Any advice? What would make a good student teacher for you?How should I make a good impression teaching teenagers?
*Be prepared. Make sure that you are organized and have your lessons well planned out.
*Keep your lessons MOVING! The 18 year olds might be able to handle it, but having a one hour lesson that is all lecture will lose the 11-14 year olds quickly! It is better to have a few different activities with the younger ones than one activity that takes the whole class period.
*Have some back up lessons just in case (sometimes a lesson takes far less time than we plan for and we are stuck with lots of extra time). The extra stuff can even be a fun game to review materials. As long as you do not have long periods of nothing!
*Make sure that you make classroom management a priority. Let the students know how you expect them to behave and don't be afraid to tell them when they get out of line.
*Don't be afraid to tell a student that you don't know the answer! It is better to tell them,'; I am not sure, but I will find out for you'; then to try and B.S. your way through an answer. Kids aren't stupid and they can tell if you don't know!
*Don't be afraid to ask for help/advice from the other teachers. Brand new teachers who never ask for help almost always burn out within the first few years. No one knows how to do the job perfectly from the beginning so use your coworkers for support!
*Dress professionally. That doesn't mean that you have to wear a suit all the time, but make sure your outfit doesn't blend with the kids! I assume you are young since you are just starting out. If you come to school looking polished and like an adult they will be less likely to see you as a peer and more like an authority figure.
*Just be yourself! If you truly love teaching and working with kids, it will show.How should I make a good impression teaching teenagers?
I must say that Melissa A is right on with her response. As a first year teacher myself, I came into the school, very confident that whatever I was going to do was going to work, but found out quickly otherwise.
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I've always been good with lesson plans (in terms of knowing WHAT I want to teach them), planning extra and ahead, and very good a modifying my lesson plans on the fly. That's another thing I would add.
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Make sure that you have an idea of an activity (preferably in the same area or topic you're teaching - for me, as Health and Physical Education) of something you can switch to if the class is not understanding your lesson.
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AND DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP! Melissa is so correct when she mentions that. I started feeling the burn, because I let pride get in the way before asking. I had accomplished a lot of things on my own so I tried doing that in the beginning as well.
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However, the ideas of using YouTube in your classroom, I'd highly advise against. As a teacher you are the head of your classroom, not a zoo. Yes, make the class fun, and there are sites you can go to to improve your lesson plans, but stay away from YouTube.
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And one of the other points Melissa brought up, that is crucial is dress. Even dressing in nice clothes but not tucking something in could come across as lacksidasical and unmotivated. GOOD LUCK!
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be funny, joke around(not in a bad way) get to know your students, have a good time, do fun projects and activities, help your students, games that involve what you are teaching, etc
use videos form you tube to tie the lesson into their lives. Always make connections with the students. Make it fun for the students.
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