THE FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL BY HARRY AND ROSEMARY

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The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong

The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong

The first days are critical.

What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year.
You will either win or lose your class on the first days of school.
Sometimes, the first several minutes will make or break you!

The effective teacher:

Has positive expectations for student success
Is an extremely good classroom manager
Knows how to design lessons for student mastery

Teachers are not in private practice. We are in the helping and caring profession. It is a service profession to help people enhance the quality of their lives.

Four Effective Teacher Beliefs

It is the teacher who makes a difference in the classroom
By far, the most important factor in school learning is the ability of the teacher
There is an extensive body of knowledge that must be known by the teacher
The teacher must be a decision maker able to translate the body of knowledge about teaching into increased student learning

Research on Improving Student Achievement

Time on task: students who are actively focused on educational goals do best in mastering subject matter.
Cooperative learning: students in small, self-instructing groups can support and increase one another’s learning.
Extensive reading: the extensive reading of materials both in and out of school, results in substantial growth in vocabulary, comprehension abilities, and information base of students.
Wait time: pausing after asking a question in the classroom results in an increase in achievement.

There is absolutely no research correlation between success and family background, race, national origin, financial status or even educational accomplishments. There is but one correlation with success, and that is ATTITUDE!

Dress for Success!

You do not get a 2^nd chance at a first impression.
It’s common sense. You will be treated as you are dressed.
You are much better off making your dress work for you than to allow it to work against you.
The advantage of looking professional is that it keeps you from self-destructing in the first few seconds, before the students make hasty judgments about you.
The effective teacher dresses appropriately as a professional educator to model success.
Clothing may not make a person, but it can contribute to unmaking a person.
Research reveals that clothing worn by teachers affects the work, attitude and discipline of students. You dress for respect, credibility, acceptance and authority.

What is appropriate dress?

You expect your students to use appropriate English, write papers using the appropriate form and display appropriate behavior and manners. Right?

Then you understand about dress.

All of us need to convey to our students and our colleagues every day that ‘you are important to me as a person.’

Concepts to increase positive student behavior:

Address a student by their name

Say “Please”

I really appreciate what you did, “Thank you”

Smile

Effective teachers MANAGE their classrooms. Ineffective ones DISCIPLINE their classrooms.

Characteristics of a well-managed classroom

Students are deeply involved with their work, especially academic, teacher-led instruction
Students know what is expected of them and are generally successful
There is relatively little wasted time, confusion or disruption
The climate of the classroom is work-oriented, but relaxed and pleasant

The effective teacher has a minimum of student misbehavior problems to handle. The ineffective teacher is constantly fighting student misbehavior problems.

Effective teachers:

Have the room ready

Have the work ready

Have themselves ready!

Are present in the room or at the door when students arrive

Assign seating to everyone as they enter the room

Have an assignment ready for students on desks

Ineffective Teachers are:

Nowhere in sight when students arrive

Reshuffle the whole class after everyone has found a seat

Grumble about all the details that must be done before class can begin

Effective Management strategies

Assignments posted before students enter the room and posted in the same location daily (Post assignments if you want students to do them)
Teach responsibility
Remember that you start class, not the bell.
Prime time in school is the first few minutes in a class
Start class with an assignment

Please have a plan for managing procedures and routines. If you do not have a plan, you are planning to fail.

If the student cannot demonstrate learning or achievement, the student has not failed-WE have failed the student. Schools exist and teachers are hired for one reason only-to help students achieve.

If students know what they are to learn, you will increase the chances that they will learn.

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