L Butler's List: EDW679

• Twitter in the Classroom: Watch This Teacher Engage Shy Students in Learning History
• Twitter as a tool to engage introverted students in classroom lessons
• BYOT—Bring Your Own Technology—policy

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• Helpful Student-Centered Classroom Management Tips
• Traditional teaching methods and classroom management often lessen student motivation and create the opposite desired behavioral effect. Using traditional classroom management methods, students become uninterested, unmotivated, quiet, and seldom reach their desired ESL goals. By using student centered rules, teachers can create a more motivating and rewarding classroom environment.
• 1. Setting rules.
• rules must be reasonable, culturally sensitive and promote a positive learning environment.
• 2. Modeling.
• 3. Quiet start.
• Every student should have the chance to learn. If one student is talking, it removes this possibility.
• 4. The breaking of a rule.
• Always give attention to students who abide by the rules. Shift the attention away from the student.
• 5. Students decide punishments.
   If a rule is broken, immediately shift the attention from the student to the entire class and have all the students decide the punishment.
• 8. Reward good behavior.
• Allow creativity with language

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• 1. Much of the material students are required to memorize  is soon forgotten
• a  substantial part of schooling – particularly in the most traditional schools –  continues to consist of stuffing facts into students’ short-term memories.
• 2. Just knowing a lot of facts doesn’t mean you’re smart
• 3. Students are more likely to learn what they find  interesting
• 4. Students are less interested in whatever they’re  forced to do and more enthusiastic when they have some say
• 5. Just because doing x raises standardized  test scores doesn’t mean x should be done
• 6. Students are more likely to succeed in a place  where they feel known and cared about
• 7. We want children to develop in many ways, not just  academically
• 8. Just because a lesson (or book, or class, or test)  is harder doesn't mean it's better
• 9. Kids aren’t just short adults
• 10. Substance matters more than labels

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• In fact, 70–80 percent of why kids don't care has little to do with teachers themselves
• limited to about 5–10 minutes of actual instructional time per class period
• "Hope must precede responsibility because kids who lack hope have no reason to act in responsible kinds of ways,"
• "There's no reason to be motivated unless [the student] is hopeful that this particular class is somehow going to improve [his or her] life; that coming to this school is better than not coming; that coming here and performing, producing, and behaving is better than coming here and wasting time pushing other people's buttons and doing nothing."
• Five Key Ways to Awaken Motivation
• Show students how achievement benefits life.
• Create challenges that students can master.
• Focus on the teaching and learning process
• Establish relationships.
• Give rewards for an immediate gain.

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• “When it comes to a breakfast of ham and eggs, the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.”
• This old saying is roughly analogous to the issue facing schools today as they consider the kind of relationships they want to build with the parents of their students. I would characterize it as a difference between parent involvement (the chicken) and parent engagement (the pig).
• Whose Energy Drives It? Who Initiates It?
• What Is the Invitation?
• What Are the Roles Of Parents and School Staff?  
• What Is the Purpose?
• It’s All Good – But Engagement Is Best

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