No Fear In My Classroom by Frederick C. Wootan

Author:Frederick C. Wootan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Adams Media, Inc.
Published: 2009-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

LET’S SUMMARIZE .

1. The world now reels with increased violence and violent kids.

2. The media influences your perception of this violence.

3. The kids identify their feelings by the way they dress, their hygienic practices, and their friends. Pay attention to these flags.

4. Not all kids are violent, and most will never become violent, but those who are need careful attention.

5. The common thread within the personality of all children, regardless of age, is egocentricity.

CHAPTER 15

Why Do My Students Keep Getting

Distracted?

Aren’t there any two kids that are alike anymore? Were there ever two alike? If you teach today you have asked yourself questions like that.

We base our teachings and their success on modern practices of educational diversity. But before these practices were put into place, how did we get a leader like Abraham Lincoln, or a corporate legend like Jack Welch (former chairman of General Electric), or a marketing wizard like Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart), or an economic intellectual giant like Alan Greenspan (former chairman of the Federal Reserve and author of The Age of Turbulence )? How could our schools have produced these very different individuals? Easy, you say, because they were geniuses. Maybe, or maybe the simpler ways of teaching back then worked in times more simple than today.

In today’s driven society, you and your students may feel lost or useless if you are not multitasking. Your students don’t know any other way, and they really think boredom will kill them. They must fill every waking moment with multiple inputs to bombard their minds. However, if they can listen to the latest chart-topper, eat a meal, and play some killer video game all at the same time, why do they find it so difficult, if not impossible, to focus on reading The Village Blacksmith, then write about a person in today’s world who performs analogous work in their town, and follow it up by working on a linear equation, showing all the steps toward solution?

You need to get them to focus by making your classroom a diverse learning environment.

Teaching to Various Intellectual Levels

Abraham Lincoln attended a one-room schoolhouse. What could be more diverse than students in grade levels from first to twelfth all in one room with the same teacher? But that was another time and, although the room was filled with diversity, the teacher and the lessons were not. Even though the school buildings grew and changed their look, there remained a dreaded consistency of content to be choked down, memorized, and regurgitated back as knowledge.

Humans do have a tendency to rely on monotonous, mind-numbing, cookie-cutter regularity. Most of us shrink away from change. We hope that we have misunderstood our senses, and that the appearance of change really isn’t real. However, the truth is that once we understand a change that has occurred, it will improve our lives. So, why should we find it so disturbing and scary?

Keep on Your T oes to Keep Your S tudents Interested

Even after more than forty years as a successful stand-up comedian, Red Skelton still became so nervous that he threw up before a performance.

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