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Re: Failing Student Teaching
Posted by bill on 7/10/08

Here are four things to think about that will help you not only survive
your student teaching but will help you thrive! The first thing is to
think about yourself as a leader with a team/teams to lead this year in
your classroom. Where do you want to take them? You have to have a
clear vision of what you want to accomplish with each group. For
example in my room, my goal is to create a positive, safe learning
environment where individuals can work together to achieve team goals
while striving for personal best. Once I know what my vision is I have
to think about how I am going to work with them to make it a shared
vision. I do this by trying to think of a win-win situation that they
will get excited about and want to work to attain.

Secondly, start thinking of team building ideas/activities that you can
share with your team. You can't throw a bunch of people together and
expect them to magically start working as a team. Think of activities
that you can have them all participate in that will help them to tear
down walls and start to build trust in your room. Use theatre books,
corporate training books, or TRIBES to come up with some team building
activities. Also, www.educationworld.com has some great team building
activities.

Third, list out all the procedures you think you will want your students
to follow in your room each day and create a plan to teach, model, and
practice a couple procedures each day the first two weeks of school so
you don't have to teach them ever again the rest of the year. This will
allow more time to teach to the curriculum this upcoming year.

Finally, think about 5 rules or less that you can establish and
consistently enforce right from the start of the year. You may want to
have your students help you do this the first day or class session so
they have some ownership with them. Remember, if you don't enforce your
rules your rules will be worthless. Know this; the kids WILL test you
to see what the boundaries are going to be in your room. This is one
test YOU can't afford to fail.

Lastly, if you want to hear more about these four strategies, go to
www.gomiem.org and you will see a picture of me (Bill Cecil). Click on
the picture and a six segment, FREE video will pop up for you to
download and view. Go to segments 4-6. That is where I am talking
about these with a group of teachers. This is totally free! Good
luck. Bill

On 7/09/08, Sue wrote:
> On 7/09/08, Daddy-o wrote:
>> On 6/27/08, to everyone.. wrote:
>>> 4) to Kate: How to fail student teaching.. Writing how DO one..
>>> as in "How do one write formal lesson plans in this school,
>>> (or deal with a student who's been chatting all class, etc.)..
>>> is a good start. I'd forgive one mistakes/type-o like that,
>>> but the second time my ST wrote or said "how do one" I'd be
>>> telling them they are at risk for failing if they can't show
>>> they have mastered basic grammar. (I do teach Spanish so I'd
>>> cut a native Spanish speaker (who's first language is not
>>> English) some slack on grammar.. but otherwise "how do one"
>>> is totally unacceptable.)
>> On 6/24/08, Kate wrote:
>>>> Okay, I'm about to begin student teaching soon. I would like
>>>> to know how do one fail student teaching? What should I be
>>>> on the look out for?
>>
>> Lets count the number of mistakes the grammar cop made in just this
>> one paragraph alone!
>>
>> "I'd forgive one mistakes/type-o like that, but the second
> time..."
>> - "mistakes" should be singular, not plural
>> - "type-o" should be "typo"
>>
>> "(who's first language is not English)"
>> - "who's" should be "whose"
>>
>> I'd say the poster you were trying to correct and belittle showed
>> much better grammar skills than you did (fewer mistakes anyway).
>>
>> Let's drop the condescension and stick to supporting one another
>> and our students!
>
> Very well put!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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• Failing Student Teaching, 5/21/08, by A Wife.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 5/22/08, by Darren B..
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/12/08, by ??.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/24/08, by Kate.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/25/08, by Teacher.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/25/08, by Kate.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/27/08, by to everyone...
• Re: I'm to everyone.., 6/27/08, by OOPS no ing on fail, sorry nfm.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/29/08, by MSR.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/29/08, by MSR.
• Re: Rafe Esquith had to do student teaching twice, 6/29/08, by that puts things into perspective at least for me (nfm).
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 6/30/08, by Kate.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/01/08, by Very Veteran Teacher to Kate.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/01/08, by Tammy Urban.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/09/08, by Daddy-o.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/09/08, by Sue.
• Re: Failing Student Teaching, 7/10/08, by bill.