This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
December 1-8 Question of the Week
I feel like I have improved in the area of engaging my students in the classroom and lab more this semester than ever before. I think learning, experimenting with, and implementing different teaching strategies have made a positive change in my students' desires to learn. This is very encouraging. I feel like I still need to improve on classroom and lab management. I always seem to have a few students that just won't stay on task no matter what. This causes great distraction and interference with the other students' learning and ability to focus and to stay engaged.
What you express in your post is very true. I feel this semester is one of the best I have had out of the past five. I can only measure the success of the class by the comments of the students. I have received nothing but good comments from the majority of my students. There are always a few students that will be totally negative about the class no matter what you do. I have learned to stay with the positive comments and do not dwell on the negative ones. It is a fact that no matter how well you are prepared something will go wrong. (Murphy’s Law) The students that are never on task will always be a challenge for teachers that care.
ReplyDeleteHi, Leonard - Mark had a great response to your post and I agree, although you should be doing private and parent conferences, behavior contracts, counselor interventions/schedule changes, and hands-on behavior management for those off-task students. Many times they are bored so make sure they have plenty to do and, as we have discussed in NTI, they may respond well to leadership roles.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you I have threaten to call kids parents who want stay on task sometimes it works some times it's a failure. I don't like to show up students in class, But I called a student parent during class from our class phone. Whatever the student heard from that phone call was life changing I have no problems keeping her on task now. Sometimes they need to know a parent phone call can be a class period away.
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