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? 😎

How you respond to wrong answers in your class matters😎

Assessment

Even when answers given by learners are wrong, they inform the next stage of learning and help correct any misconception promptly.

It is best to give a clear, colorful and tactful response without discouraging the student who has given a wrong answer.

How do you respond to wrong answers during your lessons? 😎

Assessing your performance thus far.....

It's the 3rd and final term of the session.
Have you been  diligently monitoring the goals you set from the SIP for the session?

How far and just how well have you done so far?

Have you done a comparative analysis of the performance in academics in the various classes, how did the graph look? 

What about performance in the other areas you planned to improve on?

What can be done to salvage or improve within these 'dying-moments' of the session?

It's never too late - more attention can still be given to those identified children, in those identified subjects.

Effective inspiration that can yield results, can still be given to your team.

Where there's a will there is a way!

Teach emotional Intelligence, teach ACTIVE listening 😎

Emotional Intelligence

Conversation as a social skill can be awkward and difficult to acquire, but as you encourage your children to continue to supply the information while they are expressing their feelings, as you listen and draw them out, you help them to master the art of conversation.

Providing the right kind of information during conversation is an important social skill that our children need to acquire now against the future when they will be handling more mature conversations.

We as teachers, need to disabuse the cultural mindset that it is only the 'local gossip' (amebo/gbeborun) that ACTIVELY LISTENS to what is being said and what is going on and 'polite people' ignore emotive reactions around them.

Are you helping the learners in your class to develop the art of conversation by teaching them to ACTIVELY listen? 😎

Getting your classroom well laid out AHEAD of time pays😎

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Cast your mind back to when you were in school as a student... were the lessons you enjoyed and in which you achieved the most, held in a well laid out or a muddled classroom?

Let's invest that little extra time and effort in getting everything ready, we'll ahead of when the children would be coming into the classroom - it pays😎