Teach Like a Champion - BIOLOGY FOR LIFE “Teach Like a Champion” strategy has been most...
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Describe Technique. Provide an example script or illustration.
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Right is Right
No Opt Out
Stretch It
Normalizing error
Ratio
Warm Teacher “Nice” “Has good rules” “Solves problems” “Has extra recesses”
Strict Teacher “Mean” “Has very bad rules, like you can only sit down, you can’t get up from your seat until recess” “You can never talk in school”
Read and share the student testimonials about warm and strict teachers.
DISCUSS: how does student perception of a warm/strict
teacher compare to our own?
“When you are consistent, firm and unrelenting but at
the same time positive, thoughtful, and enthusiastic
you send the message to students that having high
expectations is part of being a caring person.”
1. Explain to students why you are doing what you are doing. Explain everything.
2. Distinguish between behavior and people.
3. Get over it. Demonstrate that consequences are temporary. 4. Use warm, non-verbal communication.
Just Right
Too Strict
Too Warm
The student is a gifted, amiable comic, but you’ve just had to issue a light
consequence because a one-liner that you, too, found funny has caused a
distraction.
Just Right
Too Strict
Too Warm
A student whose parents are going through a divorce
complains about having to do an assignment at home