Written by Curtis Trainer, a professor at University of Colorado, in 2016 this article concerns educating future teachers on how to be more effective. Focusing mainly on grades Kindergarten thru twelfth his techniques could be easily applied to educators of all students. Trainer describes his time as not only a teacher but an administrator charged with hiring future teachers. Frustrated by seeing many educators being hired without proper background education on how to be a teacher, Trainer formed five “High Traction Strategies”. These strategies are a solid foundation for any teacher to start with.
The first strategy is to make a personal connection. Trainer notes that this is easier done in the lower grades when you see the same 26 or so …show more content…
This doesn’t mean subject your students to more tests and quizzes. It can be as simple as asking the students questions during the lesson. Also asking the students questions and then having them discuss it with one another. Using the Socratic Method can develop a dynamic classroom environment. As for providing timely feedback that can be accomplished by writing more than a grade on their assignments. Students thrive on feedback and suggestions on how they can better themselves.
The third strategy for educating successful students is a tie in with the first two. Provide your students with a safe place to fail. Students need to feel safe academically and when they trust you and know you are there to provide feedback, they will try harder with less fear of failure. Afterall, failure can be the best teacher. As often as possible, provide your students chance to revise and alter their failures as well. The ability to learn from their mistakes helps build their confidence inside and outside the …show more content…
Most teachers know and accept their aren’t enough hours in the day to teach everything they want to and the students need to know. Trainer recommends reviewing the curriculum before the school session begins and sorting the lessons into three categories. The lessons that cannot be skipped, the lessons that could be skipped without much problem at the next level, and the lessons that are not too important at all. After sorting through the curriculum it is much easier to set a pace for your teaching style. This ensures the students get the best of what the need for the next grade.
Using these five teaching strategies inside the classroom help set the students up for success. They feel important, safe, heard from, listened too, and are adequately educated all year. I could easily see myself using all of Curtis Trainer’s five teaching strategies inside an elementary classroom. His techniques are simple enough to be easily applied but thought out enough that they would be extremely effective. Getting to know my students on personal level will be easy in my preferred grade level. If the student feels like I genuinely care about them they will be more successful in the classroom.
Continually assessing the students and providing quick feedback could be a challenge with little ones but certainly not impossible. Teaching them how to discuss ideas with one another without getting rowdy or off topic is a lesson in
The first strategy is to make a personal connection. Trainer notes that this is easier done in the lower grades when you see the same 26 or so …show more content…
This doesn’t mean subject your students to more tests and quizzes. It can be as simple as asking the students questions during the lesson. Also asking the students questions and then having them discuss it with one another. Using the Socratic Method can develop a dynamic classroom environment. As for providing timely feedback that can be accomplished by writing more than a grade on their assignments. Students thrive on feedback and suggestions on how they can better themselves.
The third strategy for educating successful students is a tie in with the first two. Provide your students with a safe place to fail. Students need to feel safe academically and when they trust you and know you are there to provide feedback, they will try harder with less fear of failure. Afterall, failure can be the best teacher. As often as possible, provide your students chance to revise and alter their failures as well. The ability to learn from their mistakes helps build their confidence inside and outside the …show more content…
Most teachers know and accept their aren’t enough hours in the day to teach everything they want to and the students need to know. Trainer recommends reviewing the curriculum before the school session begins and sorting the lessons into three categories. The lessons that cannot be skipped, the lessons that could be skipped without much problem at the next level, and the lessons that are not too important at all. After sorting through the curriculum it is much easier to set a pace for your teaching style. This ensures the students get the best of what the need for the next grade.
Using these five teaching strategies inside the classroom help set the students up for success. They feel important, safe, heard from, listened too, and are adequately educated all year. I could easily see myself using all of Curtis Trainer’s five teaching strategies inside an elementary classroom. His techniques are simple enough to be easily applied but thought out enough that they would be extremely effective. Getting to know my students on personal level will be easy in my preferred grade level. If the student feels like I genuinely care about them they will be more successful in the classroom.
Continually assessing the students and providing quick feedback could be a challenge with little ones but certainly not impossible. Teaching them how to discuss ideas with one another without getting rowdy or off topic is a lesson in