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Describe Technique. Provide an example script or illustration.

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Right is Right

No Opt Out

Stretch It

Normalizing error

Ratio

Warm Teacher “Nice” “Has good rules” “Solves problems” “Has extra recesses”

Strict Teacher “Mean” “Has very bad rules, like you can only sit down, you can’t get up from your seat until recess” “You can never talk in school”

WARM STRICT

Read and share the student testimonials about warm and strict teachers.

DISCUSS: how does student perception of a warm/strict

teacher compare to our own?

WARM STRICT

Clear Consistent Firm Unrelenting

Positive Enthusiastic Caring Thoughtful

“When you are consistent, firm and unrelenting but at

the same time positive, thoughtful, and enthusiastic

you send the message to students that having high

expectations is part of being a caring person.”

1. Explain to students why you are doing what you are doing. Explain everything.

2. Distinguish between behavior and people.

3. Get over it. Demonstrate that consequences are temporary. 4. Use warm, non-verbal communication.

Just Right

Too Strict

Too Warm

1 minute scenarios

Just Right

Too Strict

Too Warm

The student is a gifted, amiable comic, but you’ve just had to issue a light

consequence because a one-liner that you, too, found funny has caused a

distraction.

A lonely student in a funk slumps at a desk.

Just Right

Too Strict

Too Warm

Just Right

Too Strict

Too Warm

A student whose parents are going through a divorce

complains about having to do an assignment at home

What “Teach Like a Champion” strategy has been most influential on your teaching practice?

Why?