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TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL: TIPS FROM A TEACHER

My first day of teaching was rapidly approaching. I was excited. I was enthusiastic. I was ready to change the world. And then I attended three days of teacher in-services to get ready for the year. I was depressed. I was scared. I was ready to change my underwear. If any of this sounds like you as you’re preparing to teach high school, you are not alone. Instead of getting overwhelmed by what the experts tell you, listen to the advice of a seasoned teacher.

These strategies deal with establishing a framework for positive teacher and student experiences.
Set Clear Learning Expectations: After you’ve set them, communicate them, clearly. Tell students on day one or two what your goals are for them. Since they’re probably not listening, tell them again. Write classroom expectations on the course syllabus. Tell them specific expectations before every assignment. Write down assignment expectations in the form of a
rubric . Write them down in instructions.
Establish Clear Behavioral Expectations: After you’ve established them, communicate them, clearly. Behavioral expectations are best established through your actions. If you expect kids to be on time, for example, you better be ready to crack down on that first tardy kid. Both your learning and behavioral expectations should be clearly stated in your course expectations.
Establish a Routine: Ordinary tasks, such as collecting papers, moving into groups, or getting a book off the shelf, can quickly become chaotic if there’s not an established routine. Take the time the first few weeks of school to go over in detail how things are done. Adjust, if necessary.
Document Everything: This is especially important early in your career when administrators, students and parents may not find you as credible as your more experienced colleagues. Items to document include lesson plans, student conferences, parent contacts, student misbehavior, meetings attended and parent/teacher conferences.
Find a Mentor: If you’re new, find a mentor. There’s another teacher at your school who understands what you’re going through and, more importantly, knows how to help. If it’s someone who teaches the same subject, great. If not, that’s OK. You’re better off learning the ropes from someone competent who teaches a different subject than an idiot has similar interests.

There are certain teaching activities all teachers do, regardless of subject. Use these strategies to make them more effective.
Note-Giving: Teenage attention spans aren’t what they used to be…and they weren’t that good to begin with. Be merciful. Understand that those poor children have been sitting inside a box-sized desk for hours. Be enthusiastic when you give notes. Break up note-taking with fast comprehension activities. Engage students in note-taking . Try Cornell Notes .
Class Discussion: A good class discussion helps students develop critical thinking and public speaking skills. In order for a class discussion, however, to be effective, it must be an actual discussion and not an “I’m the teacher and you’re the students and what I say is right and what you say is wrong unless you agree with me” lesson. Ask open-ended questions. Don’t call on the same students all the time. Thank students for their responses — right or wrong.
Schedule a debate. Make it interesting and rewarding.
Vocabulary: Every subject has subject specific vocabulary. Not all students, unfortunately, bother to learn subject specific vocabulary. That’s a problem. The days of looking up words in a dictionary, copying them down in a notebook, and taking a quiz on Friday are no longer effective. Use learning modalities and
various activities to teach vocabulary .
Collaborative Work: This used to be called group work and consisted of one person finding all the answers and three other people copying them. That’s not as effective as giving each group member a specific role and making each person accountable. Never assign group work as a summative grade. The purpose of a group assignment is to help students prepare and develop skills that you will assess on individual assignments.
Writing and Reading Assignments: Many high school students struggle with reading comprehension and writing competence. Help them help themselves by utilizing graphic organizers. The purpose of graphic organizers is to help students organize information in an intelligent manner. Writing assignments are much more effective when accompanied by a rubric.
One Last Suggestion
It doesn't matter how many world-class teaching strategies you use if you are not
positive and enthusiastic about teaching . This enthusiasm and positivity should be for the content you teach and the students you teach. Do yourself a favor and do not associate with the complainers and whiners in your profession. They'll just bring you down.

THREE INNOVATIVE METHODS OF TEACHING FOR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATORS

One theme that runs through everything we do at Concordia University-Portland is innovation. Sounds like almost everyone else, right? But honestly, it’s a word we don’t toss around lightly—especially when it comes to education. (If you haven’t already read about our first-of-its-kind, 3 to PhD community that houses our College of Education and a public elementary school in the
same building, do so here after finishing this!)
That said, if you’re interested in shaking up your teaching in innovative ways that keep your students engaged and excited—in this very short-attention-span world we live in—we would love to help.
We believe that finding new and innovative methods of teaching is a crucial skill for high school teachers. Brain research has actually shown that certain methods and approaches can truly enhance the learning process, and done right, applying innovative learning and attention-management techniques to classes is a win-win for both students and teachers. Read on.
Visualization, technology tools, and active learning
1. Visualization
It can be very hard for students to understand a list of disconnected facts. Knowledge that is organized and connected to concepts with a goal of mastery, including the ability to visualize the concepts, can lead to the ability to transfer knowledge and to a deeper, longer-term understanding of what is being taught.
Visualization is an especially good teaching strategy for reading and literacy teachers. Check out this lesson in how to use visualization to help students illustrate mental images from a portion of text that is read aloud: Teaching students visualization skills help them understand, recall, and think critically about subjects they study.

2. Wisely managed classroom technology
Computers, tablets, digital cameras, video conferencing technology, and GPS devices can all enhance a student’s learning experience. Possible uses of classroom technology include using video games to teach math and foreign languages, leveraging Skype to communicate with classrooms or guest speakers from around the world, or multimedia projects that allow students to explore subject matter using film, audio, and even software they create.
However, introducing new tech devices in the high school classroom often requires that teachers add an element of educational technology leadership to their usual classroom management. Giving students laptops or tablets, for example, means teaching them to use devices respectfully and preventing damage to the equipment. Tech-savvy teachers gave Education Week the following advice on using classroom technology:
Explain that the use of tech tools in class is a privilege not everyone has—and if abused, it can be discontinued.
During class, teachers should move around the classroom or use monitoring software to ensure students are using their devices appropriately. When they understand that you will intervene if they go off-task, students know they must focus on their assignment.
Put students in charge of the upkeep of devices. Classes can learn tech terms, basic maintenance tasks, and appoint a few students to serve as tech monitors responsible for distributing and storing equipment. Doing this creates a sense of value and ownership for the welfare of classroom technology.
3. Active learning: Peer instruction, discussion groups, and collaborative problem solving
All high school educators dread a roomful of blank faces or silence after they open up a topic for class discussion. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Educational Resources (CER), devoting time to active learning projects is one way to get students thinking, talking, and sharing information in the classroom. The CER publishes a series called The Innovative Instructor that explores these methods.
One particular article in that series, Bring on the Collaboration!, describes a class structure where the instructor leads a short overview of the day’s topic and gives students a challenge to meet by the end of the class, such as answering a question or solving a problem. Students break into small groups to do research online, chart out ideas, and discuss ways to meet the challenge. Groups upload their work to a Blackboard site, where the teacher can then review it. At the end of class, each group shares what they’ve learned with their peers. The results? Higher engagement overall and students were “amazingly” on task during group work.
These are just three ideas for directions you can go in your quest for innovative teaching methods to get your students more engaged. In today’s increasingly creative world, new ideas are sprung nearly every day. Join us on Facebook where we share ideas like these, and much more, with other passionate educators like you.

Best Practices For Maintaining Discipline In Secondary Schools And College

Throughout the history of education in Nigeria and Africa in general, the most common means of maintaining discipline in schools was corporal punishment. While a child was in school, a teacher was expected to act as a substitute parent, with many forms of parental discipline or rewards open to them. This often meant that students were commonly chastised with the cane, paddle, strap or yardstick if they did something wrong. Corporal punishment, often by canning, remains common place in many schools Nigeria and some African countries. Great teachers first learn how to maintain classroom discipline in their academic preparation rather than dishing out punishments.
Educators also learn how to maintain classroom discipline through experience and adapt their basic techniques to the best practices for their current students who might differ substantially from the previous groups. In addition, school teachers usually work in a collaborative environment so they can learn how to maintain classroom discipline and best practices on the job. Disciplinary problems have been listed (Bello, 1981, Arum 2003) as the major concerns for most teachers. A disciplined classroom requires daily maintenance and monthly reflection. This article provides some hints that teachers can use to maintain discipline to ensure smooth and effective curriculum delivery in secondary schools in Nigeria.

Discipline Defined

It is not easy to define the word discipline because of the fact that the word can be used in a variety of ways. For instance, Arum (2003) Glasser (2001) see discipline as conforming in totality to laid down norms and as complete obedience to orders. Bello (1981), martella, Neslon and Marchand view discipline as a means of imparting knowledge and skills. Latham (1997) and Saich (2003) see discipline as simply punishment and control. Classroom discipline is more than all of the above.

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EFFECTIVE TEACHING: HOLD YOUR STUDENTS’ ATTENTION SO POWERFULLY THEY’LL BEG YOU TO STAY LONGER IN CLASS.

1. The Desire Method
The reason it’s so hard for teachers to grab their students attention is because most teachers make the classic’About A Topic’ mistake. The’About A Topic’ mistake is when you teach’ About A Topic’. Whether it’s American History, Chemistry, or any other topic you could possible think of, when you talk’About’ it, you lose people’s attention.
The solution is not to teach ‘About A Topic’ but instead to teach ‘For The Student’. Meaning, the Student needs to immediately feel the benefit of the content you are teaching. When you show a benefit, you create desire. And where there’s desire, you guessed it, you hold attention.
Here’s a quick start to use the Desire Method. As you know, the absolute most important part of effective teaching is how you start. If you begin the wrong way, it’s near impossible to get your student’s attention back. Never start with a typical’Welcome’ or’Here’s what we’re going to learn today’ (classic’AAT’ Mistake). Instead, begin your content with Headlines and with Hooks.
A Headline is a short sentence that boils down the core benefit of being part of the class. For example, take a look at what you’re reading right now: You’re reading this sentence now because it began with a Headline that caught your attention: 4 New Effective Teaching Methods To WOW Your Students.
A Headline is a Promise. What can your content promise your students? If you delve into your students minds, you’ll discover exactly how they want to learn, and, trust us, they’re hungry for wisdom. But they need to see how your content is a benefit for them. For example, learning about the American Revolution could show them how to be an effective leader, how to bring about a movement of change, the principles of starting something new (whether it’s a company or a country or an app), etc. Or, the better a student is at Mathematics (whether it’s 4th grade math

DISCIPLINE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (A STUDY OF SELECTED SECONDARY

Disciplines and academic performances are the core of our today’s education. Some scholars have attributed poor performance of students in academic to high level of indiscipline among students while others disagreed. Nevertheless, it becomes imperative in recent times that many schools have traded away discipline and as a result led to poor academic performance of students. This study was carried out to establish the relationships between schools discipline and students’ academic performance. The study employed cross sectional research survey design in which questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection in addition to interview guide and document review. Simple percentage and Chi-square statistical method were used to analyze the data. However, the findings of the study clearly showed that effective school discipline should be encouraged in controlling students’ behaviour thus affects students’ general academic performance.

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SKILL IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS BUT EDUCATION IS THE PROCESS TO SUCCESS!

School is the basis of education in all countries. School leads to many differing job choices in life, and can help you achieve the career you would like to be in, while also making more money.
Being smart in school can help you keep morale up and achieve better grades . Here are ways to be a smart student at school.

1. Pay attention in class . If you don't, you might not understand what your teacher is teaching you. Do not talk to your friends or pass notes. Refrain from daydreaming as this can cause you to lose focus completely. Dedicate yourself to studying and learning the curriculum.

2. Be prepared for school at all times. Eat your breakfast and bring everything you need before leaving home. In class, make sure all books that you need are with you.

3. Follow instructions. If you follow the instructions your teachers are giving you, you will be a smart student in no time! If you don't follow instructions, you may misread a question, which will affect your exam grades.

4. Study . Always study so you can memorize what you have learned. Your teacher might give a little quiz from time to time about everything you learned before, and if you're not prepared, you will not do well.
Study for all your exams and tests. Don't do it one day before the test/exam, though. You will never remember anything after the test.

5. Become more organized. Being organized will help you find the right papers at the right time. Being unorganized will probably lead to missing papers and homework. Bullet journaling is very helpful, but if you don't want to bullet journal you don't have to. A binder and planner pages work just as good.

6. Finish your homework on time. It's very important! It gives you the practice that you need to prepare you to be ready for a test or an exam. Treat all homework like a test paper. Think homework as crucial, and if you don't finish it you're not going to graduate.

7. Prioritize. Which is more important, Facebook or your homework? Always set up a schedule and plan ahead. Do the stuff that is more important first before anything else.

8. Take down notes in school. Whenever the teacher is talking non-stop and you can't remember your lessons, write down whatever he/she is saying. Go home and revise lessons. If you have problems you can always ask the teacher after class hours.
Don't copy everything down, though. The teacher will probably be talking too fast. Instead, write the main ideas and then ask the teacher about the rest.

9. Mix with the right friends. Don't mix with those friends who call you a "nerd" or a "study freak". Sometimes it can bring you down, leaving you upset and, in some situations, you may let go of your studies completely because of them. Just be nice to them and tell them why you want to study hard. If they can't accept it, then it's fine. Socialize with different circles of friends who have the same interests like you and accept you for the person you are.

10. Sleep early. Sleeping early can help you become fresher in the mornings and can help you think clearly. If you don't sleep early, you will be very sleepy in class and you will lose focus. A teen needs about 8-10 hours of sleep a day. Make sure that you at least get 8 hours into your sleep routine.

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How to Be a Smart Student in School
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School is the basis of education in all countries. School leads to many differing job choices in life, and can help you achieve the career you would like to be in, while also making more money.
Being smart in school can help you keep morale up and achieve better grades . Here are ways to be a smart student at school.
Steps
Pay attention in class . If you don't, you might not understand what your teacher is teaching you. Do not talk to your friends or pass notes. Refrain from daydreaming as this can cause you to lose focus completely. Dedicate yourself to studying and learning the curriculum.
Be prepared for school at all times. Eat your breakfast and bring everything you need before leaving home. In class, make sure all books that you need are with you.
Follow instructions. If you follow the instructions your teachers are giving you, you will be a smart student in no time! If you don't follow instructions, you may misread a question, which will affect your exam grades.
Study . Always study so you can memorize what you have learned. Your teacher might give a little quiz from time to time about everything you learned before, and if you're not prepared, you will not do well.
Study for all your exams and tests. Don't do it one day before the test/exam, though. You will never remember anything after the test.
Become more organized. Being organized will help you find the right papers at the right time. Being unorganized will probably lead to missing papers and homework. Bullet journaling is very helpful, but if you don't want to bullet journal you don't have to. A binder and planner pages work just as good.
Finish your homework on time. It's very important! It gives you the practice that you need to prepare you to be ready for a test or an exam. Treat all homework like a test paper. Think homework as crucial, and if you don't finish it you're not going to graduate.
Prioritize. Which is more important, Facebook or your homework? Always set up a schedule and plan ahead. Do the stuff that is more important first before anything else.
Take down notes in school. Whenever the teacher is talking non-stop and you can't remember your lessons, write down whatever he/she is saying. Go home and revise lessons. If you have problems you can always ask the teacher after class hours.
Don't copy everything down, though. The teacher will probably be talking too fast. Instead, write the main ideas and then ask the teacher about the rest.
Mix with the right friends. Don't mix with those friends who call you a "nerd" or a "study freak". Sometimes it can bring you down, leaving you upset and, in some situations, you may let go of your studies completely because of them. Just be nice to them and tell them why you want to study hard. If they can't accept it, then it's fine. Socialize with different circles of friends who have the same interests like you and accept you for the person you are.
Sleep early. Sleeping early can help you become fresher in the mornings and can help you think clearly. If you don't sleep early, you will be very sleepy in class and you will lose focus. A teen needs about 8-10 hours of sleep a day. Make sure that you at least get 8 hours into your sleep routine.
Ask for help as necessary. This will make sure you get the most out of your education.

12. Never let anyone bring you down. If you're planning to go to a good college and you're always reading books in school because of that, never let any of your friends demoralize you. If they call you a "nerd", that is fine; but you can choose to ignore them instead of absorbing their teases or stopping your studies. They are the ones who will regret when the exam results are out and they didn't score well.

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Martin is a teacher who knows how challenging classroom management can be. His first few years of teaching were rough; he made many mistakes as a disciplinarian, including classic mistakes like trying to be his students' friend and then coming down too harshly when they overstepped the murky boundaries. Every day felt like a battle, and it left him exhausted. Things turned around when Martin stepped back and took a close look the types of misbehavior he was seeing, and then investigating why.
One of the most important components of effective teaching is classroom management.
Classroom management is the action teachers take to keep their classroom running smoothly throughout the year, enabling their students to succeed. Things like organizing the environment and setting, communicating clear expectations, and providing instruction that keeps students attentive and focused are all methods of classroom management.
Types of Student Disciplinary Problems
Like most teachers, Martin can easily identify
disciplinary problems . Students act out in a variety of ways, impacting their own ability to learn as well as those around them. Some of the types of disciplinary problems that are most common are:
Disrespect - students speak and act in a disrespectful way to adults and peers
Defiance - students openly refuse to listen to adults or follow directions
Bullying - students consistently intimidate others, often to make themselves feel better
Aggression - students become physically or verbally violent
These high-level disciplinary actions need to be addressed. Martin learned that student misbehavior on this scale isn't always a result of poor management, but instead stem from reasons outside the classroom.
Students' Choices
Martin started observing his students and attempting to find causes for their poor choices. Once he stopped to consider the reasons behind his student's behavior, he was able to objectively work toward finding solutions and helping his students make better choices in school. Many different things impact a student's behavioral choices, most of them out of the student's control. Things like a poor home life, interactions with peers, racial and cultural pressure, and illegal behavior outside of school, all filters into the classroom.

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