Professors… or anyone using See Me After Class to train pre-service teachers:
This chapter-by-chapter guide is specifically tailored to readers preparing for the first year of teaching, which leaves you more time to develop that lesson on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
(more…)Here are some questions to guide you and your teacher book club through See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers.
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Classroom management is a series of straightforward rules tested by millions of teachers and proven to work: Clearly lay out rules and procedures in advance. Have a specific chain of consequences for misbehavior, and give positive reinforcement for following rules. Create a classroom culture in which students respect each other and want to learn. Of course, as any teacher can tell you, planning engaging lessons has a lot to do with this. Most important, be consistent.
Well, you knew all this. In fact, you spent a long time making a “star chart” with each child’s name on a star, and explaining, “We are all stars in this classroom!” You have already informed them they have the chance to become “shining stars,” or even “superstars” by behaving well. Unfortunately, they could also end up as “falling stars” if they don’t follow the rules, which are printed in positive language on a large poster at the front of the classroom.
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I once took a writing class with screenwriter Claudia Forestieri—who has gone onto great success in Hollywood and whose then-in-progress TV series, The Gordita Chronicles—has now been picked up by HBO! Claudia broke the peer editing process down into three parts, and I’ve been using a version of this system with my own students ever since.
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At the end of my creative writing workshops, sometimes with only fifteen minutes left of the final class, someone inevitably asks, “So, how do we get our work published?” People also ask this question when they find out that I am the big-time sm medium-time author of the breakaway, international bestseller moderately successful books See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers and Adequate Yearly Progress: A Novel. Depending on the situation, I give one of three answers to this question: