The author provides a lengthy list of mistakes to avoid in the classroom. Choose 20 of the 50 that you feel may be of trouble to you in your classroom.
Create a chart something similar to the example below and then answer the reflection questions.
1. What did you learn about yourself during this activity?
2. How might you use this information in your classroom?
EDN 375 Chapter 4 Common Mistakes to avoid in the classroom 1. Inadequately attending to long-range and daily planning 2. Emphasizing the negative. 3. Spending too much with one student or one group and not monitoring the entire group. 4. Pacing teacher talk and learning activities too fast. 5. Standing too long in one place. 6. Falling into a rut by using the same teaching strategy or combination of strategies day after day. 7. Poorly or inefficiently using constructional tols. 8. Relying too much on teacher talk. 9. Talking to and interacting with only one half of the class. 10. Using "shhh" to quiet students. 11. Using poor body positioning. 12. Using global praise. 13. Interacting with only a "chosen few" students rather than spreading interactions around to all. 14. Not learning and using students names. 15. Not monitoring for understanding during seat work. 16. Using poorly worded, ambiguous questions. 17. Trying to talk over students noice. 18. Introducing too many topics simultaneously. 19. Taking to much time for an activity. 20. Being uptight and anxious.
Questions: #1. That i am a little bit paranoid about time. I am also paranoid about not learning students names. Also i will need to work on being specific about giving praise to individual students instead of global praise.
#2. I will use this information to keep me more calm, get me to slow down, and to be more open to flexibility concerning time of activities, and time in class.
EDN 375 Chapter 4 Common Mistakes to avoid in the classroom
ReplyDelete1. Inadequately attending to long-range and daily planning
2. Emphasizing the negative.
3. Spending too much with one student or one group and not monitoring the entire group.
4. Pacing teacher talk and learning activities too fast.
5. Standing too long in one place.
6. Falling into a rut by using the same teaching strategy or combination of strategies day after day.
7. Poorly or inefficiently using constructional tols.
8. Relying too much on teacher talk.
9. Talking to and interacting with only one half of the class.
10. Using "shhh" to quiet students.
11. Using poor body positioning.
12. Using global praise.
13. Interacting with only a "chosen few" students rather than spreading interactions around to all.
14. Not learning and using students names.
15. Not monitoring for understanding during seat work.
16. Using poorly worded, ambiguous questions.
17. Trying to talk over students noice.
18. Introducing too many topics simultaneously.
19. Taking to much time for an activity.
20. Being uptight and anxious.
Questions:
#1. That i am a little bit paranoid about time. I am also paranoid about not learning students names. Also i will need to work on being specific about giving praise to individual students instead of global praise.
#2. I will use this information to keep me more calm, get me to slow down, and to be more open to flexibility concerning time of activities, and time in class.