Teach Like a Champion - Discipline

[@plerpplerp5599]

Good series of videos. Thanks. I have learnt a lot.

[@BryansEnglishClub]

I am happy to hear that. This book was transformational. If you are interested in another good one, have a look at Fred Jones' Tools for Teaching. It provides a lot of actionable advice that can help you keep students on task and help you manage your classroom "mechanics".

[@plgdintoawall]

I completely agree. But I struggle with what procedures I need to plan out and HOW to plan them and teach them. Especially since I see my students once a week and share duties with a coteacher. I'd love to see some examples.

[@BryansEnglishClub]

plgdintoawall it’s a very good question. With such limited time together, it’s best to really narrow your focus. You can’t fight (or win) every battle in that situation, but you can choose a few that are important to you and win those. I suggest starting from the very beginning of class. My student come to me from their hometowns and sometimes they arrive in a state of chaos. (That’s well and good as I can’t control how their homeroom teacher chooses to send them to me.) I stop students at the door and settle them down before they set foot in my classroom. If they aren’t ready to enter, they don’t. Once they have calmed down and are ready to work, I let them in to start the days board work. This controls who goes in, how they go in, and what they do once they go in. For the students who are not yet ready and have to stay outside, I don’t make this time adversarial. I try to help them transition from hallway behavior to classroom behavior. We will chat for a minute and grab a little face time. Once everyone starts to come in like this (it may take a month of practice) I move on to whatever I want to tackle next. If you start off on the wrong foot, you’ll spend the rest of the class trying to correct it.

[@plgdintoawall]

@@BryansEnglishClub thank you. I agree. I've attempted to establish an entrance routine before, but was unsuccessful. I'll try boardwork/bellwork next year in conjunction with this.

[@lordchea]

@@BryansEnglishClub This comment is more useful than the video; the video fails to address the principle that behaviour is heavily driven by school culture - culture that starts with the leadership. To say "Most behavioural problems in the classroom is caused by the teachers failure..." ignores all the factors that surround the room, the school and the society - all of which are beyond the teachers control. Can the teacher make a difference? Of course, that's what we're paid for, but to over-simplify the problem is disingenuous.