School Rules and Realistic Expectations kids and teens
School rules and realistic expectations help students improve their respect for adults and for learning.
If you are new to the teaching profession or if you are new to a school, the administration will suggest reading their contract and their manual delineating all of their specific expectations. It is best to thoroughly understand what they are requesting of you to do. In this way, you know how to proceed under any given circumstances. Also, it is advisable to ask for clarification of rules whenever necessary.
If you teach in multiple schools in a given school year, while each school's rules will be slightly different, it is still to your advantage to read them separately. This may be more of a challenge at first, seeing that different people will have different responsibilities, but it will become easier with time.
By following the school's rules, you will also show your students your respect of rules just as much as they need to respect them. For example, your school probably has a tardy policy. In turn, when your students are tardy, they know there are certain consequences based on how many tardies they have.
Also, if they choose to create major problems for themselves and for you, it is highly important to adhere to the school's rules in an impartial manner. While you may have your preferences as to how to modify bad behavior, it is extremely important to adhere to the school's rules so that students learn that their bad behavior has consequences and that you and the administration abide by these rules. Also, there will be no confusion or any arguments for showing preferential treatment, for example.
Of course, minor infractions are much easier to deal with, and tactful reminders or even a glare at the individuals involved should readily remedy the situation. When the misbehaving students choose to continue creating problems for themselves and for you, more direct disciplinary measures need to be taken, such as detention. Under these circumstances, if there are certain rules as to how to administer detention like giving them 24 hours' notice, it is very important to adhere to this rule.
Thus, consistency in the enforcement of school rules will benefit everyone, even if the students will not necessarily like the results. Nevertheless, they need to conform to certain rules in the school setting just as well as in society.
Another important ingredient for successful teaching is developing and evaluating realistic expectations. It takes a lot of planning for each of your classes in order to determine what each group of students will easily learn. It is important to be able to formulate achievable goals combined with some challenges to inspire them to think critically and creatively. You are thus showing your students of different abilities and of different degrees of confidence that they can learn when they apply themselves. They are then developing mature, responsible behavior by learning from their successes and from their mistakes.
While still having realistic expectations, expressing your confidence to them will also help the educational process. Thus, here are some specific suggestions to achieve this end.
First, praise your students for their accomplishments. This truly will help solidify learning and lessen discipline issues. It is amazing how positive and constructive this approach can be, even though they may feel somewhat embarrassed.
Secondly, encourage your students with realistic suggestions to overcome their obstacles of learning the material, such as studying more, asking more questions, getting additional help from you, and going to the textbook's website. They need an extra dose of attention and listening to, in order to have them achieve more so. These suggestions will thus promote a better attitude and ability to learn the material.
Next, when a majority of your students do not understand the information well enough, it is important to practice flexibility. By redesigning lesson plans with different approaches, you are apt to promote more successful learning and lessen discipline issues.
The last approach hardly takes any effort on your part. If the entire class earns a C+ or higher on a quiz, test, or project, consider giving no homework during the weekend. If it is a B- or higher, consider giving no homework for 1 week. If it is an A- or higher, no homework for 2 weeks.
Working with your students will create more learning, enhance their self-esteem, and lessen discipline issues-thus, your more ideal classroom setting!
If you are new to the teaching profession or if you are new to a school, the administration will suggest reading their contract and their manual delineating all of their specific expectations. It is best to thoroughly understand what they are requesting of you to do. In this way, you know how to proceed under any given circumstances. Also, it is advisable to ask for clarification of rules whenever necessary.
If you teach in multiple schools in a given school year, while each school's rules will be slightly different, it is still to your advantage to read them separately. This may be more of a challenge at first, seeing that different people will have different responsibilities, but it will become easier with time.
By following the school's rules, you will also show your students your respect of rules just as much as they need to respect them. For example, your school probably has a tardy policy. In turn, when your students are tardy, they know there are certain consequences based on how many tardies they have.
Also, if they choose to create major problems for themselves and for you, it is highly important to adhere to the school's rules in an impartial manner. While you may have your preferences as to how to modify bad behavior, it is extremely important to adhere to the school's rules so that students learn that their bad behavior has consequences and that you and the administration abide by these rules. Also, there will be no confusion or any arguments for showing preferential treatment, for example.
Of course, minor infractions are much easier to deal with, and tactful reminders or even a glare at the individuals involved should readily remedy the situation. When the misbehaving students choose to continue creating problems for themselves and for you, more direct disciplinary measures need to be taken, such as detention. Under these circumstances, if there are certain rules as to how to administer detention like giving them 24 hours' notice, it is very important to adhere to this rule.
Thus, consistency in the enforcement of school rules will benefit everyone, even if the students will not necessarily like the results. Nevertheless, they need to conform to certain rules in the school setting just as well as in society.
Another important ingredient for successful teaching is developing and evaluating realistic expectations. It takes a lot of planning for each of your classes in order to determine what each group of students will easily learn. It is important to be able to formulate achievable goals combined with some challenges to inspire them to think critically and creatively. You are thus showing your students of different abilities and of different degrees of confidence that they can learn when they apply themselves. They are then developing mature, responsible behavior by learning from their successes and from their mistakes.
While still having realistic expectations, expressing your confidence to them will also help the educational process. Thus, here are some specific suggestions to achieve this end.
First, praise your students for their accomplishments. This truly will help solidify learning and lessen discipline issues. It is amazing how positive and constructive this approach can be, even though they may feel somewhat embarrassed.
Secondly, encourage your students with realistic suggestions to overcome their obstacles of learning the material, such as studying more, asking more questions, getting additional help from you, and going to the textbook's website. They need an extra dose of attention and listening to, in order to have them achieve more so. These suggestions will thus promote a better attitude and ability to learn the material.
Next, when a majority of your students do not understand the information well enough, it is important to practice flexibility. By redesigning lesson plans with different approaches, you are apt to promote more successful learning and lessen discipline issues.
The last approach hardly takes any effort on your part. If the entire class earns a C+ or higher on a quiz, test, or project, consider giving no homework during the weekend. If it is a B- or higher, consider giving no homework for 1 week. If it is an A- or higher, no homework for 2 weeks.
Working with your students will create more learning, enhance their self-esteem, and lessen discipline issues-thus, your more ideal classroom setting!
You as the teacher are the artist in your classroom. You can
truly make a difference with your students so that they can feel
comfortable with the material you present, but also to have them feel
confident about it as well.
They as your students need to be held accountable for what they learn so that they understand what they learn and they earn the grade they deserve.
This article is to help you to attain the maximum amount of learning by your students and to minimize the amount of discipline problems by them. Thus, by them understanding the school's rules and for them to understanding your realistic expectations will help a majority of your students to become more successful in your classes along with them owning their own behavior and their own grades.
They as your students need to be held accountable for what they learn so that they understand what they learn and they earn the grade they deserve.
This article is to help you to attain the maximum amount of learning by your students and to minimize the amount of discipline problems by them. Thus, by them understanding the school's rules and for them to understanding your realistic expectations will help a majority of your students to become more successful in your classes along with them owning their own behavior and their own grades.
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