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Teaching Technique-Make students like your classThe question you obvious have is, HOW?

Consider this, if you went bowling for the first time and threw gutter balls every time. After it was over, you would probably say, “I don’t like bowling!”

If you played golf for the first time and couldn’t even hit the ball. You just hit dirt and missed the ball every time, you would probably say, “Golf is not right for me!”

If you went to archery range for the first time and hit the… Continue

A TEACHING TECHNIQUE- US vs. THEM

It exists everywhere between many different groups, sometimes it exists on the conscious level, sometimes sub-consciously. Consider these groups, tall people vs. short people, bald people vs. people with long hair, Blondes vs. brunettes, and TEACHERS vs. STUDENTS.



Imagine this diverseness as an actual physical gap.

Here is the concept

The larger the gap the… Continue

TEACHING TECHNIQUE-THE TEAM



The concept of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy taught me, “What you say is what you get”.

Here is the TEAM technique. First, start calling the groups of students you teach classes and call them teams. That is your first period class is a team, the second period a team etc.) You may choose to call them Learning Teams. Let each team choose a motto, a hand shake, a hand sign, a team song, you get the idea.

What makes a team? A common goal, of course.… Continue

In case you are too young to know, Cecil B. Demille was a Legendary Movie director who is known for the most exciting productions in movies. (This was before CGI, special computer effects).



This technique works best if you have a digital camera or a video camera. (You can now buy one that’s adequate for under $100.00). However, that is not a requirement.



My ninth grade Biology, and Science Classes put on Presentations.… Continue

A TEACHING TECHNIQUE—ATTITUDE

The first day in my class this is what I said to my students.

You are very lucky. Just by luck you have landed in the classroom of the best teacher in the school! I am so smart that intelligence is all over my body. As I walk around the classroom some of that intelligence will break off, float in the air and land on YOU.

It is impossible for you to sit in my classroom… Continue

TEACHING TECHNIQUE 35 – THE VISITOR



All the techniques will not work for all classes. But some are really worth trying. This one really worked for me. I think it worked because it made the students realize

I REALLY CARED



Here it is. I informed my students that I was taking classes every night (and in the summer) working on my doctorate degree. I explained to them that had I spoken positively about them in each of my classes because I was really proud of them. I told… Continue