Teachers’ Needs in the First School Week

Jinan Karameh

Almanar Modern School

What do you think!

"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the

mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the

accumulation of others.“

-- Tyron Edwards

It’s your turn now: What is your vision Statement? (10min)

To Make your vision Statement You have to answer the following questions:

• What do you aim to accomplish as a teacher?

• What is your goal for the year, for all the years?

• What kind of a difference in students’ thinking and acting are you committed to?

Example:

• My Vision Statement:

• I will be creating knowledgeable leaders who have the ability to take their own decisions and rise with their community.

(The vision reflects your teaching ideology and strategies. It implies your classroom atmosphere)

Get to know our students

• Developmental expectation of our students (physiological, intellectual, psychomotor….)

• VARK learning styles

• Multiple intelligence

Multiple Intelligences• Verbal/Linguistic

• Logical/ mathematic

• Visual/ spatial

• Interpersonal

• Intrapersonal

• Musical

• Body/Kinesthetic

• Naturalist

• Existentialist

Brain-Based Learning

• The Brain is made of three parts: The Triune Brain

1. The Thinking Brain: Knowledge

2. The Regulating Brain: Body needs

3. The Reflex Brain: emotions

Brain Based Classroom

• Non-threatening environment

• Offers guided choice

• Teachers as learning facilitators

• Relates to real world

• Motivating

• Discovery learning

• Students are actively engaged.

Classroom decoration

• Seats

• Bulletins

• Discipline Corners

• Classroom expectations

• Learning centers

Classroom Routines

• Engaging Activity:

• Setting Classroom Routines per cycle.

• Setting Rules and Consequences.

Recipe for a Well-disciplined Class

• Well-planning

• Flexibility

• Established routines and procedures

• Consistency

• Confidence

• Positive Attitude

• Brain- Based Classroom

THANK YOU