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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Stump The Teacher: #METC13 Session Slides
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Hi there,
I've just come across a blog post I think you'll like.
It explains four really nice ways to acknowledge
good student behavior.
As you know, positive reinforcement is an incredibly
powerful classroom management tool .... BUT it's
also true that some of the praise phrases we often use
get tiresome fairly quickly.
Like a good ad that you've seen too many times, praise
statements can get old and lose their effectiveness.
So let's praise "outside the box," why don't we!
Here are a handful of new praise reinforcements you
may not have seen before. Depending on what age
group you teach, your students will LOVE these.
They are soooo much better than just saying "well
done!"
Click here to see them now:
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=4958955<-- see the blog post
NOTE: If you like them, please leave a comment in
the comment box at the above link. (Giving Rob
positive reinforcement might motivate him to produce
more freebies ;-)
I've just come across a blog post I think you'll like.
It explains four really nice ways to acknowledge
good student behavior.
As you know, positive reinforcement is an incredibly
powerful classroom management tool .... BUT it's
also true that some of the praise phrases we often use
get tiresome fairly quickly.
Like a good ad that you've seen too many times, praise
statements can get old and lose their effectiveness.
So let's praise "outside the box," why don't we!
Here are a handful of new praise reinforcements you
may not have seen before. Depending on what age
group you teach, your students will LOVE these.
They are soooo much better than just saying "well
done!"
Click here to see them now:
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=4958955<-- see the blog post
NOTE: If you like them, please leave a comment in
the comment box at the above link. (Giving Rob
positive reinforcement might motivate him to produce
more freebies ;-)
The Innovative Educator: Mainstream television features kids growing up wit...
The Innovative Educator: Mainstream television features kids growing up wit...: Dayna Martin is a mother of four who is raising her children without school, textbooks, standards, or a curriculum. Instead her children's p...
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Practical Tips for Teaching Large Classes
What is a “Large Class”?
Many teachers in South Africa – and you may be one of them – find themselves working in primary school classrooms that contain many learners, sometimes almost filling the room! Actually, though, a large class has no “exact size.” Usually it is measured in terms of the number of learners per teacher (student-teacher ratio). In some countries, 25-30 learners per one teacher is considered large, while in other
countries this is seen to be normal or even quite small. From a teacher’s perspective, though, a class is “large” whenever it feels large. While a class of more than 50 learners is usually considered a large class, to those of you who normally teach 25 or fewer learners, a class of 35 can be large and overwhelming.
For many of us faced with large classes, we might be tempted to give up, thinking that there is no chance of getting so many learners to learn. The problem is, however, that we assume that learning occurs in proportion to class size. The smaller the class, the more learners learn. However, research shows that class size does not automatically correlate with student learning.
Learners in large classes can learn just as well as those in small ones. What counts is not the size of the class, but the quality of the teaching. Evidence shows that learners place more emphasis on the quality of teaching than class size. Moreover, they may not mind being in a large class as much as you may think they do, or as
much as you mind it yourself.
What is the Challenging Opportunities for you?
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