How Novice Teachers Can Succeed with Adolescents

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How Novice Teachers Can Succeed with Adolescents

• Idea 1 Developing Social Insight
• Understanding what is taking place in the
  classroom
• Understanding Adolescent Culture
• Verbal language
• World View
• Behavior Style
• Values
• Cultural and ethnic identification
• Speech patterns
• Popular music
• Styles of Dress
• Favorite movies
• Places of recreation
• How Exposing yourself to adolescent culture,
  being sensitive to students moods at various
  times, relating content to students outside
  interest, getting to know your students, and
  sharing your humanity
• Why When a teacher does not have social insight,
  communication breaks down and the result is
  classroom management problems
• Why To control the milieu of the classroom and
  to allow for instruction to take place

• Idea 2 Developing Withitness
• Understanding main behaviors in the classroom and
  how to react appropriately
• Knowing who is causing the problem
• Knowing how to handle more than one problem at a
  time
• How, When, and why are identical to developing
  social insight