A few more secrets to improve student achievement:
- Recommit to teaching EVERY day.
- "What you do speaks so loudly I can't hear what you say." Be careful of your body language. Do you use your desk as a barrier to your students? Or are you so close you can reach out and see their eyeballs?
- Some kids will do what ever they can to push your buttons.
- Great teachers can be successful with a group of students no matter what time of day they are scheduled to teach them. No excuses....
- Lots of discipline issues from a classroom implies the teacher is weak.
- Must be an excellent classroom manager. Don't let obstacles get in the way of instruction, such as kids up all the time sharpening pencils, going to the bathroom, etc.
- Relate all lessons to REAL life....their lives. If a baby is being taught to talk, you wouldn't give them a worksheet.
- The textbook is a resource... Teachers must hook kids into learning.....so be a good "hooker" ha ha!
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