In what ways do students warm up before learning a new song?
What do teachers recommend about pacing and engagement?
Notice the importance of hand signals in helping students understand tune and pitch.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Music: Primary Lesson _ Students enjoy a new song and learn tune and pitch
Scientific modeling in the elementary grades
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/scientific-modeling-elementary-grades-nsf
Questions to consider:
1. Why is it important for young people to gain experience from scientific modeling?
2. What role do questioning play in these classrooms? What kind of questions do you hear?
3. The lessons in these videos are from the end of units? What do you notice about the learning that students have done during these units?
Differentiating with learning menus
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/differentiating-instruction-strategy
Questions to consider:
1. Why is student choice an important part of differentiation?
2. How does the structure of an assessment (graphic organiser, website, brochure) help students summarize content?
3. How does the teacher in this clip assess students after each phase of the project?
4. If you use differentiated instruction and students choose their own task from the menu and all students are graded on a 1-10 rubric, where do you account for degree of difficulty? How is it fair that the student who chooses easiest tasks throughout the menu earns 10 as compared to students who choose difficult tasks and earn 10?
Questions to consider:
1. Why is student choice an important part of differentiation?
2. How does the structure of an assessment (graphic organiser, website, brochure) help students summarize content?
3. How does the teacher in this clip assess students after each phase of the project?
4. If you use differentiated instruction and students choose their own task from the menu and all students are graded on a 1-10 rubric, where do you account for degree of difficulty? How is it fair that the student who chooses easiest tasks throughout the menu earns 10 as compared to students who choose difficult tasks and earn 10?
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Effective Class Room Management
"Discipline and classroom management are by far the top battle that you must win in the classroom."
Your battle starts now ! What are your weapons ?
ANTAGONISM
WITH AUTHORITY
What can be done to help students
improve their interaction with authority figures?
How can the teacher deal with a child who becomes argumentative
upon confrontation?
BOASTFUL,
ATTENTION-SEEKING STUDENT
What can be done for a student who is constantly disrupting the
class in order to gain the teacher's attention?
CALLING OUT
IN CLASS - RESPONSE #l
What do you do with a student who
calls out answers or comments during class?
What can you do about children constantly calling out in class,
even when they are supposed to be working quietly at their seats?
How can you deal effectively with a
"class clown"?
FAILURE TO ASK FOR HELP
FAILURE TO ASK FOR HELP
What can you do about a student who
fails to ask for help with matters he/she does not fully understand in the
curriculum or in the classroom in general?
HYPERACTIVITY - SHIFT IN ATTENTION
HYPERACTIVITY - SHIFT IN ATTENTION
What can be done for students who
frequently shift their attention and/or interests in class?
LACK OF MOTIVATION
LACK OF MOTIVATION
- What do you do with students who lack motivation, have a very negative attitude toward school, and come to class unprepared?
- What methods can be used to motivate students and increase their interest in learning?
LACK OF RESPECT/ NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO REQUESTS AND RULES
- What do you do with students who show a lack of respect for adults, peers, their belongings, and the property of others?
- What can you do when you are confronted with students who are negative about rational requests and/or rules?
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