Classroom discipline

[PerfectPrinting]

Hi guys,

I am currently a graduate teacher (in my last year of uni) and have just recently completed a prac. While on prac when it came to classroom discipline I found that there was no real strategy that was consistently used rather a hybrid of therioes.

Saying that I really found it hard to inspire/motivate lazy students (teaching business) and as a result some students started slipping quite dramatically academically.

Just wandering if anyone has any ideas or words of wisdom?

Thanks

[Brit]

check out power teaching. I'm still learning about it, but i'm finding that the better I impliment it, the more enthusiastic my class is.

[mercygate]

check out power teaching. I'm still learning about it, but i'm finding that the better I impliment it, the more enthusiastic my class is.Did you take a seminar? Or have you just worked it out on your own.

I am planning to use this for my 6th grade catechism this year (talk about kids being unmotivated!). I'm themeing my class as an archaeological field expedition and have a lot of structure to my class to which I plan to add power teaching.

How long have you used it? How much power teaching do you do in a class session?

Thanks.

[Ima Teacher]

I don't think that there is ONE system that works for all teachers all the time. It's best to research a lot of different ones and see what works for your situation.

Our school uses Randy Sprick's CHAMPs program for our primary management plan . . . but plenty of us also use things from Harry Wong, Rick Wormeli, and Fred Jones. I also use some Kagan TeamBuilding and ClassBuilding activities.

The main thing is to pick something and be consistent.

[Brit]

all I know about power teaching I've found online -- and I've been trhough it pretty exhaustively, I think. I've introduced some methods into my room, but I'd love to go to a seminar and get more of it. Unfortunately, the seminars are in the wrong country, and in the wrong part of the wrong country to be convenient for me.

So far, I use class/yes, the scoreboard, and I've just introduced teach/okay into my room. we're working on getting it figured out. the pacing is what I have to nail. that and making sure the kids really "get" the call/response and what "teach/okay" means.