For the next four or five blog posts I will focus on an article I read in Educational Leadership, a magazine published by ASCD (American Society of Curriculum Developers) about Highly Affective Teachers. The Highly Affective Practices are designed to help teachers examine their individual emotional states and how that interacts with students. Emotional states or wellness of students is a variable in our setting that often doesn't get discussed much. As teachers/support staff we must be able to not only be content experts but experts in helping students deal with multiple life situations. Here is the link to the whole article; http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct15/vol73/num02/The-Seven-Habits-of-Highly-Affective-Teachers.aspx.
The linked document here is for habits 3 and 4. I would recommend just looking at these two. We will examine all of them over the next few posts.
Questions to consider:
1. What ways to do you get to know students so they aren't just another student in your room?
2. How can you more effectively plan for individual students when you really get to know them?
3. How do colleagues view you in relation to talking to you about your teaching techniques?
4. What do you think of the idea of giving a separate grade from the "project grade" for parts of it like meeting deadlines and following directions?
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