The key to ensuring student success is to start with a clear end goal. Learning objectives define that goal for the teacher and the student.
You would never just get in a car and drive with no predetermined destination so why do it with lesson planning. Always determine and share the desired learning objectives with students so that the goals can be met for both students and teacher.
The first step in the lesson design process is knowing where you want your students to end up.
I think this is super important because in my opinion it makes no sense to come up with activities first without even determining what you want students to get out of it. You have to fully understand where you want students to end up before you can push them in the right direction.
Lesson planning is an important aspect of effective teaching
I completely agree with this because to best teach effectively you must have a plan that engages students and pushes them to be the best they can be. After having a set plan how do you pivot effectively if you see that its not necessarily working?
Sometimes students don’t follow your instructions because your instructions are unclear.
I think that this statement is true for a lot of students. This is why its important to be very clear and concise with directions as well as checking for understanding. Another thing that may help if it is only a couple of students that don't understand take a little time and explain to those students individually so that they understand fully what is being asked of them.
Use Formal Register: Speak and stand with a purpose. Square Up, Stand Still: Stand tall, face audience, and hold. Quiet power: Lower your voice and speak slower. Economy of Language: Excess words initiate distraction Do Not Talk Over: “Self-interrupt” to wait for students to listen. Do Not Engage: Don’t stray, stay focused on the current issue
I think that using these key elements can be very impactful because you can use this to convey confidence and students will be able to see that.
maintaining those expectations over the entire school year
I think that maintaining expectations is even more important than establishing them because if you just establish expectations without maintaining you basically established them for nothing. Your personnel consistency to enforce rules and expectations will be reflected by your students consistency to follow rules and expectations.
Explain how the procedure benefits the students to build buy-in Model good and bad execution Practice, practice, practice
I totally agree with these three things because I think that the better you can get students to buy-in to what we are doing the better student outcomes will be. Modelling and explaining not just good but also bad execution is helpful because some students may not even realize what they are doing wrong. As for "practice, practice, practice" I believe that practice makes perfect.
When planning routines try to limit the number of steps to keep the routine manageable. Practice the routine yourself to make sure that it works smoothly, then script how you will practice the routine with your students. Once your students arrive, then practice, practice, practice. You may need to revise your procedure if it is not working efficiently or you may need to refresh students with a practice session mid-year if they begin to slip.
I think that this statement is a little easier said then done. I think that there will be a lot of times where you have to be able to adjust on the fly but with that being said I think that if you can be as consistent as possible with the routine then it will make pivoting much easier. Consistency is key.
Defining behavioral expectations helps establish an environment where students can engage in the learning process. Effective classroom management starts with defining your expectations for student behavior (Marzano, 2007). Classroom rules, also referred to as norms, express standards of behavior for which individual students need to take responsibility.
I believe that defining and establishing classroom rules and procedures has to be one of the first steps taken at the beginning of a school year. As a student I can recall having teachers that were very relaxed on rules and having teachers that were strict. It always seemed that teachers with relaxed rules had a tendency to get walked over by their class. Something that I will have in my future classroom is actually having the rules and expectations posted on a sign so that students have no excuses when it comes to knowing what the rules are.