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Modern Methods of Maintaining DisciplineSchool discipline practices are generally informed by theory from psychologists and educators. There are a number of theories to form a comprehensive discipline strategy for an entire school or a particular class.
Exercise 4: Learning and teaching Did you ever work in groups? What sort of work can be done in this way? What are the advantages? And the disadvantages? How is the role of the teacher different? Exercise 5:Answer the following questions. Make use of the Active Vocabulary and Additional Texts. 1. What surprised you most during your first day of student teaching? 2. Were you happy with the school you were appointed? 3. Did you like the class you were assigned? 4. Were there any unexpected things at your first lesson? 5. Was pupils' level of knowledge of English high or far below the level required for a particular form? 6. Did your pupils realize that you were but a student teacher or did they regard you as if you were a regular teacher? 7. Did the regular teacher or the institute supervisors give you any useful recommendations about helpful teaching techniques? 8. Did you ever feel at a loss at a lesson, why? 9. Did you manage to write good plans of your lessons or were you up a dark valley sometimes? 10. Did you use the suggestions that you were given in the course of methodology? 11. Were the pupils in your class alert, attentive, responsive, willing to learn or were they restless and inattentive? 12. Did you have any troublemakers in your class (who, for instance, was talking back, chatting all the time, was jabbering, was calling out, was making silly remarks, was fooling around, in fact, was creating a disturbance and was a general nuisance)? 13. Did you ever experience during your student teaching that you couldn't control your feelings? Did you yell at the pupils? 14. Did you often have formal observation lessons? Were there many people to observe you? Did you regard your observation lessons as an ordeal or did you look forward to them? 15. Did your supervisor or your formal teacher, whoever the observer might be, criticize you on many points? Was the criticism justified as a rule? 16. Were there any disheartening episodes while you were observed? 17. Did you try to be a tyrant of a teacher or were you a softie? 18. Do you believe you are now familiar with all the teaching techniques or do you think you still have much to learn? 19. Do you think you managed to apply practically all the theoretical things you were taught at the Institute? 20. Have you acted as substitute-teacher? Can you enumerate pros and cons of substitute-teaching? 21. Did your student-teaching come up to your expectations? 22. What advice can you give to your fellow-students concerning student-teaching? Exercise 6:Think of some good advice to give to a young teacher in the following situations: · you’ve got 10 - 15 minutes left till the end of the lesson and you’re short of tasks · you’ve got trouble makers in class causing serious discipline problems · a few minutes before the lesson begins you find out you’ve left all your books and notes at home · you’re to submit the outline of the lesson to your supervisor / the assistant principal · one of the pupils is constantly late for your lesson with no serious excuse · today you have a formal observation lesson but you’ve overslept · the greater part of the lesson is based on the use of visual aids (a video-cassette recorder / CD player, TV) but the technical equipment is out of order · the class you’re assigned is far below the level of knowledge required for this form WRITING Exercise 1:Write a balanced discussion on one of the topics. 1. Should parents who wish to educate their children themselves, at home, be free to do so? What are the arguments for and against? 2. How well did your education prepare you for life in today's world? What differences in the range of subjects or methods of teaching do you wish there had been, and why? {About350 words) Exercise 2:Write an essay on one of the topics. 1. My first teaching experience - success or failure. 2. Is there a key to success in teaching? 3. What difficulties are awaiting a student teacher? - Obstacles are opportunities in disguise and challenges are the very impetus we feed on to strengthen our resolve. Without the irritation factor, oysters would not produce pearls. As necessity is the mother of invention, challenges are the mother of creativity. Exercise 3:There are a few opinions about creativity in the classroom. In about 200 words say what ideas you support and why. 1. Creativity would also be a good thing for us to live by. No one could resist it. Still what seems be certain is that it's like a double-edged sword. To become a great scientist or artist, should we drop out of school? Not necessarily. Sometimes it seems like a matter of which we should put more focus on among a lot of things we should take care of to foster our children's potential or help them live a "decent life". Mulling over those matters will go on. 2. Intelligence is highly diverse and doesn't come in a single form. Although I agree we have to rethink conventional education systems from A to Z, some 'traditional' subjects might contribute to feed this diversity - for instance, the teaching of philosophy and of the inquiring, challenging mindset that it comes with. Amongst other things, it might contribute to develop the consciousness that there are millions of ways to apprehend reality. 3. Obstacles are opportunities in disguise and challenges are the very impetus we feed on to strengthen our resolve. Without the irritation factor, oysters would not produce pearls. As necessity is the mother of invention, challenges are the mother of creativity.
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