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Tips for Teachers: Lunch Choices

Earlier I began a new section in education at Families.com. This section is titled Tips for Teachers. In this section I have been offering advice for teachers based on my own experience and the experience of others. I have found throughout the years that the more responsibility the teacher can place on the students the faster and easier tasks can be accomplished. Such tasks that come to mind when I think of handing over some duties to the students include morning routines. Most schools require teachers to collect money, take attendance, and record a lunch count for the day. These … Continue reading →

Tips for Teachers: Keep All Notes Sent to You by Parents

Today I am adding another article to my Tips for Teachers section. I think that it is very important for teachers to learn from the mistakes of other teachers. My tip today is about paper work and noting keeping. It is very important to create a file for each child in your classroom. You can then add all of the notes from and to parents to the file. I keep all notes that are sent to me from parents no matter how simple or small they may seem. This I am thankful for doing. Last year I had a parent … Continue reading →

Prizes for Good Behavior?

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In a previous article, I discussed various procedures that teachers use to report behavior to parents. In addition to reporting a student’s behavior, a teacher must also manage a student’s behavior while the child is in the classroom. Teachers do this in many different ways. I can remember the standard way of monitoring student behavior while I was in school was the name and check system. If a child misbehaved, the teacher would write the child’s name on the board. If the child continued to misbehave he or she would receive check marks beside of his or her name. Today’s … Continue reading →

Classroom Rules

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In Harry Wong’s book, The First Days of School, he introduces how effective teachers begin the school year. In his book, he discusses why and how teachers should introduce rules and procedures. Kindergarten is a very important year for teaching students how and when to carry out particular activities. I will devote the first few days of school to strictly teaching routines and procedures. When discussing rules, Wong suggest that teachers only have three to five rules. After reading Wong’s reasoning, I very much so agree. Wong points out that all numbers we are to memorize are in groups of … Continue reading →

Concerns of Public Education: Y = Yelling

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It has been a couple of days since I addressed my concerns and perks of public education series. There are two letters left to discuss in the alphabet. The letters Y and Z are next on my agenda. A concern for public education is yelling. Throughout my years of teaching I have noticed that adults tend to think that being louder gives them more control. However, I have also discovered that when adults continuously discipline children by using loud voice tones such as yelling, the children simply learn to tune-out the noise. In moments of frustration and feelings of lost … Continue reading →