The assignment this week was a qualitative interview with a teacher of diverse background. We lack a diversity of teachers on our campus. Which led me to seek out a teacher who had experience with diverse students. The teacher who took over my AP Biology classes when I left the classroom three years ago came to us from an overseas teaching assignment with a Department of Defense school in Dubai. Before that she taught in Shanghai. I leaned on her experience with culturally diverse students to gain some insight on classroom management in rigorous instruction. She is known for holding extremely high expectations for her students while running a highly engaged classroom. I was glad to have time to catch up with her and talk about strategies that I could share with our new teachers.
She relies heavily on constant movement within and interaction with students to help them stay on task and on the right track. She shared some great tips that will really help our new teachers to improve classroom management. This is an area of focus for our new teachers. As leaders and mentors in the new teacher induction program, we are both helping to support the ever growing list of new teachers at our school. Here are some of the key ideas that she shared:
Reading this week focused on student engagement. The videos were about critiquing resources and engagement and rigor.
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