[LIT] (no subject)

[NCTeacher]

I must have missed the question that prompted these wonderful Reponses...so 
I hope I'm not off topic.

I really like Setting Limits in the Classroom. (I can't remember why...that 
darn age thing...but I know when I read it I kept saying, "Yes...this is 
good.")

When I first began teaching (in Florida) I took a week-long CHAMPS course 
during the summer. It helped a lot. Actually, now that I think about it, the 
thing that helped the most was being able to discuss problems and solutions 
with the instructor, a man named Chuck Yerger. (I think that's how you spell 
it.) He was quite good. (As an aside--he had taught Brittney Spears and 
Justin Timberlake social studies. This really got our attention!)

He was big on explicitly teaching routines at the beginning of the year. We 
had to come up with the "critical attribute" of the rule or routine. We then 
created a mini-lesson on how we would teach it. His ideas have stayed with 
me all these years.

Kim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "May Dartez" <maydartez at charter.net>
To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." 
<lit at literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [LIT] (no subject)


> Another excellent book on the subject is
>
> The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students What They Need and Getting
> What You Want by Jonathon C. Erwin.
>
>
> It is about how much easier your job becomes when you meet students
> needs for power (over themselves/choice), fun, security, love, and
> belonging, and it gives you ways to meet these needs.
>
> Awesome book! I can't recommend it enough.
>
> May
>
>
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