Ch 13:(p441-456)

Problem solving skill of effective teachers

Source of problems: (441)
Students deprived of these basic needs. Some o problem and those of students re fueled by the
inability to meet secondary, or learned needs.
What kinds of classroom-related problems do teachers face?
- Affiliation is defined as the teachers s need to establish and maintain good relationship
with others in the school. When teachers describe their day-to-day concernts, the
problems are that: liking some or all of their students, getting students to them.

Affiliation is especially strong in persons who elect to teach.

- Control: is that the teacher need to have students behave well or appropriately.
- Shen students do not behave appropriately, two things an happened. 1. Animosity can
develop between teachers and students, resulting also in an affiliation problem.
- Social orientated
- Pursue only classroom goals that are truly and attainable
- Analyze the factors that may be affecting the problem situation
- Use positive techniques for managing behavior
- Use the punishment sparingly and appropriately
- Teach students to manage their own behavior
Parent relationships and hoe conditions:
1. Students homes impact school success
2. Achieve constructive parent relationships, teachers and parents or guardians must be
mutually supportive.
3. Perceptions of lack if competence also come into play and thus interfere with good
relationship.
4. Teachers need to know what students home and community conditions are like and
relatedly, the teachers desire to influence them in positive
5. Home conditions may be beyond the control of parents
Students success;
Kinds of success problems
Obstacles to students success
Teacher behavior linked to students success
Preventing and resolving classroom problems
- Preventing classroom problems
- Resolving classroom problems
- The problem solving approach:
- 1. State the problem
- 2. Identify the goal
- S2: value the goal
- S3: analyses of the problem situation
- S4 taring the potential solutions
- S5: implementing and evaluating the best solutions
Developing a problem-solving attitude

Ch14: Reflecting skills of effective teachers (460)

Thanksgiving Reconsidered
Character of reflective practitioners:
a. Reflecting practitioners take responsibility
b. Reflective teachers are sinceres as they closely investigate their teaching
c. Spiritual and inquiry characterizes teachers
d. Individual nature
Benefits of reflecting on Teaching: (463)
a. Enhance your learning about teaching
b. Have a concrete learning experience
c. Think back on the distribution of graders
d. Learning process is to integrate your reflection with what you already know and believe
about teaching
e. Advantages 2: increase your ability to analyze and understand classroom events
f. Advantages 3: reflecting on teaching will enhance your classroom life as a teacher by
helping you establish an inviting, predictable, and thoughtful environment.
g. Personal and professional transformation

Developing reflecting thinking (465

- Reflective process: in comparative reflection, you explore alternative perspectives or
interpretations that hep you understand why the event escribed happened that way
- Becoming a reflective teacher: discuss;
- dialogue journals;
- a portfolio;
- action research;
- laboratory experiences;
- reflective teaching;