The document describes issues that students are facing with their math teacher, Ms. Jia. Multiple students complain that Ms. Jia shows favoritism, talks down to students, and rushes through lessons without ensuring student understanding. Suggestions are provided for Ms. Jia to employ more positive classroom management strategies, ensure fair treatment of all students, and differentiate instruction to engage various learning styles and abilities.

2. Miss Jia26 years old

3. “Oh my goodness! I just can’t seem to manage…. There are so many things to do and endless meetings to attend… One after another…. Maybe I shouldn’t have signed up for teaching, how can the rest cope for so many years?”

4. STRESS

5. StressHow do you deal with stress?Confront the problems directly

6. Change the way you look at things

7. Relaxation exercisesCognitive therapyHow do you choose the way you look at things? eliminate negative thoughts as it adds on to the amount of stress you have

8. alter the negative emotions to raise self esteem and to gain hope for the future.

9. monitor, manage and regulate your own behavior PerceptionPositive self- talk

10. Thought stopping

11. Power LanguageSEL FrameworkSelf Management is part of the KEY SEL Competencies:Impulse control and stress management

12. Self motivation and discipline

13. Goal setting and organisational skills.Time ManagementABC123 Prioritized planning

14. Split page schedulingABC123 Prioritized Planning

15. Split Page Scheduling

16. “I feel so transparent every time I walk into the classroom. No one ever greets me and it seems that the only trace of my existence in the room is their empty seats because of their insistent visits to the bathroom and their perpetual late attendance! Begone, the damned Distraction Monster! I shall destroy you with my mathematical equations so that my class can focus on my teaching and not on those piles of useless beauty magazines! !…… Sigh.”

17. Structure & RoutineMinimize time wastage & distractionPrevention·Remediation ·Intervention

18. Minimize distractionAdministrative activitiesGreetingBandura’s Social Learning TheoryRole model

19. Minimize distractionAdministrative activitiesPunctualityBandura’s Social Learning TheoryAlternative Escapade

20. Minimize distractionMovementVisiting the bathroomBehaviourial ConditioningMonitoring of the Rules

21. Minimize distractionInteractionsAsking questionsSocial EnvironmentBefore / During / After the lessonFairness“Cher”

22. “What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.”What the students have learned from you will become their own reflection.

24. I LOVE TO TEACHJohnYou know, Ms Jialat is so jialat! She had never believed me. I studied over the weekend for the maths test but at the end she accused me for trying to cheat while I was just trying to pick up my eraser on the floor. How can she be like that? Wasted my weekend to study for her stupid maths test!You know, Ms Jialat is so jialat! She had never believed me. I studied over the weekend for the maths test but at the end she accused me for trying to cheat while I was just trying to pick up my eraser on the floor. How can she be like that? Wasted my weekend to study for her stupid maths test!2 minutes ago

25. I LOVE TO TEACHMinahMs Jialat is just unfair! Last lesson she patiently spend 5 minutes explain to Annie’s questions before the lesson started. After that during the lesson, I only asked her one question. You know what she said? She said I don’t need to understand that because that was too difficult to me. She don’t even bother to explain to me! How can a teacher be like that? She is just looking down at me because I didn’t do well as Annie in Maths!Ms Jialat is just unfair! Last lesson she patiently spend 5 minutes explain to Annie’s questions before the lesson started. After that during the lesson, I only asked her one question. You know what she said? She said I don’t need to understand that because that was too difficult to me. She don’t even bother to explain to me! How can a teacher be like that? She is just looking down at me because I didn’t do well as Annie in Maths!2 minutes ago

26. Good and Brophy (1977)A teacher expecting specific behaviour and achievement from a student will behave differently toward that student.Suggestions for Ms Jia:Don’t set low expectation for students.Encourage them while they are doing the right thing.

27. I LOVE TO TEACHLIAN HUAYJohn quarreled with me first but Miss Jialat only scold me but not John. Walau, she damn biased sia!!! So angry with her la. John quarreled with me first but Miss Jialat only scold me but not John.Walau, she damn biased sia!!!So angry with her la. 59 seconds ago

28. Charles (1992) Approaches responding to misbehaviour:Rules-Reinforce-Punish (RRP) methodsSuggestion for Ms Jia:Employing RRPEstablish the rules and enforce the punishment fairly to misbehaviour.

29. I LOVE TO TEACHJohnAnd you know what she said when she suspected me for cheating? She said:” : John, you think I am blind? Don’t try cheating. I have eyes behind me. Don’t pretend, I saw you trying to look at Annie’s paper. It’s shameful that you would actually try to copy her answer.” Can’t she talk to me in a better way? And she never gave me a chance to defend!And you know what she said when she suspected me for cheating? She said: ”John, you think I am blind? Don’t try cheating. I have eyes behind me. Don’t pretend, I saw you trying to look at Annie’s paper. It’s shameful that you would actually try to copy her answer.” Can’t she talk to me in a better way? And she never gave me a chance to defend!2 minutes ago

30. I LOVE TO TEACHJohnAnd you know what she said when she suspected me for cheating? She said:” : John, you think I am blind? Don’t try cheating. I have eyes behind me. Don’t pretend, I saw you trying to look at Annie’s paper. It’s shameful that you would actually try to copy her answer.” Can’t she talk to me in a better way? And she never gave me a chance to defend!LIAN HUEY Ya! How come she just can’t talk to us in a better way? Last time she scolded at us and said:” Both of you keep quiet! I have to finish teaching this topic today! LianHuay, keep your mirror away.” She only keep rushing her lesson, never care about our feelings at all!3 minutes ago54 seconds agoLIAN HUEY likes this.LIAN HUEY Ya! How come she just can’t talk to us in a better way? Last time she scolded at us and said:” Both of you keep quite! I have to finish teaching this topic today! LianHuay, keep your mirror away.” She only keep rushing her lesson, never care about our feelings at all!3 minutes ago

31. The Gorden’s Model: Discipline through self-controlDiagnose the problems: Who owns it?“I statement” VS “you message”

32. Differentiation LearningDifferentiation is based on recognizing the value and the worth that exist in each individual. It is concerned with the delivery of a curriculum that ensures relevant, stimulating, appropriate and challenging work for all students.

33. Differentiation by ContentRush through the syllabus

34. Teach what is the most important to all

35. Next most important probably to the better students.Differentiation by Level and PaceMiss Jia dutifully answered Annie’s questions, one by one, oblivious to the rest of the pupils in class.

36. Ask Annie who is a fast learner to look for her after school or give her task to do while others are still working.Differentiation by Learning Styles For visual learners, Miss Jia could use powerpoint or mindmaps to show the different concepts to students, instead of just writing on the whiteboard.

37. For Kinesthetic students, Miss Jia might want to bring in real materials to let students work with. Differentiation by Learning StylesFor audio learners, Miss Jia can use songs or raps to teach students how to memorise formulas. Differentiation by AccessUse more interactive ways like engaging them in group work and group competition.

38. When students asked her about the math problem, she shouldn’t ask the student to keep quiet, rather she should put it in a nice way and explained to her..