This document provides tips for building a positive school culture and improving English fluency. It recommends using repeated reading to help students read fluently. It also suggests using trivia games in the classroom to motivate students and promote English conversation. Additionally, it advises monitoring English usage throughout the school and working as a team to build strong relationships, teach social skills, clarify rules, and praise positive behavior in order to develop a supportive environment.
Effective communication for effective teachingmarpasha
Effective communication for effective teaching is an important aspect of any teaching learning process. Today’s competitive world demands from teachers to teach better, smarter, and effective. The course contents worth nothing if not communicated effectively. To get it across the students a teacher has to be very effective in his communication and presentation skills. An effective communication is always stimulating, inspiring, motivating and adds fuel to the fire if presenter possesses that igniting spark. Unfortunately, many teachers do not realize this aspect. Effective communication is very important for effective teaching. A workshop has been delivered at Directorate of Staff Development (Lahore) to the newly employed school teachers. This workshop coveres various aspects which can help teacher to make their communication stimulating, inspiring, and motivating. The workshop covers following topics
• What is Communication and Why Is It Important?
• What is Persuasion?
• The Rhetorical Approach to Instructional Communication
• Role of Teachers' Credibility
• Role of Clarity
• Role of Humor
• Role of Immediacy
• Factors Facilitate Openness and Acceptance
• Helpful Hints for Effective Communication
• Factors Encouraging Student Responses
• Roadblocks to Communication
• Responses Tend to Communicate Inadequacies and Faults
• Messages Try to Make the Student Feel Better or Deny there is a Problem
• Response Tends to Try to Solve the Problem for the Student
• Messages Tend to Divert the Student or Avoid the Student Altogether
• Active Listening
• Factors of Affecting Listening
Effective communication for effective teachingmarpasha
Effective communication for effective teaching is an important aspect of any teaching learning process. Today’s competitive world demands from teachers to teach better, smarter, and effective. The course contents worth nothing if not communicated effectively. To get it across the students a teacher has to be very effective in his communication and presentation skills. An effective communication is always stimulating, inspiring, motivating and adds fuel to the fire if presenter possesses that igniting spark. Unfortunately, many teachers do not realize this aspect. Effective communication is very important for effective teaching. A workshop has been delivered at Directorate of Staff Development (Lahore) to the newly employed school teachers. This workshop coveres various aspects which can help teacher to make their communication stimulating, inspiring, and motivating. The workshop covers following topics
• What is Communication and Why Is It Important?
• What is Persuasion?
• The Rhetorical Approach to Instructional Communication
• Role of Teachers' Credibility
• Role of Clarity
• Role of Humor
• Role of Immediacy
• Factors Facilitate Openness and Acceptance
• Helpful Hints for Effective Communication
• Factors Encouraging Student Responses
• Roadblocks to Communication
• Responses Tend to Communicate Inadequacies and Faults
• Messages Try to Make the Student Feel Better or Deny there is a Problem
• Response Tends to Try to Solve the Problem for the Student
• Messages Tend to Divert the Student or Avoid the Student Altogether
• Active Listening
• Factors of Affecting Listening
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Discussion 1
An important step in preparing our classrooms and curriculum is getting to know our students as individuals and building a relationship that is reciprocal and characterized by trust. Jaruszewicz (2013) discusses the importance of building individual connections, stating that
Building trust requires connecting with each child on a personal level, so that they know you care about them and what happens to them, are curious about what they think, and firm with them when they need guidance. These things give children the emotional security they need to share with you their impressions, confidences, questions, and fears—information you can use to develop, adapt, and personalize whatever curriculum you use to best represent what your children know and do. (Jaruszewicz, 2013, section 3.3, para. 32)
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· Discuss one or more strategies you will use to gather information on your students in an effort to get to know them and their family (interest inventory, home visit, etc.). Include the benefits of the strategy and use a specific example of how you plan to implement it in your classroom.
· Reflect on the reading, “Tips for Developing Positive Teacher Student Relationships.” Discuss two approaches you will use to build trust with each of your students and why you believe these approaches will be effective.
· Reflect on the reading, “Reciprocal Relationships.” Discuss two approaches you will use to build trust with families and why you believe these approaches will be effective.
· Discuss one or more strategies you can use to prepare your classroom to represent the students, such as through a family bulletin board or a community college. Support your strategies with the text and at least one scholarly resource.
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2. CONTENTS
• Building Fluency through the Repeated
Reading Method
• Teaching Conversation with Trivia
• Eyes on English
• Improving Culture by Positive
Communication
3. Building English Fluency
Did you come across students who stumble through reading
passages or pore over every word in an expressionless manner?
Solution: Repeated Reading
4. Building English Fluency
What is Repeated Reading?
RR is a method where the student reads and
rereads a text silently or aloud from two to four
times to reach a predetermined level of speed,
accuracy, and comprehension.
Why is it important?
With ineffective reading patterns, non-fluent
readers typically fall behind their peers and do
not learn to enjoy the act of studying.
5. Building English Fluency
Advantages of Repeated Reading?
• Progress in relatively short periods of time.
• students learn to read faster and more Accurately.
• Can be used against students facing difficulty with pacing, expression,
or word recognition.
• Helps students in completing a passage in faster time (speed),
increasing words read correctly (accuracy), and reading for a better
understanding of the text (comprehension).
• RR builds their confidence and encourages them to invest more time
and effort into achieving the skill of reading fluently.
8. This program, which first aired in the United Kingdom
in 1998, is now shown in 71 different countries and
has 45 different versions in a variety of languages.
Desire to show off one’s knowledge of
trivia is universal.
It has the potential to interest and motivate
learners.
It can be like a breath of fresh air in classes.
It introduces a wide range of topics into the
classroom, which can lead to free conversation.
Who wants to be a millionaire?
11. Eyes on English is a SGVP wide campaign to
promote the use of English.
Teachers can increase English usage through an
activity that is practical, fun, and easy to
implement.
Conduct brief, secret observations of classrooms
to see if English is being spoken.
Activities that excite students and result in
authentic, creative, and spontaneous language use
will typically achieve better results than
boring lectures, repetitive lessons, or the rote
memorization of grammatical structures.
Solution: Eyes on English
12.
13. • Any School culture may be hard to define, but one thing is certain: You
know what positive school culture is when you see it and when you feel it.
• When a student, a parent, a new teacher or a district administrator walks
into SGVP for the first time, he or she knows immediately whether or not
this is a place he or she wants to be. How does your school environment
feel to a newcomer? Hostile or welcoming? Worn out or energetic?
Despairing or hopeful?
• A school’s culture is determined by the values, shared beliefs and day-in,
day-out behaviour of the entire community—students, teachers, families
and staff. It is the countless small moments in the classroom, the
important traditions and the invisible rules, the praise, the discipline and
the expectations for good or for bad that make up the experience of being
in your school.
• If your school culture is not what you want it to be, the time to commit to
change is now. With determination and a full team effort, your school can
be the kind of place that makes visitor
14.
15. Life is all about relationships. Building a positive
environment in individual classrooms and
throughout our whole school takes
commitment and consistency from the whole
team—our administrators, teachers and support
staff. But we can make it happen, even in this
challenging environment.
16. 1. Build Strong Relationships
Our success at creating a well-managed students depends more than anything else on
the quality of the relationships that teachers forge with students.
Staff–student relationships influence everything—from the social climate to the
individual performances of your students.
The research on this is clear. When students feel liked and respected by their teachers,
they find more success in school, both academically and behaviourally.
Conversely, when interpersonal relationships are weak and trust is lacking, fear and
failure will likely start to define Student’s culture.
Building strong relationships needs to be a school wide priority.
How do you do it? Teachers need to have time to talk to their students in and out of
the classroom. The goal should be for every adult in the building to maintain a high
rate of positive interactions with students and to show genuine interest in their lives,
their activities, their goals and their struggles.
17. 2. Teach Essential Social Skills
How to share, how to listen to others, how to disagree respectfully—these
are the kinds of essential social skills we expect our students to have.
But the truth is they may not have learned them.
Whether it’s first grade or 12th grade, we need to be prepared to teach
appropriate social-emotional behaviours.
“You can’t hold kids accountable for something you’ve
never told them,”
Behaviour should be treated like academics, and students should be taught
the skills they need to execute desired behaviours.
These behaviours and values include honesty, sensitivity, concern and respect
for others, a sense of humour, reliability, and more. Together as a staff, we
should identify the social skills we want our students to have and the step-by-
step routines to teach them.
18. 3. Get on the Same Page
Every classroom environment contributes to your school culture.
Sometimes, for real change to occur with students, it’s the adults who have to
change first. Together as a staff, we need to create a shared vision of your school.
That means developing consistent school rules and ways of defining and meeting
student behaviour.
When students believe that the rules are fair and consistently enforced, it goes a long
way toward building trust.
Inappropriate behaviour shouldn’t be laughed off in one classroom and punished in
another.
“A strong set of school rules tells your
students ‘We know you can achieve. This is
the positive environment you deserve.’”
19. 4. Clarify Classroom and School Rules
Classroom rules communicate your expectations to your students.
They tell students, “this is the positive environment you deserve. This
is the standard of behaviour we know you can achieve.”
Positive rules help create a predictable, stable environment that is more
conducive to healthy interactions. Ideally, classroom rules are simple and
declarative (e.g., “Be respectful and kind.”). They don’t need to address every
possible problem.
You don’t need a rule about gum chewing or water bottle use, for instance—
your policies on these issues should be clear from your overarching
expectations for good behaviour.
Most important, rules need to be consistent across the building. The same
expectations need to apply in the classroom, the Dining hall and the cafeteria
equally.
20. 5. Teach All Students Problem Solving
Problems will always come up inside and outside of school. Students are
much more likely to recognize and resolve them appropriately when we teach
them how to do so.
Problem solving can also be used retrospectively (with the luxury of
hindsight) to help students make better decisions in the future.
We can use the SODAS method to teach students the general skills of
problem solving.
• SODAS is an acronym for the following steps:
• S - Define the SITUATION.
• O - Examine OPTIONS available to deal with the problem.
• D - Determine the DISADVANTAGES of each option.
• A - Determine the ADVANTAGES of each option.
• S – Decide on a SOLUTION and practice.
21. 6. Be Role Models
At school, students learn as much by watching as by doing.
Observing the actions of others influences how they respond to their
environment and cope with unfamiliar situations.
Think about what messages our behaviour communicates.
For example, research has shown that if a student is rejected by his
peers, the rejection is more likely to stop if the teacher models warm
and friendly behaviour to the isolated student. The opposite is also
true.
Educators set the tone.
22. 7. Set Appropriate Consequences
Effective consequences are not simply punishments and never
delivered in anger. They show young people the connection between
what they do and what happens as a result of their choices or actions.
Consequences need to be appropriate, immediate and consistent.
Equally important, they need to be delivered with empathy, not in
anger.
For example, a student detention for misbehaving on the bus isn’t
necessarily the best consequence. Instead, the student might write a
letter of apology to the bus driver and serve as “bus monitor” for one
week.
23. 8. Praise Students for Good Choices
Kids don’t care what you know until they know that you care.
Many of our students, especially those who struggle, don’t receive nearly
enough positive feedback in the classroom or in their personal lives.
“When kids are taught with a proactive, praise-heavy approach, they
tend to do better,”.
But be specific. Overly generalized comments such as “Good job!” don’t really
help. Complimenting a specific behaviour (“Thanks for showing respect to our
visiting guest!”), on the other hand, reinforces that particular behaviour.
How do you start?
Lets start by giving 15 compliments a day, or 25 or even 40. You might just be
amazed at the difference it makes.
24. Summing Up...
Use RR Method to improve fluency of English Reading.
Use Trivia as a classroom activity since it has the
potential to motivate learners...
Monitor and observe English usage in the School.
Building a positive environment is TEAM WORK.
You should now be confident in your ability to...
Help students read fluently and speak fluently in English.