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Please read the following chapters and respond to the discussion questions by May 4. After crafting your response, please comment on the responses of at least two other class members. The questions follow on the next page.


Chapters 10-12

Chapter 10 Key Concepts
Ability to Ignore
  • Great teachers are aware of almost everything that happens in their classroom, and they know which situations demand immediate attention and which can wait for a more appropriate moment.
  • Effective teachers model self control; their classroom management is grounded in their ability to manage their own behavior.
  • Great teachers do not automatically react everytime a student steps a little out of line.
  • The great teacher has the ability to pay attention to students, to recognize and praise their achievements, and the ability to overlook minor errors.

Chapters 11 and 12 Key Concepts
Random or Plandom? Base Every Decision on the Best People

  • Great teachers have a plan and purpose for everything they do. They reflect on what did and did not work and adjust accordingly.
  • Great teachers take responsibility for what happens and plans for success. Less effective teachers allow classroom events to happen randomly and then blame others when things do not work out well.
  • Great teachers expect and plan for appropriate student behavior by ensuring that certain students do-or do not-work together. Great teachers proactively anticipate student misbehavior and plan to eliminate it before it occurs.
  • Great teachers intentionally arrange, rearrange, alter, and adjust the structures that frame their teaching.
  • Great teachers do not try to prove who is in charge of their classroom, everyone already knows.
  • Great teachers always treat students as if their parents were in the room. They deal with students who disrupt learning but do it respectfully.
  • Great teachers do not teach to the middle. They ensure that all students are engaged.


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1. Great teachers ignore certain behaviors in the classroom because the teacher realizes in the scheme of things, minor errors will occur because they are working with children. By not overreacting to every minor situation, students realize that they are not going to be able to "push your buttons" and in turn, the student will see the teacher modeling self-control- a skill that effective teachers want to give each child.
2. Most students misbehave because they want attention.
3. Self-fulling prophecy-If your told enough that your behavior or your performance is not good enough, at some point you will believe and then shut down.
4. Great teachers have the ability to recognize how much attention to giver their students.
5. Great teachers have a plan for everything that happens in their classroom. If it doesn't work out as they expected, they make adjustments to improve.
6. Great teachers take a proactive role in dealing with behaviors. In other words, they expect certain behaviors and have a plan for dealing with them. Ineffective teachers simpley react to situations with no forethought.
7. Effective teachers model self-control; their classroom management is grounded in their ability to manage their own behavior.
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