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Your mindset is everything. Do students feel empowered in your classroom or do they feel shut down? High expectations make the student feel like you think they can do it. If a student feels like they can accomplish the task at hand then they will be more prone to try and try again. Shutting a student down can only damage the student, academically and physically. An effective teacher implements high expectations FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT. Surround yourself with teachers who believe the same and have a positive attitude toward each student and their learning.

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Facebook can be a tool used for learning. Class page will be created jointly with the teacher and students. The class page will have many functions. Discussions can take place pertaining to content being learned. Post sources that follow along with the content. Interactive engagement with other students. Group projects could also be posted online. A Facebook classroom page could create endless possibilities. This would also be a perfect tool for the students to share about themselves. The page will be monitored to make sure the content remains appropriate.

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Have a twitter wall in the classroom. This will contain the topics trending. The topics trending will be the content being discussed in class that week. A hashtag will be created that focuses on the overall unit. It would be interactive where students can ask questions to the teacher or other students by using the handles. We will create individual handles during the first week of school that will be appropriate to use. They could RT sources or tweets that pertain the content by their own research on twitter. By using something that students are familiar with it, the students feel more engaged and more likely to participate in learning.

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A school is almost a second home for students. They spend so much time in these places too learn. Don't make your classroom a burnt out room that is drained of energy. Students should be excited to come to class. Students should feel relaxed at school. A room full of joy is a room full of respect towards learning. YOU CREATE THE ENVIRONMENT! Create a home!!! Create learning.

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Learning your students also includes learning their slang, language. Make the students feel invited by talking like them. Keep professionalism, but maintain a relationship. Using language that is far advance for your students does not create an appropriate learning environment. For effective teaching, use words the students understand. The students will be more receptive and more likely to learn in a classroom that is altered towards them.

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What do your students like and enjoy? What do your students talk about? These are questions that you should always be a seeking out for an answer. By knowing your students, the environment of the classroom shifts. Once the student sees that you are not above them but with them, their demeanor changes. If there is something you notice different about a student find out more and find out how you can incorporate that into your classroom either through instruction, discussion, or decoration.

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The classroom should be culturally relevant by the walls being inviting. The students should feel like their creativity is invited. By creating a blackboard wall or a question board, the students will feel like their opinions and thinking is valued. The classroom should be altered to the students. It should be aesthetically pleasing. When choosing how to decorate the classroom think about the students and their background.

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Teachers start to think they have all the power which in most cases they do. The power though should be used positively. Often students do not raise their hands or offer a comment because they are intimidated to be wrong. Some teachers even scold students who add in something that is not specifically what they asked for. A lot of expanded thinking is shut down in the classroom because the teacher is worried about staying on script. Question should be welcomed. The questions that stump the teacher should be praised. When questions are raised it is obvious the students are engaged in the learning. Stop shutting down thinking and start inviting it.

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Often teachers act like they are far above the students. The teachers act like they are the holder of all knowledge. The teachers design lesson plans for the students but forget what the teaching is all about. While creating lesson plans the teachers forget who they are teaching and how they will get the students to interact with the lesson. Teachers become so wrapped up in the idea of lessons and fulfilling standards that they completely dismiss perfect opportunities of combining context with the content being taught. As future teachers, we need to submerse ourselves in really getting to know our students and their backgrounds. By doing this a bond is formed. The bond that is formed will make the students see that you are really one of them also because you bring in aspects from their life and connect with them through learning. The teacher and student will start to learn together.

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Teacher Has Incredible Handshakes With Each Student | ABC News

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By allowing the students to be more creative and create something from their own life, can create not only a culturally responsive classroom, but an engaged classroom. When students focus a rap or song on academic content they can see how learning can be fun. Tests, tests, and more tests. Let's get rid of this. Create assessments that allow the student to have divergent thinking, not convergent.

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Spanish Conjugation Song - Bringing Conjugations Back

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A remake of "I'm Brining sexy back" by Justin Timberlake a Spanish teacher made to help his students learn how to conjugate present tense Spanish verbs. I do not claim this video as my own.

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Students who do not play the game called school end up hating school because the environment tells them that they do not belong. Make students responsible for their own learning and for the learning of others, cosmopolitanism. Give students options to guide their own learning. Identify a baseline of literacy and numeracy and from there determine what best fits them by allowing them to choose from different classes. Remember that every student has a different gift and talent and those two things can make a students future of who and what they want to do.

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What if students controlled their own learning? | Peter Hutton | TEDxMelbourne

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Students should create and experience while learning. Don't just use the textbook. Hands on activities can create independence and learning from interaction. Make the classroom fun, an area where they love to come because they view learning as fun. Know the class and know what the students like and enjoy. This is where the cogen aspect can come into play. If the students show that they learn better in different ways then do that! Be fearless and go off script. Avoid creating Decepticons by allowing all students to feel invited and celebrated in their learning.

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Trinity Oaks Elementary teacher Kari Greenfield leads her students in a hands-on math lesson.

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These discussions allow the student to feel like their voice is valued and invited. The learning can take place from others and not just the teacher. It highlights that the learning is more of a partnership rather than a dictatorship. It allows the teacher to have insight to how the students learn best and how the students interact to learn. The teacher should observe and take note of how this cogen occurs. Ask them questions that make them think in their way, not just the one answer way. To create a cogen classroom, the teacher needs to take a step back and the students take a step forward.

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Strategies for Student Centered Discussion

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Putting students into the real world learning perspective can help them. Use resources that will push them further. Technology can be helpful and many ways. According to the video for grades 5th-12th, YouTube is the number one search engine. We can not block our students from this. It is a part of their everyday life and we need to allow them to explore
technology that is used 93% of the time to hire new employees. As teachers, it is the job to create successful students and prepare them for the future. I mean that is the purpose of education, right? To create individuals who are independently intelligent and confident in what they can accomplish with their gifts and talents.

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Reimagining Classrooms: Teachers as Learners and Students as Leaders | Kayla Delzer | TEDxFargo

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As teachers it is our job to make the lesson interesting and captivating. By creating a question that sparks the students interests, the lesson begins on an inviting note. The students need to feel like the lesson is relevant to them and teachers do this by making their lessons culturally relevant and responsive. The students will only pay attention for a certain amount of time. So in short, keep the lesson short and intriguing to captivate the students that are  disengaged. Make the classroom important by giving it a new name and a positive reinforcement handshake.

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"There was such exactness in his delivery that there was no way for his students to take his lesson off-script" (Emdin, 2016).

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"There was such exactness in his delivery that there was no way for his students to take his lesson off-script" (Emdin, 2016).

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Life is not scripted. When problems arise there is not always one answer to solve them. There are multiple answers. If we teach our students to never further think for themselves and we feed them answers, how will they be problem solvers? They won't. They will be robots who only can answer question when the answer is a bubble that needs to filled in. Sometimes the answer has to be created, it is not just there. Do not close thinker off to your students. Let them elaborate. Let them think of different situations and things about the lesson. GO OFF SCRIPT. Life is off script always.

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"The best classroom teachers develop ways to make the classroom feel like a family that has its own distinct values, ways of speaking, and power dynamics" (Emdin, 2016). 

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"The best classroom teachers develop ways to make the classroom feel like a family that has its own distinct values, ways of speaking, and power dynamics" (Emdin, 2016). 

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Building a family means creating a place of people where they support and encourage one another throughout life. Creating a classroom that grows to become a family can be one of the greatest assets to a student. The student can trust the learning space they are a part of and feel like their learning is invited and welcomed. Having a family feel to the classroom can break down barriers that the students puts up that could hinder their learning and growth. A family grows together and so should a classroom.

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"I needed to get new tools to give haircuts to people who weren't black because because the texture of their hair was different" (Emdin, 2016) 

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"I needed to get new tools to give haircuts to people who weren't black because because the texture of their hair was different" (Emdin, 2016) 

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Each year as a teacher, new students come in the classroom. They all need different haircuts. They are all different. They all have different interests. They have their own talents and strengths. Treating them all alike could destroy their individuality and make them all walk out of the classroom with the same haircut. Creating every one the students the same dehumanizes the individual by telling them they need to be like everyone else. Learn how to foster different haircuts and know the specific tools needed to keep trimming up the haircut. Make it look nice and make the person feel confident.

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"It turned us from passionate educators into automatons who worked to maintain the schools structures and inequities" (Emdin, 2016)  

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"It turned us from passionate educators into automatons who worked to maintain the schools structures and inequities" (Emdin, 2016)  

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Teachers should be the opposite from robots. They should be inventors, creators, and world changers. If everything a teacher is doing is predictable and can be copied by a robot, then the life of learning is vanished. Expression and feelings are something that robots can not display. How can a child grow to love learning if the teacher does not even portray that? Maintaining structure and the unfairness of a school will only birth more problems, not solve them. If we want students to love learning and be problem solvers, we first have to be the example.

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"Teaching to who students are requires a recognition of their realities" (Emdin, 2016) 

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"Teaching to who students are requires a recognition of their realities" (Emdin, 2016) 

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The first step to being able to teach children from all different backgrounds is to realize that their real life outside of school may not be identical to ours. As a teacher, one should consider this factor when judging how a child is performing in the classroom. Students are just like us. They have multiple factors that collectively make them who they are just like those factors make us. To be able to fully allow the child to grow and love learning, the teacher needs to know the child first. What does the child like? How does the child learn? How does the child connect with the world? What experiences are they bringing to the table? Let the children speak too. The teacher can learn stuff from the children as well. Teaching is a partnership. The reality is that all students are different.