Are we inspiring and rewarding demonstration of Emotional Intelligence in our schools?

It's end of the session and prize-giving/Award presentation day is coming.

As teachers and schools, we should identify children who show empathy and other aspects of Emotional Intelligence and reward them in age-appropriate ways.

Awards should be given to the kindest/most caring /most thoughtful in the class.

Is your school going to reward and motivate Emotional Intelligence through awards to identifiable ambassadors of EQ (Emotional Intelligence)? 😎

Seamless transitions, poor transitions, no transitions...Transitions make or break a lesson 😎

Classroom Management 1D

If transitions are not well planned and executed, the lesson objectives will not be met and that lesson will not be satisfactory.

Well executed or seamless transitions on the other hand, contribute towards an outstanding lesson.

Have the lessons you were observed teaching and in which you were rated as giving an unsatisfactory performance been because of poor or absent transitions?

Learn how to factor in transitions during your lessons 😎

Tips on qualitative observation of a lesson 😎

#Assessment Of Teachers while Observing their lessons:

How does the teacher introduce the lesson? What is the starter? Does it hook their attention or is it boring?

How is the lesson introduced?

Are expectations and lesson objectives made known clearly?

Is learning guided, led or ignored?

Are learning tasks differentiated?

Are qualitative resources used to move learning forward during this lesson?

Is collaboration amongst learners planned for and implemented?

Are the lesson objectives gone back to at some point during the lesson to keep on track?

How were the transitions, if any?

Were  all 3 domains of learning assessed?

Is there a plenary? Does the teacher take cognizance of the result of this plenary?

Did the teacher show reflection on the last lesson's mistake with a view to improvement in this lesson?

Did every child achieve and learn during this lesson?

Was this lesson a poor, satisfactory, good or outstanding lesson?

When you go and observe a lesson or if you are going to be observed, do you factor in all the above? 😎

Keep working on your practice to bring about improvement.😎

'A sea that does not have water flowing into it becomes dead, dead seas stink'
- proverb

Don't live on past glory! Always strive to improve. Watch other colleagues teach live or via the internet. Keep working on your practice to bring about improvement.

Reflection and being open to coaching and mentoring are very vital towards good classroom management.

How seriously are you taking this aspect of your development? 😎

How effectively have you been assessing your lessons? 😎

Assessment is used to monitor teaching and inform planning.

At the end of every lesson, were you able to use various assessment strategies to judge if the lesson objectives were met and identify what you could do better?

We have completed half of the last term of the academic session. How effectively have you used assessment to inform your day to day teaching activities so far? 😎

Using Assessment to turn round underachievement

Assessment is used to detect students who are underachieving so that prompt remedies can be proffered.

Have you been using your assessments to identify under achieving students in your class? Have you had a word with them to let them know they need to get back on target?

Did you set targets for them in the first place? 😎

Transitions are very important in a lesson

Transitions And Classroom Management

The changes in the activities during a lesson, which help to break up the monotony that could creep into a lesson and make it boring, are called transitions.

Think back to when you were a young student, what made lessons boring or positively memorable for you?

The more seamless the transition, the better. Learners will hardly notice because it just flows from one activity, to another and learning is fun. Can you remember this aspect of your best lessons?

Does your planning include the ‘when’ and ‘what’ of transitions? 😎