Training Sessions:    Effective Teaching Strategies

 

Classroom Management

Brain-Based Learning

*  Slide Show   Do your Expectations Affect the Classroom? *  Smart Start:    - Read Teacher Talk by Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement    - What is Your Classroom Management Profile?     Profile Organizer   *  Smart Start:  TOP TWENTY TIPS (Saved in your folder.)   * What is an engaged learning learning environment?    How does effective classroom management support engaged learners? (Word doc)    NCREL Engaged Learner Indicators    Current Practice Survey by NCREL    Engaged Learner Indicators Checklist for the Classroom    Is there a need for critical thinking skills?      Classroom Management Ideas: * Classroom Management: Notes * The Environment    Class Materials    Seating Charts    Flow Charts    Collecting Productivity    * Organizing the Curriculum    Lesson Plan Templates    Substitute Folders    Bloom's Taxonomy    Critical Thinking Skills- Verb List    Developing Units- Checklists    PowerPoint Templates   * Managing The Students    Organizing Their World: Beginning of the Year    Entering the Classroom: Maximizing Academic Time    Ticket-Out-The-Door    Study Logs    Motivation Hints    Time-On-Tasks: Timers       * Assessment Time-Savers    Rubric Generators    Self-Assessment     * Keeping It ALL Together    To-Do List    Creating a Memo Template    Agenda Template    On Line Timer    Calendars    Techie Tips    Time Management:   Weber Associates Site    Time Management Tips         Reflections       * Missed Session Assignments: Be sure to label all with name and session. 1. Take the Classroom Management Survey and record your results. Reflect on the results and submit to the instructor. 2. Review the links to classroom management strategies. Design five strategies to support your protégé during the Attitude Phases of New Teacher's First Year. Use this template. Submit to the instructor. These may NOT count toward your project requirements. 3. Describe the engaged learning environment for your students. Explain how classroom management assists in supporting the engaged environment. Address the variables: Vision of Engaged Learning, Tasks for Engaged Learning, Instructional Models and Strategies for Engaged Learning, and Student Roles for Engaged Learning.       Brain Based Learning:    * Slide Show   * Smart Start: Puzzle * Smart Start: Brain-based Learning (Respond and Print) * Smart Start:  Dendrite Presentations (Saved in your folder.)   *  Working with the Brain     Memory Tools     Rocket List     STAR Teachers Go for It - Template     STAR Teachers Go for It - Example     *  Brain-Based Learning Group Activity      Brain-Based KWL Chart            12 Design Principals         Funderstanding       Probe the Brain       Brain Quiz     Quiz Organizer       University of Nevada       Eric Jensen: Where's the proof?       Brain-Compatible Classroom       Multiple Intelligences       Brain Based Learning       *How To Differentiate Instruction       * 101+ Teaching Tips With The Brain In Mind         An Overview of Brain Based Learning       Reflections: What demonstrates that you model a Brain-Compatible Classroom?         Educational Terms     Projects   * Reflections:  Brain-Based Learning     * Missed Session Assignments: 1.Read the handouts for the Brain Based Learning Group Activity. 2.Make a Power Point presentation on one of the areas. 3. Locate at least 3 sites, not included on this page, that support classroom management and send the URLs to the instructor. 4. Use MS Word to record and send 4 specific methods of addressing brain-based learning in your classroom as a model to a new teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

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