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Emily Morrison explores four areas of Parent/Teacher Communication with elementary school teachers. Parents and teachers have a common ground in their deep care and concern for the child's success. The presentation includes suggestions for introductory, ongoing and scheduled parent communication so that it is a regular part of the school week and parent is ever surprised by a report card grade. Ms. Morrison gives you the keys to creating and maintaining a dynamic partnership.
Award-winning teacher, Emily Morrison, guides elementary teachers through the process of establishing a system of simple, fair, and effective classroom rules and consequences that work for all students. This is a critically important first week task that sets the tone for the entire school year. The presentation includes suggested first week activities that reinforce an understanding of classroom rules, ideas for classroom meetings that serve as an aid to discipline, and methods for establishing fair procedures and non-material rewards that give emotional satisfacton.
Follow Emily Morrison through the many paths to assessing and grading students fairly and accurately. Ms. Morrison explains Informal, Interim, Formal and Special Needs Assessment and illustrates how their use results in a comprehensive view of student progress and valuable teacher feedback. Keep current with grading and assure that you can "Make the Grade" with accuracy and ease.
Join award-winning teacher, Emily Morrison, as she brings her dynamic hands-on approach to the important first few days of the school year. This video contains specific practical ideas for setting up an enriching, positive classroom environment. Empowering students through structured choices, creative jobs and job charts, and a simple plan for regular and meaningful communication with parents are a few examples of the many substantive topics that are covered.
Excellent yearlong resource contains thought-provoking questions for faculty discussion on ten different topics. Faculty and student interviews form a basis for generating discussion on topics such as: Economic vs. Cultural Issues; Cultural Cliques; Teaching from the Heart: The Classroom as Family; Teaching Subject Matter vs. a Broader Value Role; and How Can the Administration Improve the School's Cultural Environment for Faculty?
Increase your sensitivity to universal needs through a creative visualization exercise. Examine the attributes of a culturally sensitive teacher. Explore teaching strategies that may smooth the way when cultural issues come to the foreground.
Become familiar with how cultures may differ in what their members' value. Study the different traditions and value preferences between the dominant U.S. culture and other cultures. These include divergent views of family relationships, how children are disciplined, how the teacher is viewed, and how extended family may be called upon to confer with the child's teacher.
Reflect on your personal cultural beliefs and biases as you create your own cultural genogram. Review cultural value preferences and see how your cultural background is brought to the classroom and is just as much a part of the classroom as your students' backgrounds.
Communication is the core of understanding. Learn how understanding communication styles of different cultures will help you understand what is being said - and what is NOT being said.
Prevent and manage high-level incidents in the classroom with this DVD.
Severe or acute behaviour problems are one-off high-level incidents that occur infrequently, but are so serious that they can cause teachers to question their own professional competence. Such problems present a high risk of damage to property and also to personal safety.
With this DVD you learn how to:
deal with acute behaviour situations
explore effective systems for gaining help
protect yourself from physical and psychological attack
This Chronic Behaviour Problems DVD demonstrates how to:
Reduce incidents of chronic misbehaviour in the classroom
Encourage students to make good decisions about behaviour and return to "on task" behaviour
De-escalate, rather than escalate, the situation
Demonstrate a hierarchy of intervention.
The DVD starts by identifying chronic behaviour problems, those constantly re-occurring problems that are difficult to stop and wear you down as a teacher, challenging your professionalism. Such problems include fidgeting and lack of attention (disruptive and non-disruptive), agitated movement, rudeness, not bringing the right equipment, wearing the wrong uniform, calling out, leaving their seat, interrupting the learning of others by chatting or making physical contact and refusal to comply with clear instructions.
The DVD then continues by exploring a hierarchy of teacher responses ¡V to use the least intrusive intervention in the shortest time. These responses include the look, secret signal, physical proximity (move in/move out) praise proximity, hurdle help, warnings, comply time, antiseptic bouncing, self-calming, timed reminders, rewards and consequences.
Dave also gives the teacher personal tips on being a positive person and explains how that will consequently then get a more positive result from the students. Such tips include positive body language, eye contact, sincerity, voice matching and intonation, verbal language, response style and empathy.
The DVD continues with looking at a problem-solving model and coming up with five different solutions then testing those solutions as to whether in a classroom situation they work, are safe, feel good and are fair.
Next Dave explores the benefits of one-to-one meetings: meeting the student and describing the problem and working with them to find a way forward.
Then finally the DVD concludes with a question and answer session with teachers in the audience, giving them suggested strategies for their own personal experiences of chronic behaviour problems.
This comprehensive resource will help you to build a culture of positive inclusion in your school and significantly reduce the use of exclusion strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviour. How to End Exclusions promotes a proactive approach to the key areas of student disaffection through Prevention, Provision and Re-engagement.
How to End to Exclusions shows you how to not only reduce exclusions but also how to create an inclusive ethos within your school/classroom. Creating and using the unique 'Behaviour Dashboard' will enable you to take an objective view of your school or classroom and will also accurately demonstrate progress in the key Ofsted areas of Behaviour and Safety.
This resource is designed to help students make better choices regarding their behaviour and for staff members to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent exclusions taking place, provide appropriate provision for students in danger of exclusion and to ensure reintegration programmes are successful.
Create an interruption-free teaching and learning environment.
Chronic, low-level behaviour problems can have major detrimental effects on both teaching and learning. This resource gives effective and practical advice to enable teachers to teach and students to engage actively in the learning process. It deals with the top low-level student behaviour issues which give cause for concern to teachers in the classroom:
Answering back
Constant attention-seeking behaviour
Refusing to comply or take responsibility for actions
Complete in-house training programme to help improve lunchtimes with everything you need to identify problem and hotspot areas, set up training activities and create an action plan.
This very practical resource was developed following requests from primary, secondary and special schools on how to better the lunchtime experience for both staff and pupils. Staff were concerned about chaotic dining rooms, problem behaviour on the playground, poorly trained and de-motivated lunchtime staff as well as teaching staff having to deal with problems which begin during the lunch break and spill over into afternoon lesson time.
Manage challenging classroom behaviour more easily with this DVD.
This DVD helps you understand challenging behaviour in a classroom situation and shows you how to apply this knowledge to develop a calm and confident teacher response.
Using different styles of approach you learn how to:
adapt your body language and verbal language
use personal space for best effect
develop your own self-calming strategies in managing difficult behaviours
Discover how to implement quality Circle Time in secondary schools with the leading expert Jenny Mosley.
Quality Circle Time has been highlighted as a core methodology for delivering the SEAL curriculum, but it can also be used in PSHE sessions, curriculum lessons and with tutor groups. In this DVD Jenny Mosley offers professional and practical advice on how to run a circle time session. Following a brief introduction she outlines the five skills that are essential to successful circle time:
Thinking
Looking
Listening
Speaking
Concentrating
The DVD is devoted to a Quality Circle Time session with Year 7 ¡V filmed in a school location and led by Jenny in which all of the above is put into practice. The group session is followed by a teacher question-and-answer session where Jenny offers invaluable guidance borne from her years of experience as a master circle time practitioner and trainer.
This CD-Rom has been written for busy teachers and subject leaders. It offers a wealth of practical information and gives comprehensive advice and strategies on a wide range of issues that will help with the responsibilities of being a teacher.
This CD-Rom provides helpful information on the following areas of teaching:
This CD-Rom has been written for busy teachers and subject leaders. It offers a wealth of practical information and gives comprehensive advice and strategies on a wide range of issues that will help with the responsibilities of being a teacher.
This CD-Rom is full of helpful information for teachers covering areas such as: