Professional Development

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Professional Development

• Recertification points
• Keep files
• Two or three conferences a year
• Discipline
• Special Needs
• Language Arts/Math
• Centers (Fun)

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TIME MANAGEMENT

• Plan for a week or month (running dittos,
  ordering films, etc)
• Handle papers once
• You move, not the student to help them
• Schedule posted/saves
• questions all day

• Keep notes in small book
• Lesson plans in order
• Over plan
• Make a to-do list
• Place for everything
• Determine your most productive time

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TIME MANAGEMENT

• Color coordinate everything
• Let students help
• Set deadlines/write down
• Spend extra time year one for charts, graphs,
  listing film strips,etc
• Every minute count

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TRANSITION TIME

• Avoid delays/sitting or standing with nothing to
  do
• Learning materials for next task ready
• Sufficient quantities and extra copies
• Give children jobs/ hand out materials

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TRANSITION TIME

• Get undivided attention
• Clear directions
• Establish reasonable time limits
• Make the same each day
• Avoid raising excitement level

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TRANSITION TIME

• Sometimes transition in small groups
• Provide assistance once transitioned
• Short and quiet time break instead of recess

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ADD/ADHD STUDENTS

• Use praise often
• Be calm, animated
• Show off to principal
• Desk near teacher
• Give chance to move
• Daily rewards (stickers, privileges)
• Assign a buddy

• Encourage team work
• Harder subjects in morning (fade in afternoon)
• Catch them being good
• Give fiddle objects
• Never use sarcasm

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ADD/ADHD STUDENTS

• Avoid lengthy assignments (cross out word instead
  of rewriting sentence)
• Put their humor to good use
• Send positive notes
• Close contact with family

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POSITIVE DISCIPLINE

• Abuse It/Lose It
• Incompatible alternative
• Extinction principle
• Satiation principle
• Positive reinforcement
• Successive Approximation principle

• Logical consequences
• Anticipation principle
• Preparation principle
• Follow through
• Choice principle
• Humor principle
• Wait until later
• Punish behavior

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BULLYING

• BULLYING
• 15 of children from k-12
• Boys words and gestures
• Girls slandering, spreading rumors, manipulation
  of friends

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BULLYING

• 60 girls said bullied by boys (grades5-7)
• 20 girls said bullied by both sexes
• 80 boys said bullied by boys
• Peaks in elementary school

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BULLYING

• Bullying occurs during
• Transition time
• Lunch/recess
• Adults not present
• Adults not paying attention
• School hours

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BULLYING

• Teacher sets tone and climate
• Responses and attitude of adults
• Class discussions
• Teasing vs. bullying
• Writing exercises
• Reading assignments

• Role play
• Case studies
• Give common vocabulary

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CRISIS DEVELOPMENT

• 1. ANXIETY LEVEL supportive response
  empathetic, active listening, non judgmental
• 2. DEFENSIVE LEVEL beginning loss of
  rationality, losing control
• responds to your tone of voice and proximity
  rather than words
• directive approach set clear and simple
  limits that are enforceable (ex calm down or be
  moved)

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CRISIS DEVELOPMENT

• power struggles occur and button pushing
  begins between staff and student
• give simple explanation of facts (noise)
• give them feeling of control/choices
• maintain professionalism
• 3. ACTING OUT PERSON
• verbal assault turns physical

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CRISIS DEVELOPMENT

• non-violent crisis intervention non injurious
  restraint techniques
• can be dangerous
• can escalate a situation
• legal implications
• most acting out is not premeditated

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CRISIS DEVELOPMENT

• 4. TENSION REDUCTION
• all stages expel energy, emotional and physical
• might feel remorseful/apologetic
• vulnerable/may not remember
• therapeutic rapport communication
• gaining rational/breathe

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STRESS PRODUCING SITUATIONS

• Loss of job, involuntary transfer, involuntary
  reassignment
• Discipline problems
• Lack of student achievement
• Poor quality in-services

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STRESS PRODUCING SITUATIONS

• Low faculty morale
• Grading
• Poor student attitude
• Not being prepared
• Too many students
• Lesson planning
• Lack of adequate materials

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STRESS PRODUCING SITUATIONS

• Threat of malpractice suits
• Extra duty (hall, detention, cafeteria)
• Record keeping/paper work
• Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Student absences

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STRESS PRODUCING SITUATIONS

• Constant interruptions
• Pressure on improve test scores
• Parents lack of support
• Low pay/no advance
• Observations and evaluations
• New students all through the year

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STRESS PRODUCING SITUATIONS

• Underutilization of abilities and skills
• Work overload
• Poor classroom conditions (cold, hot, crowded,
  shabby)
• Nonparticipation in decisions (ex dates on
  calendar)

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STRESS REDUCERS

• Get some sleep!
• Eat well (snack)
• Physical exercise
• Daily me time
• Get in early/relax
• Trade strengths with a co-worker (field trips,
  etc)
• Set up after school

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STRESS REDUCERS

• Be organized
• See mistakes as learning experiences
• Tell someone/talk
• Learn to say NO!
• Be accepting of others limitations and opinions
• Socialize after school

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STRESS REDUCERS

• Associate with positive people
• Analyze your life and your standards (home)
• Avoid escape routes
• Maintain humor
• Dont EVER give up