Harry Wong

What is one thing you never do on the first day of school?

• Start the day with an activity

• Give out homework

• Set up classroom rules

• Have the students introduce themselves

Control means knowing: what you are doing, your classroom procedures, and your professional procedures.

• True

• False

Your success during the school year is determined by ______.

• How many field trips you plan

• How much the students are allowed to play

• What you do on the first days of school

• The amount of homework you give out

What are the four stages of teaching in order

• Impact, survival, fantasy and mastery

• Fantasy, survival, impact and mastery

• Survival, fantasy, mastery and impact

• Fantasy, survival, mastery and impact

Teachers who teach effectively and manage their classrooms successfully is what stage of teaching?

• Fantasy

• Mastery

• Impact

• Survival

What stage of teaching do teachers not go beyond?

• Mastery

• Fantasy

• Survival

• Impact

What is impact?

• The action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another

• The teacher knows how to get MOST of their students to the peak of their learning ability

• The teacher knows how to get ALL of their students to the peak of their learning ability

• The teacher knows how to teach their students the best they can

What are the two types of rules?

• Classroom and playground

• Bad and good

• General and specific

• School and home

What is the stage of survival?

• Being friends with the students

• Rely on ineffective classroom management

• Activities should be fun

• Tries harder to find activities for the students

The first days of school are critical for obtaining stage three teaching effectiveness

• False

• True