Week+06

Meeting: Pratt Classroom Management
 * Week 6: October 8

Guest Speaker:** //Lisa Taylor PS 199 SLMS// Hello Class LIS690-Fall2009: Stephanie, Annie, Charlie, Max, Susan, Laurie, and Suki— I am looking forward to meeting with you next week on Thursday, October 8th from 4:30-6-30pm at Pratt. Please read Chapter 1 from William Ayers, __To Teach, The Journey of a Teacher__ (thank you Suki for passing this hand-out to the class). Heavily mark up your copies with notes, ideas and questions in the margins and then choose at least 3 out of the 10 teaching myths you would like to discuss in class. We will all discuss “Myth 1: Good Classroom Management is an Essential First Step Toward Becoming a Good Teacher” to launch our investigation of “Classroom Management” and what that means for us as Teacher/School Library Media Specialists. Where appropriate in the text, substitute Library Media Specialist for Teacher and Library Media Center for Classroom. Here are notes and resources as promised, sorry for the delay! See you tomorrow! Warm regards, Lisa Taylor, SLMS

Divinyi, Joyce E. //Successful Strategies for Working or Living with Difficult Kids, How to Stay Healthy and Respond Effectively to Disruptive, Disrespectful, Defiant Behavior//. Statesboro, Georgia: The Wellness Connection, 1997.
 * Resources: **

Foley, Dave and Laura Stewart. //Ultimate Classrooom Control Handbook, A Veteran Teacher's On-the-Spot Techniques for Solving Adolescent Student Misbehavior//. Indianapolis, Indiana, 2007.

Kohn, Alphie. //Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community//. Alexandria, Va.: ASCD, 1996. // Contrasts the idea of discipline, in which things are done to students to control their behavior, with an approach that features teachers working with students to make decisions together within the framework of a caring community. // (nypl.org) Wong, Harry K. and Rosemary T. Wong. //The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher//. Mountainview, CA: Harry K. Wong Publications, 2005. // A guide for teachers at any level shares ideas on classroom management and designing lessons for academic success. // (nypl.org) // To Teach, The Journey of a Teacher // by William Ayers, Chapter 1 // When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’ // by Alfie Kohn from NY Times  //Meet Your New School Library Media Specilaist// by Eric Weil from Administrator Magazine
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