My about is, the faculty the adjunct faculty office the workroom that we have.
But it's not just the workroom, it's all the assets and everything that
the school provides us to do our jobs. If I had known where all those were, how to access them.
From the very get go, it would have allowed me to put a better product forward, so we have a tremendous amount of knowledge
we talk about the classroom management, I enjoy just coming in and getting a chance to just interact with other teachers.
I listen to stories I listen to hey, this is what's going in your class and this is how you handled it.
It's like a business case study, those of us that did business
school you listen to how a teacher handles say a disciplinary problem you tuck that in the back
of your mind, 'cause you may run across it, you mayhave to deal with the same discipline issue, this semester or next semester.
so knowing where all of assets are, or having a good orientation program that's critical to anyone starting a job, teaching in particular
If I had only known about the effective classroom management skills
you bring your own, however I think 101, 101 class management would have been
have been great for me, clear expectations, relational strategies, clear goals, how to set clear goals. I think if I had had a balance
because you go in, and you don't really know what to expect, and you kind of take your guidance from the students, but yet they're
looking at you to take guidance from, so I think a balance of both, a collaboration with other instructors would be good for you
You should begin the whole year out with a positive attitude.
You're going to get attitude, but you have to keep positive in it, because students react to you
and so if you're having a bad day they're going to have a bad day
so you need to leave that at home, check it at the door, whatever you need to do
and come in with a positive attitude because those students are coming in especially if they're working
they're coming in off a job, they're coming off trying to get their children settled so they have all of this on the inside of them.
yet they want to get educated so they can grow. So you have to be able to
help them and guide them through whatever is going on, be considerate, be compassionate, yet be stern about
this is the curriculum, this is what we need to do and this is we're going to do tonight.
When it came to my first class, time management was an issue that I had.
I wasn't sure how to take this information from the text book, and what was pertinent what wasn't necessary for the presentation
how to create the presentation, how to add visuals to the presentation, or what I should actually say in the narration.
Should I stick to the presentation or should I add personal stories, so there were a lot of
things here where time management would have been very important to me
because a lot of time was spent trying to figure out what would probably work best best for my students when I was taking a lot of that
time trying to create the maternal for the class, it was taking me away from the discussion questions and interacting with my students so
time management was very crucial there were times where just trying to learn the software I would use to create the narrations.
the first week took me 20 hours, I didn't know how to use the software I was required to use
I didn't know how to create these presentations with narrations and a lot of time was spent
trying to do remedial basic things for the classroom, that would have been better spent elsewhere
where the students would have been able to benefit more from it
I've run across some situations where the text book was a little more in depth than
I would have personally felt would have been appropriate for the students, and their knowledge and experiences
and sometimes the text books will skim over the basics thinking you already
know this and that you know it thoroughly and so then I've got to go in and I've got to do further research and try to figure out
what is this basic material that the text book thinks they already know thoroughly and
how much of that should I incorporate into my presentation of the current material.
I don't want to go into too much remedial stuff because it distracts from the newer material,
but the problem is if they don't understand the basics then I'm wasting my time, with this new material.
So there are times when you have to back up and go outside of the text book and the material that's given to you from the school.
and it all depends on who your student body is.