Session+2--Classroom+Management

Wow! And I bet you thought your week would be bor-ing! You can always count on me to provide you with fascinating, stimulating and extraordinarily useful information to make your transition to teaching rich, smooth and chocolaty.

Here are the websites that might help you with your management plans. http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html http://www.honorlevel.com/techniques.xml http://atozteacherstuff.com/Articles/Classroom_Management/index.shtml

This says it's for English teachers, but it has great information for everyone. http://www.teacher2b.com/discipline/discistr.htm

Read and learn. The Importance of Wait/Think Time (in case you don't believe me) http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/1884.shtml

In order to be a successful teacher, you must know your own learning style and strengths. You will also need to overcome your reliance on what works for you and create lessons that focus on your students' learning styles.

Take the Quizzes on these sites and print out or note the results. Bring to class.

Multiple intelligences: []

Hemispheric dominance: []

Read these articles and visit the links contained within them. You need to know your students' cognitive development in order to plan activities that they will find interesting and manageable. You also need to know what/how their brains are thinking.

Cognitive Development []

Print out the charts on this page. They will be very helpful to you []

Here's another link on Cognitive Development []



That's probably enough. Contact me with questions or comments.