1. What are the three most important words to a teacher?
"Preparation, preparation, preparation"
2. What are the 7 things students want to know on the first day of school?
➢ Am I in the right row? ➢ Where am I supposed to sit? ➢ What are the rules in the classroom? ➢ What will I be doing this year? ➢ How will I be graded? ➢ Who is the teacher as a person? ➢ Will the teacher treat me as a human being?
3. Define classroom management.
➢ Classroom Management constitutes the provisions necessary to establish and maintain an environment in which instruction and learning can occur.
4. Define discipline.
➢ Concerns how students behave and has penalties and rewards
5. A teacher's discipline problems are directly proportional to what?
➢ Distance from students
6. What are the four stages a teacher can go through? What are the characteristics of each stage?
1. Fantasy: Teachers have the belief that all they need to do is relate and be a friend to their students. They rarely talk about standards, assessment, or student achievement. Entertaining students with activities is their concept of teaching. 2. Havent developed instructional skills. Look to keep students busy with busywork (completing worksheets, watching videos and doing seatwork) anything to keep them quiet. They teach because it is a job and the paycheck is their survival goal. Student learning and achievement are not their goals. 3. Mastery: know how to achieve student success through effective practices. Know how to manage their classrooms. They teach for mastery and have high expectations for students. These teachers strive for Mastery by reading the literature and going to professional meetings. Student learning and achievement is their mastery goal. . 4.Impact: Effective teachers make a difference in their students' lives. Students come back to these teachers years later to thank them. Students learn only when the teacher has an appreciable impact on the student's life. When you reach this stage you have arrived as a teacher.
7. What are the advantages to assigning seats?
➢ Facilitates roll taking ➢ Aids name memorization ➢ Separates problem students
8. What determines a teacher's success or failure for the remainder of the school year?
➢ The first day of school
Learning has nothing to do with what the teacher _________________, but what the student ___________________.
teaches, accomplishes/achieves
10. What is one way an effective teacher can prepare for the first day of school?
Having a script
11. What is the number one problem in the classroom?
➢ It is the lack of procedures and routines.
12. Where should a teacher greet students?
➢ The entrance of the classroom
What are the 3 characteristics of an effective teacher?
Classroom Management Lesson Mastery, Positive Expectations
14. An effective teacher in an effective school has what percentile of student learning success?
96th percentile
15. Who or what produces student achievement?
➢ The teacher
School is not a place; school is a _____________________
concept
17. What is the best reward?
➢ The satisfaction of a job well done.
18. What is the difference between a procedure and a rule?
➢ A procedure is a method in how you want things to occur in your classroom (prevents misbehavior) ➢ A rule is what you can and can not do. (non-negotiable)
19. What is the main difference between an ineffective teacher and an effective teacher?
➢ Ineffective teachers do not have a well established classroom management plan, which causes chaos in the classroom.
20. What is the purpose of establishing a morning routine?
➢ To provide structure for the day
21. What are the 3 steps for establishing a new class routine?
➢ Teach ➢ Rehearse ➢ reinforce
Bellwork should take ________ to _________ minutes.
5-10
23. Bellwork should meet one of the 4 criteria. List the criteria.
➢ The task is a review of curriculum material, the application of a concept, an extension of a previous lesson, or a mind engaging activity.
24. List 3 ideas for calling on students.
➢ Craft Sticks ➢ Fishbowl ➢ Rolling a Dice (randomizes who is selected, and doesn't call out one particular student)