Dealing With Misbehavior Inside The Classroom

In each class there are plenty and plenty of misbehavior that the students may do. Dealing with misbehavior is not easy task. Some of the teachers deal with them in a way that is not logical. When the teacher wants to deal with the misbehavior, she should know how to deal with it and when to deal with it. 

It is hard for the teachers to deal with misbehavior in a way that makes the students learn from it. Teachers should be aware of the students inside the class and they should know each student. Also they should know why students may misbehave inside the class. Every misbehavior has a cause. First of all teachers should know the cause of misbehaving, then providing a logical consequence for that misbehave. The logical consequence should be accurate and the students should benefit from it. 

For example, if a student changes his seat without permission, any teacher may scream or ask him to go outside the classroom. But if you want to give a logical consequence so simply the teacher may remove a smiley face that he took previously. 

Here are some misbehaviors and the logical consequence of each misbehavior. 

 -Scratch on his friend's book: Apologize to his friend. Help his friend in repairing the paper.

 -Cheating: Take the exam from the student for five minutes. Minus 5 marks. 

 -Being disrespectful: Write a letter to apologize to the one he disrespect. 

 -Sleeping in the class: Ask him to go and wash his face. 

 -Interrupting the teacher: Don't allow him to talk a whole session. 

Vygotsky's Theory

Lev Vygotsky is the most famous theorist that talks about sociocultural theory.  Vygotsky’s theory was useful for describing children’s mental, language and social development.

Vygotsky talks about the social interaction. He believed that the mental and language and social development is acquired by the interaction with the others. Also he said that interaction lead the child to develop because whenever the child interacts so he will be able to communicate and in this way he will learn. Also Vygotsky talks about peer pressure, and what is meant by peer pressure that the child help his/her peer, in this way there is an interaction between the two children and this lead to learn and develop.

Besides he talks about the zone of proximal development is the stage that the child is able to perform tasks with help or not. So the tasks above ZPD are those the children not able to do them by themselves, while the tasks that are below ZPD they are tasks that children can make them by themselves. Also he believed that the interaction between the child and the teacher in the class is very important for the children because in this way the teacher will scaffold the child and in this way the teacher is helping the child to acquire knowledge and information. Scaffolding is a very important according to Vygotsky because it is a kind of help that gave to the child to complete a specific task that he is not able to make it.

Characteristics Of A Good Teacher

Every teacher likes to be a great and professional in her classroom. It is somehow difficult for the teachers to be good teachers all the times in the classes because being perfect all the times is not something that is easy. Perfection comes when the teacher is highly educated and love what she is and the position that she has. To be a great and perfect teacher you should have some characteristics that allow you to be great in your classrooms. 

Some of the characteristics that the teacher should have are:

• Friendliness and congeniality: as a teacher you should show your students love and always care for them and show them that you are friends with them. 
• A good personality: when the teacher has a good personality, the students will feel that they are safe and not afraid. Having a teacher that has a good personality which means the teacher may listen to the students, and she may feel with them, this may help the students and the teachers to interact in a good way in the class. 
• Good listener: in order to be a good teacher, you have to be a good listener. If the teacher listens for the students so she is showing that they are important according to her. 
• The teacher should be kind as much as she can with the students. Kindness is a characteristic that all of the teachers should have. If the teacher is kind, she would be beloved form the students. 
• The teacher should have high expectations for all of the students.
• The teacher should be good communicator which means that she knows when she speak and knows when she let the students speak. She should give time for the students to speak in the class.

If the teacher has at least two of these characteristics, she would be a great teacher inside the classroom. 

Regaining Students' Attention.

One of the biggest problems that the teachers face in the schools is regaining student’s attention. This issue had been suggested previously with many ways to regain the student’s attention. Regaining student’s attention is not an easy issue; it is very difficult for most of the teachers. Many students lose their attention for several reasons, and these reasons maybe caused by the teachers, parents, or from the student himself. This problem can cause many obstacles that he/she would face. For example, the student who loses his/her attention in the class may have low marks; stop studying or many other difficulties. Besides this problem may cause difficulties in the teacher’s career, it may cause them to lose their jobs or maybe to lose their self-confidence. So it is important to solve this problem in each and every class.There are many students in the classes that lose their attention; they may lose it for different reasons.
There are several ways in order to regain students' attention. Some of them are:

1. Make a sign whenever you want the students to pay attention. 
2. Follow the rules.
3. Praise the attentive students. 
4. Find what helps each student to be interested. 
5. let them make choices. 
6. Ask the inattentive students to tell something for the students like a joke...
7. Be creative, because creativity lead the students to pay attention. 
8. Give a break from time to time. 

Reluctant Readers

        A reluctant reader is anyone that has little or no interest in reading at all. Despite the large amount of books around them in the school, libraries, and in the home they prefer not to read. It is a very common problem that teachers face at their classes to have a child that refuses to read. But, such students need a lot of encouragement and motivation for their academic achievement. 

•       How to motivate a reluctant reader?

      It is hard to keep the child interested in reading, there are many ways that teachers and parents should follow to encourage and motivate their students and children to read. It is very hard for the teachers and the parents to let the reluctant reader reads. If the reluctant reader doesn't have the interest to read, he/she will not read. These are some ideas for teachers and parents to encourage the children to read:                                     

             -If the kid is able to read let him/her to read for you. 

             - Go to the library once a week and borrow books .      

              -If the child prefers the electronic devices, install books on them. 

              -Discuss the book with your child or student. 

             - Buy them hi-lo books, that are with high interest and low vocabulary.

10 apps every teacher needs (Webinar)

As we all know technology nowadays is the basic of the education. At the medical level, technology can help treat more sick people by giving some treatments for them. Besides, it can help the teachers to be more educated and to have extra information and ideas to apply in their classes. teachers are really in need for different kinds of technology in their classes in order to make the students more interested in what they are learning. Also if the teachers vary in their teaching styles and applying different kinds of technology in the class, this would help the teacher to meet different kinds of learners at the same class. So all what we should say is "Thank you technology for the benefits that you are giving us."

I attended the webinar last day that is titled "10 Apps Every Teacher Needs". The presenter was Shannon J. Holden. He is an assistant principal. in this webinar he told us about 10 applications and how we can implement them in our classrooms. 

Here are the different 10 apps: 

1. kahoot: it is an application that is free. it is a kind of engaging competitive timing. It allows you to see if the students are working individually or not. 
2. quizizz: it is engaging app, and it provides immediate feedback. It allows the teacher to see individual performance. 
3. quizlet live: It is about collaborative learning. It has the immediate reteaching benefit. 
4. wakelet: it is a free app that works as a digital portfolios and digital storytelling. It can consist of "websites, videos, documents, articles..."
5. Flipgrid: It is free app. Teachers can control it and it is accessible on all devices. It has connectivity with teachers, students all over the world. 
6. Duolingo: It is a free app. It is a kind of app that the students can earn points if they got a correct answer. 
7. Recap: it is an application that allows the teachers and the parents of the students to have insight on students learning process. 
8. Additio: It helps the teacher in order to take the attendance and the marks of the students. 
9. classtree: It is an interesting app that notifies the parents of the students if they have any trip or any event for their children. 
10. photomath: it is very interesting app. If you have a difficult math problem and you are not able to solve it, so simply you take a picture of the problem and this app gives you the detailed solution.

It was interesting to attend such a beneficial webinar. 

University Experience

when i entered the university i registered TESL major. I started my major by taking four major courses. i was not like the major that i was registering, but time by time, i started to understand the importance of the courses and the importance of being a teacher an how it is essential to learn how to deal with the students. I took so many courses that are really essential for my career and they were pretty beneficial to use them in the future classes that i will teach in. I finished my major in three years. after that i decided to register TD. Teaching Diploma is essential to make sure that i am really competent whenever i am in a class. Till today, i am taking very essential things of how to deal with the students and how to be a good model for the students. i am taking only two courses. The classroom dynamics which talks about how to be a good teacher in the class, and the educ560 which helps us to use technology inside classes.