The ability for students to follow our instructions and complete assignments is, clearly, one of the most important aspects of our jobs. Needing to make sure that our instructions and direction is clear and concise is super important because if its not clear they won't do well on the assignments and that is not the goal.

These registers are all very important for teachers to have and to know about how to swap between each of them as well as instances in which we would have to use each of them. For example, using a casual register could be expected to be used before class starts, maybe after a lesson is completed, etc. Formal is for when we are teaching a lesson or potentially when we are disciplining a student. Urgent is, clearly, for when there is a life or death situation happening or something of a high caliber. Fire, fire drill, physical fight, etc.

I think this is something important to think about because as students thinking about how we're going to handle our future students when things start to get off the rail is something we don't often think about at the front of our minds.

This is something I can wholeheartedly get behind. When I was interning last fall my cooperating teacher had a set procedure for her kids to follow each day they came into class. They would come in, sit at their desk, and they would look to the smart board for what to get started on. She told me that this routine continued even when she had to have a sub for the day. Keeping the same routine each day really did help her class flow easily day by day and made the subs life easier when she had to have one. Additionally, we had to cover another teachers class one day during her planning period and you could just tell that these students had no routine whatsoever.

This is something I witnessed first hand a few times when I was interning at Union Freshman Academy last fall, there were a couple of students that I heard tell my cooperating teacher they were going to drop out anyways so the detentions they would get for being tardy, the zeros on tests and assignments, all of that didn't mean anything to them.

I never thought about this but I like this as well. This also helps to gauge how the mindset of the class is as well.

I think this is something I'll be taking with me into my future classrooms because it isn't something I ever thought about before we talked about it in class. Kids and teenagers are more apt to do what their friends are doing or what their friends think is best, and if we come up with rules and norms as an entire class which includes aforementioned friends they'll feel more likely to listen and abide by them. When the rules are just from the teacher some of the more rebellious teens could feel the need to push the limit some. It could also help by bringing insight into what they may or may not understand or already abide by at home.

This is definitely something that is useful for teachers to remember. If you put too many rules in place the students will get overwhelmed and probably not remember every single one, setting them up for failure. If they are listed with a negative tone of voice they may feel compelled to rebel simply because they feel the teacher is disrespecting them, or maybe some students just don't like to be told what to do like that.