Classroom Management

From your readings and the IRIS video information (including the research IRIS references on behavior), create and share a brief set of research based approaches (three to five) you intend to use as a new teacher or school counselor.

According to Edward Deci:

If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation? No, says psychologist Edward L. Deci, who challenges traditional thinking and shows that this method actually works against performance. The best way to motivate people—at school, at work, or at home—is to support their sense of autonomy. Explaining the reasons why a task is important and then allowing as much personal freedom as possible in carrying out the task will stimulate interest and commitment, and is a much more effective approach than the standard system of reward and punishment. We are all inherently interested in the world, argues Deci, so why not nurture that interest in each other? Instead of asking, "How can I motivate people?" we should be asking, "How can I create the conditions within which people will motivate themselves?"

In this blog, share your thoughts, experiences, and reflections about how motivation works and does not work within the public schools setting.  Are you seeing examples of support for student autonomy?  

How can we as educators and school counselors support student autonomy?  Strategies?  Approaches?   

What are you noticing about Gender Bias, Ability Grouping, students with Special Learning Needs?

In your clinical placement please share some of your observations about gender differences/bias, are if students are grouped by ability and how that occurs, and they way students with special learning needs are provided for in your setting. Are you noticing other students that are marginalized?  Can you describe that?

Culturally relevant pedagogy

Identify two quotes that you embrace in your teaching or your work as a School Counselor. Reflect on why these ideas are valuable to you as a counselor or teacher.

Jensen 1, 2, 3

Read Jensen chapters 1, 2, and 3. 

In Chapter one, identify three significant ideas the author introduces.

In chapter 2, select two rules of engagement you believe to be essential in the work you do with children or adolescents and select a minimum of one “solution you can use” and state why you picked that solution. 

In chapter 3 Jensen identifies five actions to create a positive class climate. Which two are you most committed to and why?

Henton chapters 4 and 5

Read Henton chapters 4 and 5. For both chapters four and five; identify five key ideas or concepts, select three ideas you might try to implement in your classroom or work as a School Counselor, and briefly explain why, and finally, identify two ideas that are interesting but seem too difficult to consider implementing and explain why. Submit these ideas to this Discussion blog by midnight, Feb. 5.

As Soon As She Opened Her Mouth

Identify a quote from a section of this article that caused you to have a strong reaction. (no more than 150 words). We will be sharing these in our small group discussions.