Chapter 4: Managing the psychosocial environment Effective Classroom Management
- What will class building and teambuilding look sound and feel like in your class? Describe some activities that you might use for each.
- Discuss the claim: bullying is no longer as serious in schools as it was 20 years ago.
- When a compliment is given to someone, should the teacher follow constructive criticism to be most meaningful?
- Do you agree or disagree with the statement: to say that teachers “model” good manners means that they regularly use good manners when interacting with others.
Chapter 5: Managing student motivation to learn
- Discuss the definition of Motivation
- Why do individuals generally try to avoid certain people, conditions, and tasks they perceive to be unpleasant.
- Successful students should emphasize verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical intelligence.
- Describe how you will use class building, teambuilding, and multiple intelligences strategies in a grade of your choice to motivate your students. Effective Classroom Management
Chapter 6: Managing instruction
- Suppose you decided to teach a haiku lesson by using Say, See, Do Teaching. Describe how you would break the topic into small sequential steps and monitor each student’s progress.
- Discuss three broad approaches: direct teaching, facilitative teaching and differentiated instruction.
- Why do you think many teachers imply teach the way they were taught?
- How different would it look if you stepped into the classroom of a teacher who knows how to manage the learning process versus a teacher who only knows how to discipline students?
Chapter 4: Managing the psychosocial environment
- What will class building and teambuilding look, sound, and feel like in your class? Describe some activities that you might use for each.
- Discuss the claim: bullying is no longer as serious in schools as it was 20 years ago.
- When a compliment is given to someone, should the teacher follow constructive criticism to be most meaningful?
- Do you agree or disagree with the statement: to say that teachers “model” good manners means that they regularly use good manners when interacting with others. Effective Classroom Management