DISQUS

So You Want To Teach?: The Adaptive Unconscious: You Never Get A Second Chance To Make A First Impression

  • Angela_Powell_Watson · 1 month ago
    HI, Joel, thanks for the recommendation for 'Blink'--I'll definitely check it out! I read 'Outliers' last year and found there were lots of meaningful implications for educators (you can read the review here: http://thecornerstoneforteachers.blogspot.com/2...).

    One question for you about the Yellow Board (I followed the link and couldn't find the comment): what did the person mean by starting class looking for 5 kids to send to the office? How does that work?
  • Joel · 1 month ago
    The post was no longer on The Yellow Board. Basically, the idea is that when you go out there prepared to take care of misbehaving students, they see that you mean business and don't mess with you. We'll see what happens...
  • teachin' · 1 month ago
    I'm sure they'd see you mean business, and I'm all for keeping discipline in a class, but.....sending five kids to the office every day? Was the writer speaking hyperbolically? Because I feel like (a) my admin would get fed up with that right quick, (b) I'd just be showing the kids that I can't take care of my own discipline, which is not a great precedent, and (c) the kids would think I was a huge asshole and then wouldn't trust me. First impressions are certainly important, but those aren't impressions I'd want to make.
  • Joel · 1 month ago
    Honestly, I'm not going to send anyone to the office. But I am going to go into classes prepared to make phone calls home and assign detention...
  • teachin' · 1 month ago
    That makes sense to me. We have a school-wide tardy detention that I don't feel is a particularly effective deterrent. So I make kids call home when they come tardy to my class, and I've only had two kids be tardy more than once, and those both only twice (and that not for quite a while). I'm all for showing them we're serious and they need to respond accordingly.