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This is the place to share your ideas and implementation successes (and failures?) of our brain-based learning initiative and any other things you'd like to share with your colleagues. Feel free to share here on the home page, on your department page, or create new pages as needed.

I like to read these tips before school starts each year. Hope they help you! Delton

Here's an interesting list from the Wongs' book:

The seven things students want to know on the first day of school:

1. Am I in the right room? 2. Where am I supposed to sit? 3. What will I be doing this year? 4. How will I be graded?

5. What are the rules in this classroom? 6. Will the teacher treat me as a human being? 7. Who is the teacher as a person?

Top 6 Keys to Being a Successful Teacher 1. ** Sense of Humor ** 2. ** A Positive Attitutude ** 3. ** High Expectations ** 4. ** Consistency ** 5. ** Fairness ** 6. ** Flexibility ** Top 10 Worst Things a Teacher Can Do 1. ** Avoid smiling and being friendly with your students. ** I thought it would be great to post this statement somewhere in your classroom "You can change your mind!" Andrea H.
 * 2. **** Becoming friends with students while they are in class. **
 * 3. **** Stop your lessons and confront students for minor infractions in class **
 * 4. **** Humiliate students to try and get them to behave. **
 * 5. **** Yell. **
 * 6. **** Give your control over to the students. **
 * 7. **** Treat students differently based on personal likes and dislikes. **
 * 8. **** Create rules that are essentially unfair. **
 * 9. **** Gossip and complain about other teachers. **
 * 10. **** Be inconsistent with grading and/or accepting late work. **

Jodi Spoor says: Thanks to all of you who put great thought into the syllabi that you send home. I was excited to see so many with positive messages about what students can and will accomplish in your classes and the message you sent home that you are in it with them!

Also appreciate the time you're taking now to teach students how to take notes and study in your class! The Social Studies dept. has some great info on Cornell Notes.