Why are 21st-century children maturing at a much later age than they did in the past? Does the education system in general and teachers in particular play any role in this new phenomenon? How does our preoccupation with large-scale testing, fixed curricula, and classroom management strategies to maintain control and allow us to teach keep …
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Teachers often wonder why they still have classroom management problems when they have followed all the best advice on implementing teaching strategies to control student behavior. But one major cause of problems that teachers face has nothing to do with how they organize the class or interact with the students. Knowing this one cause will …
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Why is it that a student who works very well in one class is so disruptive in another? There are potentially many reasons, but the first one we need to examine is the relationship that exists between the teacher and the student. Marzano outlines three classroom management types: Rules/Rewards Punishment, Listening, Confronting/Contracting. In a Rules/Rewards …
In the last post we started discussing how to become an effective teacher. We began by discussing Robert Marzano’s book “Classroom Management That Works”. He talks about four management factors that have a direct impact on student performance. Rules and Procedures Disciplinary Interventions Teacher-Student Relationships Teacher’s Mental Set Each of these four factors taken on …
What does it take to be an effective teacher? Robert Marzano, in his 2003 book “Classroom Management That Works”, discusses the importance of effective schools and effective teachers in the academic growth of students. One startling research statistic that he reports is that a student who enters a school at the 50 percentile in academic …
