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The First Day of School
Chaper 6:
Why Positive Expectations Are Important
The key idea
Your expectatios of your students will creatly influence their achievement in your class and in their lives.
You can accomplish anything with students if you set high
expectations for behavior and performance by which you yourself abide.
The Two Kinds of Expectations
Positive or high expectations
If you expect to be successful, you are constantly alert and aware of opportunities to help you be successful.
Expectations
Give your students more than they expect, and you will get back more than you ever expected. Student success is limited only by adult expectations.
Students tend to learn as little or as much as their teachers expect. Teachers who set and communicate high expectations to all their students obtain greater academic performance from these students than teachers who set low expectations.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER:
Has a statement of positive expectations ready for the first day of school.
Creates a classroom climate that communicates positive expectations.
Conveys positive expectations to all students.
Has a personal attitude of high expectations.
It takes just as much energy to achieve positive results as it does to achieve negative results. So why waste your energy on failing when that same energy can help you and your students succeed?
Negative or low expectations
If you expect to fail, you are constantly looking for justification and proof of why you have failed.
Chapter 7:
How to Help All Students Succeed
The key idea
The more the school and the family are joined as partners in educating young people, the greater the children’s chances for success.
Celebrate the First Day of School
The most important day of a person’s education is the First Day of School, not Graduation Day.
The proper day to celebrate in all the schools of a country is the First Day of School.
The more the school, the family, and the community are joined as partners in the cause of educating young people, the greater each child’s chance for success.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Helps organize a First Day of School celebration.
Plans a classroom welcome for the first day.
Ensures the mental and physical well-being of all students.
Creates an environment for all students to succeed.
Chapter 8:
How to Dress for Success
The key idea
The effective teacher dresses appropriately as a professional educator to model success.
You Are Treated as You Are Dressed
You do not get a second chance to make a first impression.
Effective teachers know that the clothes they wear and the
smile that dresses their face are the first things students see when they are greeted at the door.
You will be treated as you are dressed.
Always dress better than your students. If you do not care about yourself, why should the students care about you?
It is not what is but what is perceived that counts.
The advantage of looking professional is that it keeps you from self-destructing in the first few seconds, before your students make any hasty judgments about you.
The effective teacher dresses appropriately as a professional educator to model success.
The statement that you make influences how the students will behave and achieve in class. And how students behave and achieve in class will determine your success as a teacher.
Every time you act, you validate who you are.
Dress for: respect, credibility, acceptance, and authority.
For when you select your clothes each day, you are making a statement about yourself to the world.
Your respect begins with your appearance.
Dress appropriately because it is very important to know that
people care about you.
If you want to succeed in the world, you must think globally.
Your dress announces to the world whether you care or do not care about yourself.
By how you behave,
you convey to the world a message of who you are and what you expect of life.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Comes to work appropriately dressed.
Comes to teach dressed for success.
Is a role model for students.
Thinks and acts globally.
Chapter 9:
How to Invite Students to Learn
The key idea
There must be people, places, policies, procedures, and programs working together to invite people to realize their fullest potential.
Invitational Education
Effective teachers have the power and the ability to invite students and colleagues to learn together each day in every class.
The Basis of Being Inviting
The basis of being inviting is building relationships.
The effective teacher builds relationships with the parents.
The effective teacher is committed to seeing all people as able, valuable, responsible, and possessing untapped potential in all worthwhile areas of human endeavor.
The invitational messages that are extended exist in the minds of the significant people who influence the lives of other people.
Effective teachers know how to open the door and invite their students to learn.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Has an inviting personality.
Creates an inviting classroom environment.
Works at being intentionally inviting.
Chapter 10:
How to Increase Positive Student Behavior
The key idea
The heart of education is the education of the heart.
Five Significant Concepts
When you look at truly effective teachers, you will also find caring, warm, lovable people.
The Five Significant Conceptst that Enhance Positive Expectations
Address Each Student by Name
When you address someone by name, you are treating that person with dignity and respect.
When you address a student, use the student’s name.
Pronounce the student’s name correctly.
Say “Please,” Please
Courtesy and respect convey a message that says, “I am paying attention to you.”
I Really Appreciate What You Did, “Thank You”
“Thank you” says to others that you appreciate their effort and kindness.
A Smile, the Frosting on the Cake
A smile is the universal language of understanding, peace, and harmony.
“A smile is a light to tell people that your heart is connected with theirs.” -Lynn Birdsong
It All Adds Up to Love
Only two things are necessary for a happy and successful life: being lovable and being capable.
When you look at the truly effective teachers, you will also find caring, warm, lovable people.
Effective teachers offer more than a product; they offer a service, too. Effective teachers can help students learn as well as enhance the quality of their lives.
The sincerest form of service comes from listening, caring, and loving.
Love is the reason for teaching. It costs nothing, yet it is the most precious thing one can possess.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Addresses people by name.
Says “please” and “thank you.”
Has a controlled, disarming smile.
Is loving and caring, lovable and capable
Chapter 11:
How to Have a Well-Managed Classroom
The key idea
The effective teacher is able to organize a well-managed classroom where students can learn in a taskoriented
environment.
The First Thing You Need to Know
Classroom management overarches everything in the curriculum.
The most important factor governing student learning is Classroom Management.
The least important factor is the demographics of the student body.
How you manage the classroom is the primary determinant of how well your students will learn.
It is the teacher—what the teacher knows and can do—that makes the difference in the classroom.
Effective teachers MANAGE their classrooms.
Ineffective teachers DISCIPLINE their classrooms.
The most important thing a teacher can provide in the classroom during the first week of school is CONSISTENCY
The aim of education is to provide children with a sense of purpose and a sense of possibility and with skills and habits of thinking that will help them live in the world
What Is Classroom Management?
Classroom management refers to all of the things a teacher does to organize students, space, time, and materials so student learning can take place.
A teacher who is grossly inadequate in classroom management skills is probably not going to accomplish much
The Characteristics of a Well-Managed Classroom
Students are deeply involved with their work,
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
It is the responsibility of the teacher to manage a classroom and to ensure that a task-oriented and predictable environment has been established.
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER:
Works on having a well-managed classroom.
Establishes consistency in the classroom.
Has students working on task.
Has a classroom with little confusion or wasted time.
Chapter 21:
How to Create an Effective Assignment
The key idea
The greater the structure of a lesson and the more precise the directions on what is to be accomplished, the higher the achievement rate.
Learning basics
Learning has nothing to do with what the TEACHER COVERS.
Learning has to do with what the STUDENT ACCOMPLISHES.
you can only teach the knowledge and skills if you have built a caring relationship and have created a safe, organized classroom.
The effective teacher is learner focused.
Student learning must be at the heart of all decisions made in the school
What Is an Ineffective Assignment?
The bottom line in education is student learning. If the students do not do their assignments, no learning will occur.
An ineffective assignment results when the teacher tells the class what will be covered
It is difficult if not impossible for a student to get the work done when the assignment does not spell out
what the student is to learn.
When the students know what they are to learn, it becomes “mastery learning,” rather than “mystery learning.”
The role of a teacher is not to COVER. The role of a teacher is to UNCOVER.
The Four Steps to Creating an Effective Assignment
Determine what you want the students to accomplish.
Standards form the core or backbone of the curriculum. With standards in place, schools then can create guides for the curriculum. These guides tell the teachers what the students are to master and recommend methods to teach the content.
Write each accomplishment as a single sentence.
OBJECTIVES are what a student must achieve to accomplish what the teacher states is to be learned,
comprehended, or mastered.
Objectives serve two purposes:
The lesson objectives tell the students what is to be accomplished.
The lesson objectives tell the teacher what is to be taught.
To teach for learning, use words, especially verbs, that state how to demonstrate that learning has taken place.
Writing objectives
Pick a verb.
Complete the sentence.
you must continually look at the objectives to make sure the class is on course.
The more understandable the sentence, the greater the chance that the student will do what is intended.
Give the students a copy of the same sentences.
Students can be in control when they know what objective they are responsible to learn.
Study guidelines assist students and parents in clearly defining the expectations for success in and mastery of the concepts presented in the lesson.
Post or send these sentences home with the students.
The Objective Is the object of the lesson
THE EFFECTIVE TEACHER
Writes objectives that tell the student what is to be accomplished.
Is able to align objectives with state or district standards
Knows how to write objectives at all six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Posts the objectives for students to accomplish.
Chapter 24:
How to Assess for Student Learning
The key idea
Teachers are more effective when they work together in teams.
The Tools of an Effective Learning Environment
Teachers that work together to achieve specific measurable goals increase the likelihood of improved student learning.
Three teacher characteristics can be found in schools where continuous improvement occurs. These traits serve as the foundation for schools that produce results:
Working as a productive team.
Setting clear and measurable goals.
Collecting and analyzing ongoing performance data.
Effective schools have learning teams.
The core work of a learning team is to analyze student work with the purpose of improving student learning.
Schools where students learn never give up.
Schools are for student learning.
It comes from evaluating test scores regularly, adapting our teaching to each student’s needs, and not giving up until they get it right.
The Structure of a Learning Team
First half of the meeting
Schmoker Model
ASSESSMENT
QUIET WRITE (1 minute)
BRAINSTORM (4–7 minutes)
SELECTION (3–6 minutes)
OUTLINE LESSON (4–10 minutes)
IMPLEMENTATION (back in the classroom)
NEXT MEETING
FOCUS (3–5 minutes)
Second half of the meeting
Discussing student work.
The teachers spread papers, tests, projects, or reports out on a table and analyze the performance of each student
They share with each other what they are teaching and how they are teaching it, and how they can help each other to improve the instruction so they can better reach the students.
In a learning team, the teachers have the capacity to work together to enhance student learning.
We, as teachers, are better when we collaborate with
each other
Assessment in a Learning Team
Analyze the instruction, not the teacher or the student.
The principals and teachers in successful schools embrace regular assessment as a way of identifying problems early and attacking problems immediately
Teachers who work in groups must recognize that the problem is not a personal attack on the teacher; it’s a process of identifying deficient instructional methods of the teacher.
Curriculum maps inform a team
The exchange of curriculum lessons in successful schools is done with the use of Curriculum Maps. It is done vertically and horizontally.
Tools that enhance student learning
Note taking is the embodiment of one of life’s greatest skills: LISTENING
How to Take Notes
The Cornell Note-Taking Method
Three sections
Record.
Record the notes in this space (use abbreviations, write in phrases, leave spaces between thoughts). Organization is important.
Reduce
Left column: simple phrases, cue words, key points based on the notes taken.
Review.
At the bottom, write one sentence or phrase that summarizes the notes on the page.
Add any questions that remain, or write ideas for further research.
How to Read a Textbook
SQ3R Method
Survey
Read headlines
Question
What is it about?
Read
Read each section with the questions in mind.
Recite
Orally, answer the questions asked.
Review
Reflect on the questions or the key idea to check for understanding.
Homework as an Extension of Classwork
Homework must fit the lesson objective and the assessment.
Just as effective teachers use guided practice followed by independent practice, homework or home learning should be additional practice to reinforce what was learned in the classroom.
The key word is “practice.” Ask these questions:
What have the students learned in the class?
What can the students do to practice this new knowledge?
Learning Teams Have a Shared Vision
In a shared vision, the leadership is shared among the teachers; the shared focus is on student learning. There is staff collaboration around learning goals; and this is done with a shared decision-making process.
In a school with a shared vision, the leader works on getting everyone to work together. People are connected to, rather than separated from, each other.
Teacher learning teams must meet regularly to see evidence of the following:
Are we teaching to agreed-upon standards?
Is progress being made toward improvement of achievement goals?
In an effective school, the curriculum is constructed for student learning
the less time teachers must spend managing classroom
conflict, the more time they can spend on instruction.
The importance of establishing procedures and routines to free up instructional time is paramount to effective teaching.
The Hallmark of Effective Schools
The era of isolated teaching is over.
Teachers thrive when they feel connected to their schools and colleagues.
Teachers need and want to belong.
The largest achievement gains in student learning ever
reported for educational interventions.
The trademark of effective schools is a sense of community, continuity, and coherence.
Effective schools have a high-performance culture