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Action Plan: Danceroom Behavior Management

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I   Warm Up   II   Video   III      Action Plan (In general) Your Beliefs One Classroom Rule Class Procedures (Schedule) Minute to Minute 30 Classroom Procedures to Head Off Behavior Problems Positive Consequences Free and Short term Intermitten Monthly and Once a Year Correcting Behavior ( Behavior Contracts) The Finale Develop, Teach, Share, Review ---------------------       IV   Action Plan (In detail) Our Class at a Glance Introduce your philosophy of teaching Our Rule Respect Others Our Class Procedures Create Schedule First (Monday - Friday / 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Choose from the website the Class Procedures. See how they benefit the child and why. Positive Consequences Free and frequent, Intermittent, Strong and Long Term First Week, First Day - Minute by Minute Write about every minute that you are accounted for, even class, every procedure, how I teach it ...

Classroom Rules & Redirecting Behaviors

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  I Warm Up II   Classroom Rules and Redirecting Behavior     Question1   What framework does the National Center for Quality Teaching and Learning use? Explain.      Question 2 What is the importance of creating and using classroom rules?   Question 3   How do you create the rules and what do yo do with them?  Question 4 Why is it important to plan ahead?   III   Video     Question 5 What does redirecting behavior consist of? Question 6 Which are the different ways in which behavior can be redirected?   -------------------  IV Activity Redirecting Behavior Through Dance, Movement and Song     1    2     3     Question 7 Describe the rules of behavior that you see applied in each video.     V   Activity     Group Activity   a) Using the videos above as a reference, create a lesson plan in which you teac...

Review & Quiz

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    Teaching Philosophy: Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. ... It develops these ideas with specific, concrete examples of what the teacher and learners will do to achieve those goals. Importantly, your teaching philosophy statement also explains why you choose these options.   Mission Statement: A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, identifying the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation.   Vision Statement: A vision statement is an inspirational statement of an idealistic emotional future of a company or group. Vision describes the basic human emotion that a founder intends to be experienced by the people the organization interacts with, it grounds the group so it can actualize some existential impac...

Learning Theories and Teaching Methods

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I   Check In   II    Warm Up   III     It is important that students have a theoretic foundation when creating their own teaching methodology. In class were covered the major theoretic paradigms used in education now-a days.  The 5 Educational Learning Theories 1. Behaviorism : Behaviorism is using reinforcement and punishment techniques to encourage or discourage certain behaviors. The environment around us shapes us because we are blank slates and so the behaviors of others can influence our behaviors as well. We can be conditioned to follow certain behavior patterns by the people around us. An example can be rats who push the lever everytime they get food and then keep continuing that behavior of pushing the lever to get more food. Their behavior of pushing the lever has been conditioned by behaviorism.  2. Cognitivism : Cognitivism focuses more on the mind and the thinking process through reading texts and lect...