MOTIVATION AND INSTRUCTION
Teachers who are ____________ in their limit setting are accustomed to encountering resistance.
Ineffective
Negative messages have the ______________ of their intended effect
Opposite
What is the key ingredient for building positive relationships?
Encouragement
What is an important leg of the four-legged table that supports an effective classroom?
Student engagement
Tyler's teacher feels disrespected. She will not let him go to recess until he writes one hundred times that he will not be disrespectful. What is Tyler's teacher teaching him(page 31)? Does this create cooperation or resistance?
Resistance; She is teaching him that hurtful statements are an acceptable way to motivate others to cooperate.
Teachers who are ______________ in their limit setting expect cooperation but also recognize that children are most likely to cooperate when asked in a ___________ (two words)
Effective; respectful manner
Why do negative messages backfire?
Their focus is misdirected
What should be the focus of our message when it comes to encouragement?
Basic training goals:
effort, better choices, acceptable actions, cooperation, independence, and improvement
Why are engagement strategies important?
They pique students' curiosity about a topic before we even begin to teach a lesson.
You call on a student to give the answer to your question. The student says that he doesn't know. What do you do? (page 36)
a. Skip him and go to the next person
b. Ask him what he does know and encourage him
c. Embarrass him and ask him why he doesn't know
b. Ask him what he does know and encourage him
What two directions do teachers head in when it comes to motivating children?
1. Take a positive approach and use generous helpings of encourage and rewards to inspire behavior they want
2. They take a negative approach and rely primarily on threats, punishment, and coercion to force children in cooperating.
T/F :
It is okay to stand with your hands on your hips when you are frustrated?
False
Erik Erikson said children want to be ________ and _________
Skillful; competent
What is the picture walk strategy
-look at pictures
-ask questions
-make predictions
-challenge them to tell the story
-point out important details
-pair up, report, and predict
You ask Jane to do give an answer to the math problem on the board. She said she didn't do it and forgot how. What do you do? (page 55)
a. Work through it together
b. Skip over to the next person
c. Tell her she will never pass the third grade
a. work through it together.
Jane would have lost the opportunity to work through the problem. By working through it together, you hold Jane accountable for her learning and help her build skills and confidence.
Encouraging messages leads to ________________
Cooperation
T/F:
You can ask others what they think of a student's behavior
False
What should be the major goal of every classroom?
Preventing academic discouragement
What is teaching to mastery?
Teaching students until they master the subject matter.
T/F:
You shouldn't play games in the classroom to further learning.
False
Discouraging messages lead to ___________
Resitance
T/F:
Daily behavior charts that include misbehavior are okay to display in the classroom
False
What does a truly safe classroom encourage and invite?
Students to take risks, stretch intellectually, think critically, attempt difficult tasks, and make mistakes in the pursuit of learning
What is the most powerful and effective strategy of keeping students engaged throughout the lesson?
The way we call on and respond to students during instruction
What three things does an effective teacher have/do?
2. Good classroom management
3. Teach for lesson mastery