AboutTracy Chatters Expertise I can answer questions related to classroom discipline for middle and high school, student motivation, rewards plans, creating an exciting classroom environment and planning field trips to enhance curriculum.
Experience I am a CA credentialed secondary teacher with 5 years classroom experience. I have designed my own social studies curriculum to include exciting hands-on activities, role-playing and other events that make kids want to learn. I have taken more than 100 students on exciting educational field trips including Washington DC, Ashland OR, and all over California. I currently train new teachers how to create a positive classroom environment.
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Education/Credentials CA Secondary Authorization for Social Studies, Spanish and Russian
Expert: Tracy Chatters Date: 6/20/2007 Subject: Summer School Help
Question I was wondering if you could help. My question is rather simple. I've been everywhere on the net and I can't find help for teaching summer school to seniors who have failed. I am a new teacher and I have no idea how to set up the class. Do you know where I could find the information I need?
Answer First off, what subject are you teaching? I don't know of any sites that are specifically targeted to summer school classes. Summer school is hard, as I'm sure you know, because the class is so long. I recently helped an English teacher schedule her class as below:
8:45-9:30- Silent reading, free reading- any text but must be a book, magazine or newspaper.
9:30-9:45- Summarize your silent reading in a journal
9:45-10:15- Grammar and vocabulary review
10:15-11:30- Group work on long-term project
11:30-12:15- Individual work, literature review and questions etc.
Sometimes the group work will be Socratic seminar style or book debate. Sometimes it'll be a movie covering the literature being read.
Keep your class fast moving, relevant and interesting. I think that by starting the day off with something the students care about and has personal interest, you'll have better luck covering the rest of the information. If you need specific suggestions, please let me know your subject area and I'll help you lay it out.
