Transcript Classroom Management - Mr. Primeaux's Website

Student Engagement through
Classroom Management
2007/2008 School Year
“Super Week”
Gregg Primeaux
Garden Grove High School
[email protected]
7/21/2015
Agenda/Topics to Be Covered
• Introduction
• Agendas
• Classroom management
and student engagement
• Q&A
• Evaluations/Pay vouchers
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“Good teaching is onefourth preparation and
three-fourths theater.”
-Gail Godwin
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What is classroom
Management?
• involves a positive classroom
environment
• effective management of routines and
transitions
• appropriate standards of behavior for
students
• student engagement
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Positive Classroom Environment
• Personal Relationships
• Meet and Greet
• Using Drama techniques
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Take a genuine interest
Talk to them/Listen to them
Allow them to be themselves
Be active/participate on campus
• Don’t Clock In and Clock Out
• Wall of Fame
"The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is
to listen."
- Roy E. Moody
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Appropriate standards of behavior for students
• Students should be aware of the teacher’s
expectations
• Limit the number of rules that you have
• Try not to have too many rules
• Be Respectful of yourself, your classmates and
your school
• Guidelines should be distributed in writing for
both students and parents during the first
week of school
• Speaking with students calmly and patiently
will help in maintaining consistency and
fairness to all students
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Student engagement
• Have high expectations
• Don’t ever say “My students can’t do that”
• “HOT” Questions
• Higher Order Thinking on Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Whether students work individually or in groups,
they should be held accountable for engagement
in and completion of the task at hand
• Provide a Student-Centered learning environment
in which students can become engaged in the
learning process
• When student engagement goes up behavior
problems go down
• Finding a hook to grab the students attention
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Student engagement
Agendas
• Choose a format that is teacher
and student friendly!
• Use the same routine.
• No surprises.
• Have the agenda up BEFORE the
students arrive.
• Examples
• Use your agenda at back to school
night.
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
-Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
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BT
12 Agenda 10/16/06
SENIOR CONFERENCES
BT
Standard 12.1.5
Bill of Rights/Check and
Balances Wksht
Homework
1 & 4: GM 15/5; 16/1 (HP)
3: GM 245-250; 252-259 (HP)
10 Agenda 3/13/07
BT
Go Over Test
Introduce Standards
10.8.4/10.8.6
Homework
Bring Book Tomorrow!!!!
10 Agenda 3/13/07
BT
Go Over Test
Introduce Standards
10.8.4/10.8.6
Homework
Bring Book Tomorrow!!!!
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10 Agenda 3/13/07
BT
Go Over Test
Introduce Standards
10.8.4/10.8.6
Homework
Bring Book Tomorrow!!!!
10 Agenda 3/13/07
BT
Go Over Test
Introduce Standards
10.8.4/10.8.6
Homework
Bring Book Tomorrow!!!!
Mr. PrimeauxCivics & World History
1 Agenda 10/11/06
Welcome Parents
Please Sign In
Introduce Myself
Go Over
Expectations/Standards
Homework
Please Sign In
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Standard 12.1.3
Explain how the U.S.
Constitution reflects a balance
between the classical republican
concern with promotion of the
public good and the classical
liberal concern with protecting
individual rights; and discuss
how the basic premises of liberal
constitutionalism and democracy
are joined in the Declaration of
Independence as “self-evident
truths.”
Agenda Ideas
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Map
Chart/Graph
Quote
Test taking skills
Math problem
Quick write prompt
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
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Classroom Management and Student Engagement
• White Boards
• Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
• Index Cards “Cards of
Death”
• Phone a friend
• Pair Share
• Important Date Board
• Announcement Board
• Ticket out the door
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HOT Questions
• Analysis
• How would you explain __________?
• What evidence can you list for ________?
• Why do you think __________?
• Synthesis
• Can you predict the outcome if ___________?
• What changes would you make to revise ________?
• What could be combined to improve (modify) _______?
• Evaluation
• How would you decide _________?
• How would you criticize the ideas ________?
• What choice would you have made ______?
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Ticket out the Door
• Create a question dealing with the standard/objective
covered in the lesson.
• HOT questioning strategy
-OR• Have a general question that would cover all lessons
• What was today’s objective
• Which activity helped you best understand today’s
objective
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Question and Answer
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.”
-Colin Powell (1937 - )
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Thank you for attending
Have a great 2007-2008
school year!
If you have any questions
please don’t hesitate to
e-mail or call.
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Current Events
Did you pay attention
during your summer
vacation???
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Question #1
Which high ranking
government official
resigned from office
last week?
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Question #1 Answer
Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales
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Question #2
Which celebrity
tragically attempted
suicide within the last
few weeks?
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Question #2 Answer
Owen Wilson
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Question #3
Which Team won the
Little League World
Series this summer?
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Question #3 Answer
Georgia
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Question #4
Which country had a
devastating 8.0
earthquake this
summer?
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Question #4 Answer
Peru
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Question #5
Which celebrity spent
82 minutes of the 4
day sentence in jail?
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Question #5 Answer
Nicole Ritchie
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Question #6
This NFL superstar pled
guilty to dog fighting and
is awaiting sentencing on
December 10th
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Question #6 Answer
Michael Vick
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Question #7
This month marks the
10 year anniversary of
the death of this royal?
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Question #7 Answer
Princess Diana
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Question #8
Which real estate
billionaire left $12
million dollars to her
dog Trouble
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Question #8 Answer
Leona Helmsley
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Question #9
What was this weeks
#1 movie in the box
office?
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Question #9 Answer
Superbad
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Question #10
Which actor plans to
announce his candidacy
for President September
th
6 , via webcast?
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Question #10 Answer
Fred Thompson
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