Wednesday, December 3, 2014
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Something I found out during my field experience was how helpful having good classroom management can be. There are so many things teachers do that are behind the scenes and not directly dealt with unless you know whats going on. My CO had so many little things that if she hadn't pointed them out we wouldn't have been aware of. For example for struggling learners she would tell them the day before what kinds of questions she would ask them in front of the class, then when they were called on they were ready and knew exactly what to do. The attention grabbers my teacher used were also very efficient and useful. She used things like "voice check" and the student would softly say "one two one two". The students quickly responded to all of her attention grabbers and seemed to have fun with them. When I asked how she came up with them she said most of them the students come up with, that way you know they like them and they feel as though they contributed.
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I like that idea of having the students come up with the ideas. That way it doesn't feel so much like a strict rule or something. It seems more fun and like something they are probably more willing to follow. Obviously everything can't be made up by students, but having them come up with new ideas, or make little changes to older ones would be a good idea to keep them involved.
ReplyDeleteTelling struggling learners questions the day before teacher ask them in front of class would be really good. So these students can have enough time to think about the question and be confident to answer questions in front of the class.
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