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3 Facts
1. Try not to raise your voice and keep your tone in check
2. Talk positive
3. Don't tell a student you are calling home.

2 ideas
1. Make sure that you address the issues head on but in a manner that promotes engagement and response.
2. Planning an activity that makes sense.

1. What would be the long term effect of doing this?

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3 Facts:
1) Don't put too much in one day.
2) Use hand signals and non-verbal communication.
3) Classroom Rules need to be addressed in the clearest way possible.

2 Interesting Thoughts
1) I am interested in the idea of not making your tests too hard. I understand helping build confidence, but I am also curious how to know when to draw the line between "easy and rigorous"
2) I find it interesting to use a differentiated tone, but to use the appropriate natural tone.

1 Question
How does the dressing casually on Fridays affect the view of the students when being told to not dress casually.

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3 Facts

1. Don't talk over students.  Wait until they are quiet.
2. Watch your tone. Students mimic
your noise level.
3. Don't try and cover to much in one day.

2 Interesting ideas
1. Always having an activity to follow a lesson is good but what about time constraints with schedule/pacing.  Somedays you do not have enough time to get all activities in.
2. Boosting students confidence on tests is important, however would rigor be lessened if we cut certain types of questions.

1 Question

If you do not allow students to call out, will whole class discussions be hindered. It seems sometimes students are more willing to speak when they don't draw their classmates attention to them by raising their hand.

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3 Facts about the articles
Clear rules are important.
Tone is huge.
Students cannot sit and get for 90 minutes.

2 Interesting Ideas
You have about 10,000 effective words a day.
Making tests "less" hard...

1 Question you still have
Is it really not okay for students to feel comfortable enough to speak out to the class without being called on?

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3 common mistakes are
1. Teaching too much in one day
2. Making tests too hard
3. Telling a student you are calling home

2 interesting points are
1. Having a student activity I think helps lead to engaging lessons
2. We talk about being more rigorous all the time, but us new teachers often make the mistake of making a test too hard.

1 question
What are other ways to combat a chatty class besides waiting to be quiet?
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3 facts
- don't teach too much in one day
- don't make tests too hard
- speak only when students are quiet and ready

2 interesting ideas
- I felt like the do's and don'ts of teaching put a lot of pressure on teachers to be perfect immediately. There's some good advice but it feels wrong to tell new teachers that students will lose respect for them with every mistake they make.
- I like the goal of always having an engaging activity with a lesson.

1 question
- It seems like there's a lot of contradictory advice about how to build relationships with students. You either need to spend a lot of one-on-one time getting to know them or you need to draw a hard line until you have their respect?

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3 Facts
-Watch your tone and volume- students will mirror yours
-Overplan, but don't teach too much in a day
-Don't teach a lesson without some form of activity for the students

2 Interesting Thoughts
-Don't send kids to the office. Most students are scared to go to ISS/the office, but repeat offenders don't seem to mind.
-Always having an "engaging" lesson. Sometimes you have to work on skills (primary source readings, maps, etc.) that are not incredibly engaging to the students, but differ from you giving you instruction the entire time

1 Question
Kids should always raise their hands? Maybe so, but as a high schooler, I know that it took a lot of guts for some people to raise their hands. I encourage students shouting out answers in my classroom because they seem more willing to answer than face the fear of being wrong in front of everyone. Also, what about when they get to college and shouting out answers leads to discussion --> this is a normal college classroom.
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3 Facts
- Use positively worded rules
- don't teach too much in one day
- Don't make tests too hard

2 Interesting Thoughts
- Avoiding mistakes in teaching is stronger than in most other professions. I have found that when I admit to mistakes the students are more forgiving than judgemental. They see me as more human.
- Always have a well-designed, engaging lesson. The class and I don't always agree on what is engaging. Having backup projects is a great idea but sometimes hard to find.

1 Question
- I am not a fan of collective punishment but doesn't it have its time and place? For example, you have used up all of your tricks to get your class back on task but they do not want to continue the lesson, instead they want to socialize. This could be a good time for a pop quiz. This quiz could "punish" both the attentive students as well as the ones that are choosing to socialize instead of complete their class instruction.

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3 Facts

- Don't tell a student you are calling home.

- Teachers only say about 10,000 words before students stop listening.

- Use a normal voice when speaking in front of a classroom - not necessarily always a 'teacher voice.'

2 Interesting Thoughts

- I thought it was interesting that the article said 'do not be indecisive.' However, we are told often to be flexible.  Sometimes I feel that those two go hand in hand.

- Planning the activity first is an interesting thought but it makes sense. It reminds me of how your should create your test before you teach a unit.

1 Question

- Collective punishment is obviously bad, but isn't the suggestion given in the article a modified collective punishment?

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3 Facts you learned

2 Interesting Points

1 Question you still have!