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Classroom management article
« Reply #660 on: February 27, 2012, 03:22:57 pm »
Also, I am re-posting this great article about ways to consider classroom management, discipline, establishing rules, punishment, teacher's role, etc.

Give it a read to provoke some useful thinking before you go back into the fray! :)

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/3142.html

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #661 on: February 28, 2012, 01:32:12 pm »
Hello everyone,

I hope that everyone had a nice vacation. I was just wondering about anyone's ideas on using stickers, or "dollars" as a reward system for your classes. I want to try doing this as I think it'll be better than just rewarding class game winners with candy. However, I haven't tried it on a large scale with big classes, one class per week. So, I was wondering if anyone has used such a system before, and if so, do they have any pointers for a newbie like me? Thanks very much in advance! I appreciate any help that I can get! Take care everyone.

I use a raffle system (found on waygook). They can get a little raffle ticket if they do something good. Then I collect them at the end of the class. In the beginning of the next class we draw for a winner - and they get a piece of candy. I have large classes of 40 so this works instead of handing out loads of candy. Students can get more than one ticket, so better luck for candy.

I also plan to use the tickets to fill out a chart of those students participating to hand to my coteachers. They can use this for participation grades if they want, but I will tell my students that it is what it is- whether or not my coteacher is, it's up to them.
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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #662 on: February 28, 2012, 01:45:53 pm »
Hello!

The start of the year starts soon! Here is my first weeks lesson for GRADE 1 students. It includes:
1) Lesson Plan --- going to try to write one for each class so I have a record of all my lessons
2) What are rules -- found this on waygook, changed the pictures a little
3) Class rewards/discipline -- See my post above for reward raffle tickets
4) Introduction lesson -- a quiz game for students to learn more about their teacher - you'd have to change the pictures obviously - but it gives an idea on what to do
5) Pass the ball game -- Also found this on waygook, plan to have my coteacher push the pause button of a boombox for music while the students pass around a ball, I will switch the slides

Good luck with the start of the year! I hope I can shake off the desk warming rust! Feel free to comment or ask any questions.

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #663 on: February 29, 2012, 01:51:11 pm »
Hello all,

So, I am leaving Korean next month, but I am still here for ONE more month which means I have one more lesson for you guys! This is my Grade 1 Lesson 1 b *second dialogue* lesson. It's a combination of Cocoinkorea's weather lesson and my edited version of a friends natural disaster lesson. Enjoy! Also, I will include a natural disaster wordsearch if you guys need it.
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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #664 on: February 29, 2012, 02:02:30 pm »
I have decided to zip Grade 2 lessons 1 -12  into one zip file including lesson plans (warning some of my earlier lesson plans are not exactly 'high quality') enjoy!
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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #665 on: March 02, 2012, 11:31:32 am »
@minamteacher -- thanks for all your materials! you have saved me on more than one occasion! goodluck at your next destination!

Just curious what you have done with students on introduction week before. I always do my class procedures ppt and then play a review/learn the teacher game, but I want to change the Jeopardy game I play with my 3rd graders. Do you have any new ideas/pointers for a game for 3rd grade??

As for the teacher who previously posted about "dollar" reward systems. I've used a Tami dollar reward system for the last two years and it has worked marvelously. I have my students in teams in all of my classes. I give dollars out every time students answer questions, complete handouts, and I connect dollars or points to the game that we play each class. The team at the end of class with the MOST money wins 1 point towards their grade (participation points-- I think 5 points are allocated for my class). So, I don't give out candy unless it's an extra lesson and they need more motivation. Let me know if you have other questions about it!

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #666 on: March 02, 2012, 03:02:14 pm »
Just some classroom protocol suggestions.  Last semester I introduced a suggestion box to give some of the more introverted students an opportunity to share some of their concerns and opinions regarding the class.  I got some good feedback on lessons they liked and didn't like.  They also used it to bring issues to light regarding conflict between classmates and seat change requests.  It was pretty successful overall.

I'm going to start a translation project this year.  I'm going to use the same box to allow students to submit phrases or slang they want to know in English.  I've enlisted the help of one of my co teachers.  I'm planning on surveying some of the high level students for help with slang.  I will display the translations once a month on PowerPoint.  I might put some up in the English classroom as well.  I don't know how well the students will take to it, but I'm hoping it will spark the interest of at least a few students.

I took a Korean class where they did this.  They had the translations posted in the hallways.  There were some pretty amusing ones.

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #667 on: March 04, 2012, 02:42:31 pm »
How necessary is it to teach with these books?  Can we just make our own lesson plans?  They don't even make sense and I can't understand the Korean written all over them.

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #668 on: March 05, 2012, 09:59:53 am »
Must be the first day of school because Waygook is SUPER slow.

@renard.tami

I have three suggestions:

1) These grade 3 students don't really know each other well because they are getting used to their new homeroom, so a self introduction lesson where students find out about their classmates is helpful (I am using cocokorea's class survey sheet).

2) Students brains have turned to mush over the holidays, so  reviewing last years material might be a nice option (if you taught them last year).

3) Talk about your vacation and ask them about their vacation. You can make them do a writing exercise about their vacation if required.

@thebektionary

You don't have to worry about most of the book. The only sections that we teach are the 'Listen In' and 'Speak Out' sections (usually the first two pages of each chapter). 'Listen In' has a CD with 3 questions to answer, so you don't need to worry about the Korean on the page (you can read out the dialogue at the back of your activity book if you prefer). 'Speak Out' is just two simple dialogues for every chapter with one or two key phrases.

As for making your own lesson plans, I cannot answer that one for you because it depends entirely on your school. However, usually people spend about one or two weeks on each chapter and the rest of the time is their own lessons.

I hope that helps.
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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #669 on: March 06, 2012, 10:42:45 am »
Hey guys~ I am going to try to make an index for this book so it's not such a crazy mess since you're already going crazy with the terrible books. Here's what I need from you... List of chapters for each grade, what the cover looks like, if there are any websites that link to this book for help or CD-ROMs or whatever. It will definitely take me some time so be patient. I'm not using this textbook series so please give me as much information about it as you can. Thanks a lot.
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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #670 on: March 06, 2012, 10:58:44 am »
YES! It would be a godsend to have this all indexed!!  Thank you!

Here are the book covers and chapter listings. Not aware of any websites. I know there are CD Roms, but have never seen/used them.

List of Chapters:
ENGLISH 1
1 I’m Lucky
2 School is Fun
3 Answers on the Web
4 Welcome to my Dol Party **(not a typo)
5 The Adventures of a Bottle
6 Art is Cool
7 Namaste from India
8 I Have Butterflies in my Stomach
9 How do you Spend Your Allowance?
10 You Can be a Little Gauss
11 Meet Animal Stars
12 A Story of Two Pots

ENGLISH 2
1 So Long, Orange Sneakers
2 How Have You Been, Astronaut?
3 Heroes are all Around Us
4 Open up Your Heart
5 Think Positive
6 Renting a House
7 Who Will You Give a Ride?
8 What’s Inside Your Planner?
9 I Want to See Them in Real Life
10 What is Culture?
11 Growing Up
12 If the World Were a Village

ENGLISH 3
1 The Full Jar
2 Use it or Lose it
3 Music for Change
4 Magic Science Tricks
5 Ways of Appealing to the Mind
6 The River Rises
7 The History Behind Food
8 Sustainable Lifestyle
9 The Gift of Understanding
10 Mathematics in Beauty
11 Tell us about your Jobs
12 A Little Boy and a Puppy

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Re: Thomas Orr Textbooks (Middle School)
« Reply #671 on: March 06, 2012, 12:27:49 pm »
The CD Rom's cover everything in the book and basically look just like the book's pages with English and Korean translations of the questions and some of the vocabulary. In addition, there are Student CD 's to accompany the book as well.