December 1, 2007
* For Students under my tutelage in EDF 201 Philosophical and Psycholgical Foundations of Education
Select and answer two focus question
Opinion Paper EDF 201 2nd Semester 2007-08
November 28, 2007 at 1:34 am (Academics, Education)
Tags: Academics, activity, Education, masteral course
Determining Classroom Management Profile
October 15, 2007 at 5:08 am (Education)
Tags: classroom management, profile
What is your classroom management profile?
Answer these 12 questions and learn more about your classroom management profile.
Impressions on “No ID, No Entry” Policy: An Inquiry of its Means and Ends
October 11, 2007 at 5:33 am (Education)
Tags: no entry, no id, school policy
It pains me everyday in seeing students who have no ID on hand are strongly being sent home or simply sent away by guards and teachers. Such depressing scenario achingly engulfs me even more with the thought that some students may have unfortunately left their IDs and have come far, far places just to attend their classes.
PROMOTING POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM: MARKING PAPERS
October 8, 2007 at 8:17 am (Education)
Tags: marking papers, self-esteem
Many of the things teachers do to promote, or inhibit, positive self-esteem, comes from unintended actions. There are obvious things teachers do, such as who is called on in the class, who’s papers are posted on the bulletin boards…but there are less obvious things that are done; actions which directly affect the students positive self-esteem.
The most frequent area where this is the case is with marking student papers.
The following are some quick tips which any teacher can immediately use in improving the positive self-esteem in the classroom:
NEVER GRADE IN RED INK. Red is a “negative” color. Think: stop signs and lights, warning labels, poisen, etc. Our society has conditioned us to immediately view red as something negative. Subconsciously, (and often conscientiously), a paper that is handed back full of red marks tells the student that he or she is a “dummy”. A “self-fulfilling prophesy” often results with these students!
