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citizen vs. tourist

Objectives

• Explain value of classroom community building
• Define immediacy and its impact in the classroom
• Locate resources for dealing with difficult student situations
• Identify potential use of at least 3 new instructional technologies
• Prepare a 10 minute presentation of ACP portfolio

Dealing with Difficult Students

Prevention

Community

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” Dr. Haim Ginnott

What do you value?

teacher immediacy

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Finale

Check yourself

• Value of community?
• Immediacy and its impact?
• Resources for managing difficult students?
• 3 new techs to try?
• Know what is expected?

Immediacy

• The perception of physical and psychological closeness between communicators
• Principle: “People are drawn toward persons and things they like, evaluate highly, and prefer; and they avoid or move away from things they dislike, evaluate negatively, or do not prefer.”

Research finds positive relationships