Making a Good First Impression

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Making a Good First Impression

• How to prepare for the first weeks of school

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THE IDEAL TEACHER

• Design your ideal teacher p. 35
• Passionate
• Uses lots of different teaching and assessment
  techniques
• Has a great sense of humor
• Makes everyone feel welcome in class
• Easily approachable and is available before and
  after school
• Gives students a voice in class decisions
• Genuinely cares about students

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ORGANIZATION PREPARATION

• Organized, well-prepared, and dedicated teachers
  get their students off to a good start.
• Organization/Preparation Tasks checklist p. 37
• Room arrangement 3 important elements traffic
  flow, space for yourself, physical arrangement of
  desks

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Traffic Flow

• Figure out the routine events that will happen
  daily
• i.e. disposing trash, sharpening pencils, handing
  in out papers, entering exiting class
• Create a place where students can speak to you
  privately
• builds safety trust
• Have things that will be utilized daily
  (textbooks, worksheets, corrected work, etc) near
  the door so students can pick them up on the way
  in.

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Space for Self Physical Arrangement

• Space for Self
• Convenient spot for you to work and store
  materials
• Usually in the back or corner, so you can have a
  watchful eye
• Physical Arrangement of the Desks
• Many different options
• Musts see all faces (students need to see you),
  make space for movement, free of distractions

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Seating Charts
Begin with students in alphabetical order As you
learn more about your students, create
heterogeneous seating arrangements Student
Information Form p. 58
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CLASSROOM RULES
Creating, Teaching, and Enforcing the Rules
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Why should we talk about the rules with secondary
students?!!

• Clarify expectations
• Protect rights
• Balance permissiveness and punishment

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Creating the Rules

• When students are involved
• Student-centered
• Trust and confidence
• More likely to follow OWN rules

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Creating the Rules, cont

• Rules for creating the rules
• Reasonable
• State positively
• Enforceable

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Creating the Rules, cont

• Determining Consequences
• Clarify that you are asking for student advice
• YOU have the final say!
• Consequences should be both natural and
  appropriate

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Teaching the Rules
Why is this step important?!!
Rules are USELESS unless they are
understood! Teaching the rules is an ongoing
process. Engage your students But HOW?!
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Enforcing the Rules

• Friendly and Firmly

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Helpful Strategies

• Deal with a broken rule immediately
• Dont make exceptions to the rules
• Be aware of trouble spots throughout your day.
• If your students are breaking rules, check to see
  why.
• Enlarge a copy of the rules and display it.
• Call attention to good behavior. Rewards will
  encourage students to follow rules.

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Things to Know

• Make sure you know and understand the school
  rules
• Follow your school rules
• Teach rules from the beginning

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Creating your Classroom Environment

• Day ONE and Beyond

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Day One

• Taking Charge of the Class

What you Need A Seating Chart Assignments and/or
meaningful work for them to do
What you Need to do Focus the Students Firmly
Stop Misbehavior
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Day One
Relieve Students Fears

• Make sure students are in the right place
• SMILE and be upbeat!
• Make sure your first lesson is INTERESTING!!!

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Day One
Engage you Students
Class Routines Show them HOW

• Work on the first day?
• YES! ?
• Have meaningful work for students to do
• Stimulate their thinking
• For example written assignments and involve the
  5 senses

• Be sure to go over and model the classroom rules
  and how you want assignments to be done

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The First Week

• Everything we teach is new to our students and
  everything they do is new to us.
• Stay organized and be flexible
• Learn your students names!!!

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Definition
• a place where students and teachers can work in a
  safe and pleasant environment as partners in the
  learning process.
• Scaffold yourself out of the discovering and
  learning by becoming a coach or facilitator and
  not the expert
• Get use to noise and lots of activity ?