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Jamie LaCava-Owen

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  • 3. Establishing Rules. Establish a set of classroom rules to guide the behavior of students at once. Discuss the rationale of these rules with the students to ensure they understand and see the need for each rule. Keep the list of rules short. The rules most often involve paying attention, respect for others, excessive noise, securing materials and completion of homework assignments.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      As we learned in Brain Rules, it is also important to repeat the rules many times, especially for younger students.  
  • 5. Learning Names. Devise a seating arrangement whereby students' names are quickly learned. Calling a student by his or her name early in the year gives the student an increased sense of well being. It also gives a teacher greater control of situations. "JOHN, stop talking and finish your work" is more effective than "Let us stop talking and finish our work".
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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This technique helps us as teachers remember students names.  It deals with brain rule 6, where we need to remember to repeat the same behaviors so that we are able to engrain names in our memories.  
  • 4. Overplaning Lessons. "Overplan" the lessons for the first week or two. It is important for the teacher to impress on the students from the outset that he or she is organized and confident of their ability to get through the syllabus.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      Overplanning is necessary for brain rule 4, attention.  If students are left to their own devices, they quickly lose attention and will start doing what they want to do.  It important to over plan so that students remain engaged throughout the class period.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This also helps students remember what is taught to them, if they are paying attention!!
  • Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
     
    This website focuses on the very essential teching practice of classroom management.  This is specifically geared towards elementary- high school classrooms, where structure is necessary all of the time.  i chose this because it relates to Brain Rules 5 and 6.  Repetition is EXTREMELY important for elementary, middle, and high school students when it comes to teacher expectations and policies.  This gives good advice to teachers to help them manage their classrooms.  
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice - 0 views

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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      We see here that the use of technology is vital to teacher student bond.
  • and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. WebCT Tip: Provide students examples of "A"-quality work. Release statistics along with grades, so that students can see how they are performing as compared to the rest of the class (stats can give the mean grade and/or the frequencies). Use the "Selective Release" feature to release course info only as students achieve a certain level of success on a test.
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      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      I find that teacher modeling is one of the most important parts of teaching English.  As a 6th grade teacher, you have to teach students how to think about things so that they will be more effective and critical thinkers in the future.
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  • WebCT Tip: Stick to a template for course page design *but* vary the types of excercises and assignments.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This is very important, as we have learned through our articles.  Technology allows our students to look at things in different ways and learn in a way that is best for them.  
  • WebCT Tip: Use the Discussion Board, Mail, Chat & Whiteboard to interact with your students.
Jamie LaCava-Owen

Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “So if there’s anything else on your desk right now, please put that inside your desk.” He mimics what he wants the students to do with a neat underhand pitch. A few students in the front put papers away. “Just like you’re doing, thank you very much,” Zimmerli says, pointing to one of them. Another desk emerges neat; Zimmerli targets it. “Thank you, sir.” “I appreciate it,” he says, pointing to another. By the time he points to one last student — “Nice . . . nice” — the headphones are gone, the binder has clicked shut and everyone is paying attention. Lemov switched off the video. “Imagine if his first direction had been, ‘Please get your things out for class,’ ” he said. Zimmerli got the students to pay attention not because of some inborn charisma, Lemov explained, but simply by being direct and specific. Children often fail to follow directions because they really don’t know what they are supposed to do.
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This is a very interesting technique that works well for 6th graders.  In order to get the students attention, you need to give them precise and clear directions.  Often, if they notice each other make sudden movements, they will begin to model that behavior.  
  • A teacher’s control, he said repeatedly, should be “an exercise in purpose, not in power.”
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    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      This point is a very important teaching tool.  Policies and procedures need to be constantly repeated so that they become long term memories for students.  At the age of 11, many of my students do not recognize the inappropriate behaviors that they constantly do.  My constant reminders make them aware of their behaviors.  I can see when they are about to make a mistake and then they say to themselves, "Oh...I'm not supposed to do that." 
  • which Lemov attended, the students don’t raise their hands — the teacher picks the one who will answer the question. Lemov’s favorite variety has the teacher ask the question first, and then say the student’s name, forcing every single student to do the work of figuring out an answ
    • Jamie LaCava-Owen
      Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
       
      We do this at my school.  The fact that every student is forced to be held accountable for the answer at any time forces students to pay attention in class.  When students assist each other with coming up with the answer, it actually helps them remember in the future.  They end up learning from each other, explaining the concept in a different way.
  • Jamie LaCava-Owen on 12 Oct 11
     
    This article, though lengthy, is very interesting.  You really have to get towards the middle to get into the meat of the article.  This relates to all of the Brain Rules (4, 5, 6) that we have discussed in the past three weeks of class.  
Betsy Long

Computers in the Composition Classroom - 0 views

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Hawisher Selfe computers classroom students

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Hawisher & Selfe say that because computers are in classrooms everywhere now, teachers have to revamp their strategies for teaching. They can't just take their traditional methods and throw in computers. There is a better way!
Shelley Rodrigo

What is Web 2.0? (Simple definition, please!) - 0 views

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ENGL665 web2.0

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  • Web 2.0 is an Internet jargon term used to describe the newer generation of websites that are about "User-generated" content
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      Shelley Rodrigo on 29 Sep 11
       
      Like that it focuses on user generated content...as a writing teacher, students are "writing" as users.
Betsy Long

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  • Betsy Long on 12 Oct 11
     
    Now that there are computers in school libraries, library specialists and instructors have a responsibility to make sure students are using the computers while following certain regulations.
Dionne Wesley

CollegeWriting.info--A Free, Full-Text Writing and Composition Textbook, Handbook, Edit... - 1 views

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Learning to Write for all areas

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      Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
       
      This site is cool. A student can find out how most writing techniques are created and they have examples. The site is set up for the visual learner in templates. The templates allow the student to stay organized and it breaks down the process to product..
  • CollegeWriting.Info
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  •    Welcome to CollegeWriting.Info!  This Web book is an online, full-length college, AP, and basic writing textbook and professional resource--the most complete and practical writing textbook on the free Web.                     Are you a student?  CollegeWriting.Info is easy to read and highly practical, with more information than other free college writing textbooks on the Web.  It is a community with many houses, each with different rooms: CollegeWriting.Info has dozens of chapters on academic, professional, literary, and creative writing, all containing a variety of helpful descriptions and examples.  Most chapters offer multiple focuses for both beginning and advanced writers, and for classroom, personal, or professional use.  Navigation is simple, with both visual and textual links to other pages and sites, to sample papers, and to related readings.  Why is this book good?  Here is a 4:45-min. video showing you why having a highly practical (and free) guide to real writing is important in our world: "A Vision of Students Today": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.                            Are you an instructor?  CollegeWriting.Info is a genre- and community-oriented textbook with an emphasis on learning-centered, writing-intensive instruction useful in most beginning and some advanced undergraduate college courses in composition, writing across the curriculum, literature, speech, and writing in other disciplines.  A section for basic writers is included, too.  CollegeWriting.Info also can help you and your students easily explore other online writing resources, with links to some of the Web's finest sites containing usage and mechanics, argumentative and other nonfiction essays, and full-text literary classics.  In addition, CollegeWriting.Info provides instructor-oriented essays on--and links to--theory and pedagogy, listings of academic writing organizations and resources, and many other helpful professional links.  For more about the author and the development of this Web textbook, see "About the Authors."  For more about the theory behind this textbook, see "Teaching Strategic Experience."                 
  • Dionne Wesley on 12 Oct 11
     
    A composition site for college students
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