There is this guy, Fred Jones, who does teaching seminars, and has writen a great book.
I got othe books on how to manage a classroom (not for homeschooling, but because I do volunteer teaching as well. Girl Scouts, art classes, sewing classes, etc) and it was super helpful.
It discusses how many good teachers just don't know how to handle a classroom, and teaches a lot of techniques on how to do so, including how to arrange desks, how NOT to stand in front and lecture (for long, anyway), roaming around the room and keeping kids in your "green zone" so they don't have a chance to misbehave, how to handle the "helpless handraiser", and other common types that cause trouble for a teacher, and also, attitude. What he calls "meaning business".
He studied, for 20 years, classrooms, including inner city classrooms. He saw a group of kids run rampant over a teacher, and 45 minutes later, that same group of kids sit down and behave in a different teacher's class. So it wasn't the kids...entirely anyway. It's how the teacher handles them.
If you are still teaching or ever intend to do so again, I highly recommend his books, DvD's etc.
http://www.fredjones.com/
I got othe books on how to manage a classroom (not for homeschooling, but because I do volunteer teaching as well. Girl Scouts, art classes, sewing classes, etc) and it was super helpful.
It discusses how many good teachers just don't know how to handle a classroom, and teaches a lot of techniques on how to do so, including how to arrange desks, how NOT to stand in front and lecture (for long, anyway), roaming around the room and keeping kids in your "green zone" so they don't have a chance to misbehave, how to handle the "helpless handraiser", and other common types that cause trouble for a teacher, and also, attitude. What he calls "meaning business".
He studied, for 20 years, classrooms, including inner city classrooms. He saw a group of kids run rampant over a teacher, and 45 minutes later, that same group of kids sit down and behave in a different teacher's class. So it wasn't the kids...entirely anyway. It's how the teacher handles them.
If you are still teaching or ever intend to do so again, I highly recommend his books, DvD's etc.
http://www.fredjones.com/
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
