents coming back and getting mad about this issue? How would someone use this method if the student balks at something like that?
I haven't been a teacher (though it looks like I will be one, one day), but I've been a student. Do you have a head or deputy head who is feared? If you do, it allows you a neat twist on "good cop/bad cop". Be the nice, fun teacher in the classroom, but whenever anyone plays up (at all -- don't be afraid to be harsh), send them for a good roasting from the deputy head. Hopefully, this means they come back to your class thinking it will be better to stay on your right side, since you are a decent teacher, but crossing you leads to having to spend time with a mean bastard. (I'm convinced this is the main role of a deputy head -- to instil fear. If yours doesn't, then my tactic doesn't really work; in that case, being your own "bad cop" might be necessary.)