- “Act” like a teacher - confident, calm, and in control (of self). If you get angry, try not to show it. (Sarcasm doesn’t work, either.) Treat students with respect.
- Establish classroom procedures from the beginning: coming in, assigning seats (helps you learn names and your substitutes will thank you), procedures for distributing and taking up materials, procedures for cleanup and leaving the room.
- Be prepared. Have everything you will need for your classes handy so you don’t waste time looking for things (while students wait). Lay out everything you will need for the next day before you leave for the day. (Keeping the room organized will also help).
- Keep students busy from the moment they walk in the room. Over prepare. Always have a backup plan if a lesson doesn’t take as long as you thought it would. Be flexible.
- Constantly move around the room, checking for understanding, and giving assistance as needed, while also being aware of everything else happening in the room (eyes in back of head, radar, etc.).
- Don’t turn your back to the class to help one student. Move so that you can scan the room as much as possible.
- Have consequences for both preferred and undesirable behaviors. Try to catch students doing things well and praise them.
- Use cues to get students’ attention (clapping hands, bells, other kinds of sounds). I had a cleanup bell and used clackers and other noisemakers.
- Do not let students leave their seats without permission or direction (helpful with very young students and large classes).
- Write better lesson plans than you have to. It will impress your administrators and make you a better teacher.
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I have to improve on 8,and 9.
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Congratulation for your methods and free teaching way!I agree with ''your Ten Best Practices For Managing The Art Room''. I teach in this way, many years ago, since now.The only change I have, is that I have music during the lesson. It helps students to be focus in their work, and they can not speak together. The music is be sellected by me, classic, Modern (Jan Mishel Jarre, Crisfiris , Yiannis, Vaggelis papathanasiou, etc.), without words as usual, for free fantasy.I think that my method is good, because all(students and parents), are liking my lessons and the resalt is good.Kisses from Greece.
ReplyDeleteLast year, I had an especially difficult 4th grade class. I found a few art games online and as the kids worked on the lesson I walked around giving paper 'tickets' to the ones trying hard, working diligently, not bothering their neighbor with chatter or their opinions or showing off. At the end of class, the ones with the most tickets got 1 minute of game time on the activboard. Everyone got tickets but only the ones with highest number of tickets had time to go to the board. They were absolutely wonderful and we ended up with terrific artwork, too!
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