In my classes at school I have the best behavior when I have the most participation and I have the most participation when I have planned an engaging lesson. Here are some tips:
Now you may wonder where are the incentives like filling the jar for good behavior etc. and where are the get attention sayings/songs? Where is the stand and wait until everyone is listening? I don't use them because these work. (My 3,2,1 and we're back is all I use, with a very occasional "I'll wait.") Do they work immediately? No, it took me about a month with this group of children when I became chorister this time around in Jan. They soon found that they loved the songs we were singing and boy do they sing out. I had only 8 for Father's Day and everyone could hear them. As a side note: this year at our school we stopped doing rewards for expected behaviors. As one of the children said when we rolled it out "we shouldn't get a reward because we sharpened our pencil when we were supposed to." It has been amazing! There are no longer any what do we gets? or I don't like that. Do we still do challenges? absolutely! In my post where I talk about the class that can line up in 8.47 seconds that is a challenge that I have had for the first quarter. But, most importantly we focus on creating engaging lesson plans, solid teaching practices like proximity, and clear instructions. This is
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Here are my tried and true tips/tricks based upon my past experience, CFM, Preach My Gospel, and also using my teaching strategies/philosophies that I also use in my day job.
Most are simple directed listening (Focused Attention) based for easy memorization and then also focusing in on topics for internalization of the Gospel messages. Lot's of my different ideas on a few pages :) Archives
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