Uncategorized May 23, 2020
When considering classroom management strategies it is critical that we take a different strategy from those who traditionally advocate a behavior modification approach if we truly want to help our students. Rather than punish and reward a student’s actions in order to change his behaviour in the classroom, we must look for the underlying cause of the behavior in order to really help the student. Punishers and rewards may change the student’s behavior today, solving our problem as a teacher trying to cover the curriculum, but it won’t necessarily carry over to tomorrow and it certainly won’t help the student today or tomorrow.
Students can do much for their own stress management simply by eating a balanced diet and getting sufficient sleep. They can add to that by maintaining a schedule, including regular waking and sleeping hours.
You should file all your notes properly after each lesson. Do not wait until revision time to search through pile after pile of papers for that set of revision notes / worksheets that you wanted to revise then. It will be bad time management on your part if you have to spend hours after hours in searching for stuff rather than in studying.
Then, at the bottom of the handout make sure to have the student sign his or her name. By signing their name the student is making a promise to follow through with their plan.
Along Student management system Singapore with procrastination distractions waste a lot of time. Whether it is a distracting desk (a desk with a lot of clutter and things to grab your attention), a distracting person, TV or dog; distractions can eat up a lot of your time. If you are working on App Development at home and someone is constantly coming in talking to you, nicely tell them that you are working on something important and then set up a designated time to solely talk to them. If It’s is your dog that keeps on coming in grabbing your attention, just tell him to lay down and that you can not play now. Try not to get distracted by things and focus at the task at hand – app development.
The key to changing inappropriate student behavior is to have the *student* take responsibility for his actions. First, the student must identify the inappropriate behavior, and then determine why it is inappropriate, and finally, how he plans to stop the inappropriate behavior.
So what is actually time management? it’s pretty simple actually – it’s the art of knowing the tasks in a given day and spreading your time in a way you’ll be able to logically and effectively complete all tasks and your personal activities. there are several layers to time management but those are more advanced and currently not important enough to mention here, just a point to think about – what will you do when you have your fine made schedule and someone drops on you another unpredicted task? that’s where the real time management kicks in but that’s in another article in the future.
Make a plan for risk management. You will be glad you did. Check out my upcoming articles and I will outline for the primary levels of risk management and provide you with detailed description on how to build a risk management plan to help you succeed in the new economy.