The First Days of School

How To Be An Effective Teacher

THE FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL

By Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong

Outline

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 1 – Why You Need to Succeed on the First Days of School

• What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year.  You will either win or lose your class on the first days of school.
• There is overwhelming evidence that the first two to three weeks of school are critical in determining how well students will achieve for the remainder of the year.
• Student achievement at the end of the year is directly related to the degree to which the teacher establishes good control of the classroom procedures in the very first week of the school year
• Effective teachers are able to affect or make an impact on their students.  A teacher’s role is to open the door to learning.  Effective master teachers know how to get their students to enter for learning.  To make an impact on your students, you need to use effective teaching practices.  Students learn only when the teacher has an appreciable effect on a student’s life.  You have arrived as a teacher when you reach this stage.  You have gone beyond mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Establishes good control the first week of school.

Ø  2.  Does things right, consistently.

Ø  3.  Affects and touches lives.

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 2 - What Is an Effective Teacher?

• The Three Characteristics of an Effective Teacher…An effective teacher…

Ø  1.  has positive expectations for students.

Ø  2.  is an extremely good classroom manager.

Ø  3.  knows how to design lessons for student mastery.

• It is essential that the teacher exhibit positive expectations toward all students.
• Well-Ordered Environment + Positive Academic Expectations = Effective Classroom
• Student success in the subject matter of the class will be the result of how well the teacher designs lessons and checks for mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Exhibits positive expectations for all students.

Ø  2.  Establishes good classroom management techniques.

Ø  3.  Designs lessons for student mastery.