Communication in the Classroom
- Make sure there is an identity as a group
- invent ways to get to know your students better
- Share feelings about teaching
- have classroom community communication
- Make communication easy for the classmates
- have different strategies for communication in the classroom
- tell the students how you feel about class each day (good or bad)
- invest time and energy to make the class effective
- model for the students the kind of thinking you want them to do
- make the class excellent
- learn your students complete profiles
- know strengths and weaknesses
- support growth in weaker areas
- discover new interests
- create a profile sheet for each student
- have students review and extend the sheet as the year progresses
- create a phrase that has meaning to a student and helps them to understand the task and that it should be done the best way they know how
- praise students when they do something well, but make it something other than "good job", maybe something like "pat your brain.
- ask students if their windshields are clear, this is a question that helps the teacher to know if the students are understanding what is being taught or if they need some help
- use words that elaborate on an idea: verify, amplify,diversify. These words can be a measure for the student's own thinking.
- lose your peace and quiet for excitement with the students
- set up goal setting conferences to show students progression and help them strive for something they want to do each time.
- use dialogue journals for teacher student conversation
- incorporate talk groups into the lesson to talk about the content and discuss further the lessons
