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Prospective Teacher Needing Help

by Amy Bundy

Jan 30, 2013

Hey everyone! I am a prospective teacher getting ready to student teach in the Fall of 2013. I wil have assignments through this year to post on here questions I have to help me get prepared for student teaching. My first question is: What are your most common disciplinary problems? Thanks for all your help!

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Jack Hi Amy,

Probably my biggest behavioral problem was getting kids' attention for brief periods in class, like if I want to interrupt for a minute to make a clarification or observation to the whole group. I don't have a lot of time with my classes, so I want this to be an efficient interaction.

One thing I've learned is that if th...See More

Feb 13, 2013

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Devin M. I think one of the biggest things I deal with is how distracted students become when someone else walks in the room. They feel it means that all rules are off so they can start talking; or if they know the teacher or person, they have to share whatever is on their mind with them. Establishing what is expected of your students when someone walks in ...See More

Feb 15, 2013

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Fiorella Velarde Hi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they would work well with projects methodology instead of individual assignments?

Thanks, Fiorella

On 2/01/13, Sara wrote: > On 1/30/13, Amy...See MoreHi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they would work well with projects methodology instead of individual assignments?

Thanks, Fiorella

On 2/01/13, Sara wrote: > On 1/30/13, Amy Bundy wrote: >> Hey everyone! I am a prospective teacher getting ready to >> student teach in the Fall of 2013. I wil have assignments >> through this year to post on here questions I have to help >> me get prepared for student teaching. My first question is: >> What are your most common disciplinary problems? Thanks for >> all your help! > > The answer to that varies from school to school and grade to > grade. It's a silly question really - college professors who > have never taught in any classroom other than a college > classroom give out such assignments. > > I teach Middle School - the most common discipline problem in > Middle School is simple class disruption. It's hard for middle > schoolers to sit still and there's little that's fun in the > middle school curriculum. The kids get bored, some have extra > short attention spans, some have real problems and you have to > keep everything in relative order. > > That's the most central thing to your job - keeping relative > order - and how you do that varies from class to class and > certainly from teacher to teacher. There is no one way that > works for every teacher. > > Others might tell you that getting kids to do homework is a > discipline problem. Fewer and fewer kids do homework but I > don't see it as a discipline problem - it's in another > category. I rarely give homework because it causes more > problems than it solves. > > Keeping safe order is every teacher's most important job > because unless they're in safe order, nothing else good can > happen and the kids and their antics and issues that pose a > challenge to safe order are every teacher's greatest > discipline issue. > > >

Feb 16, 2013

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No. nfm On 2/16/13, Fiorella Velarde wrote: > > Hi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful > age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still > retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they > would work well with projects methodology instead of individual > assignments? > > Thank...See MoreOn 2/16/13, Fiorella Velarde wrote: > > Hi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful > age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still > retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they > would work well with projects methodology instead of individual > assignments? > > Thanks, Fiorella > > > On 2/01/13, Sara wrote: >> On 1/30/13, Amy Bundy wrote: >>> Hey everyone! I am a prospective teacher getting ready to >>> student teach in the Fall of 2013. I wil have assignments >>> through this year to post on here questions I have to help >>> me get prepared for student teaching. My first question is: >>> What are your most common disciplinary problems? Thanks for >>> all your help! >> >> The answer to that varies from school to school and grade to >> grade. It's a silly question really - college professors who >> have never taught in any classroom other than a college >> classroom give out such assignments. >> >> I teach Middle School - the most common discipline problem in >> Middle School is simple class disruption. It's hard for middle >> schoolers to sit still and there's little that's fun in the >> middle school curriculum. The kids get bored, some have extra >> short attention spans, some have real problems and you have to >> keep everything in relative order. >> >> That's the most central thing to your job - keeping relative >> order - and how you do that varies from class to class and >> certainly from teacher to teacher. There is no one way that >> works for every teacher. >> >> Others might tell you that getting kids to do homework is a >> discipline problem. Fewer and fewer kids do homework but I >> don't see it as a discipline problem - it's in another >> category. I rarely give homework because it causes more >> problems than it solves. >> >> Keeping safe order is every teacher's most important job >> because unless they're in safe order, nothing else good can >> happen and the kids and their antics and issues that pose a >> challenge to safe order are every teacher's greatest >> discipline issue. >> >> >>

Feb 17, 2013

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Sam On 2/16/13, Fiorella Velarde wrote: > > Hi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful > age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still > retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they > would work well with projects methodology instead of individual > assignments?

I'm n...See MoreOn 2/16/13, Fiorella Velarde wrote: > > Hi, I'd love to teach Middle School... really. It's a wonderful > age in which children already grasp abstract concepts but still > retain some innocence towards the world. Do you think that they > would work well with projects methodology instead of individual > assignments?

I'm not sure what you mean - do you mean several projects on a given subject? Do you mean group work on a project?

In any case, no is my answer. Some college professor out there invented the idea of putting 'projects' into schools. When I went to school, there were no 'projects'. No dioramas, no posters, no presentations, no projects. Now that projects have become an embedded and seemingly significant part of curriculum - I don't see any great improvement. Some kids seem to like projects, some kids hate them, some kids struggle with them and other kids just don't do them. Some parents do do them and some parents absolutely loathe them and don't want to do them or have their children doing them.

A lot of elementary and secondary education rests on the assumption that kids will remember what they are taught and in my experience, that's often not true - regardless of how it was taught or the number of projects they did. Individual assignments and projects if need be should further the basic skills - reading, writing and math - but often projects are filler - they help to fill the school year.

My children are grown but I did groan when they came home with projects. Build a model of the solar system - we did that one three times. Make a tourist brochure for the Middle Ages. Rewrite the Constitution. Make a Facebook page for Abraham Lincoln... > > Thanks, Fiorella > > > On 2/01/13, Sara wrote: >> On 1/30/13, Amy Bundy wrote: >>> Hey everyone! I am a prospective teacher getting ready to >>> student teach in the Fall of 2013. I wil have assignments >>> through this year to post on here questions I have to help >>> me get prepared for student teaching. My first question is: >>> What are your most common disciplinary problems? Thanks for >>> all your help! >> >> The answer to that varies from school to school and grade to >> grade. It's a silly question really - college professors who >> have never taught in any classroom other than a college >> classroom give out such assignments. >> >> I teach Middle School - the most common discipline problem in >> Middle School is simple class disruption. It's hard for middle >> schoolers to sit still and there's little that's fun in the >> middle school curriculum. The kids get bored, some have extra >> short attention spans, some have real problems and you have to >> keep everything in relative order. >> >> That's the most central thing to your job - keeping relative >> order - and how you do that varies from class to class and >> certainly from teacher to teacher. There is no one way that >> works for every teacher. >> >> Others might tell you that getting kids to do homework is a >> discipline problem. Fewer and fewer kids do homework but I >> don't see it as a discipline problem - it's in another >> category. I rarely give homework because it causes more >> problems than it solves. >> >> Keeping safe order is every teacher's most important job >> because unless they're in safe order, nothing else good can >> happen and the kids and their antics and issues that pose a >> challenge to safe order are every teacher's greatest >> discipline issue. >> >> >>

Mar 11, 2013

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