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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact is, we need teachers to be told WHAT to teach, with general guidelines of how to teach it. The selected curriculum needs to be proven to actually work. There are many options out there. Having teachers decide what to teach is a nightmare.

Good teachers are energetic, engaging, and know how to manage a classroom well. [/quote]

Schools often have different classroom management techniques that you must implement. Some schools are PBIS. Some are Responsive Classroom. Where I was last year the school said the kids were to be intrinsically motivated. We weren’t supposed to do stuff like PBIS or implement reward systems like Class Dojo or marble jars where the student could earn whole class prizes. So in my first year I was told not to do any of that and do you think my classroom was managed well just expecting the kids to be intrinsically motivated? It wasn’t! I heard some teachers did marble jars and other reward systems and to just keep it on the down low. I eventually established a PBIS system that got kids participating and staying on task much more frequently. It helped me and I think it helped the kids because the often off task kids wanted that attention for doing as they should. This kept them from distracting the students who didn’t struggle as much with staying on task. I had seen PBIS in schools as a sub and I think it works for younger grades. I mean kids need to learn to do what’s expected without constant recognition or the chance to win a prize, but they get weened off it and I’ve subbed every grade level and the PBIS ES kids were well behaved in MS and HS. Where I subbed I never really had behavior problems and I hear a lot of subs experience those. So IMO the ES did a great job establishing a school wide classroom management policy to teach the kids proper behavior. Being told your school doesn’t have a school wide behavior system and the kids should just be intrinsically motivated in ES was a bit crazy. It clearly didn’t work for most teachers since most went against the rule and used Class Dojo and the like. [/quote]

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