How can i get my students to cooperate?
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I feel for you.  You don't help your kids, you feel bad.  You help your kids the best you know, you lose money.  You do know that you can take these expenses off your taxes?  Is that $3.00 a week a kid or just $3.00 a week.  Do write up your project and your results and start searching for grants.  Target for exmple (target.com) gives a grant for early literacy, however who gets the grant is up to the neighborhood Target and if you are working on literacy, even though Jr. high is not early childhood, you might get lucky.  Talk to any businesses you can.  Maybe one might sponsor your program in excange for a small logo on your work.  (Our school directory is paid for by local advertisments)(Be sure to get permission on this one.)  Have some of your students speak to the school board.  If humanly possible, do not make your workbooks consumable.  Create a class set and bind it with those spiral thingys. (Your school or district may have one you can use for the cost of the spirals).  It's not too expense to provide paper for the kids if you stock up on the August sales! Talk to the managers of your office supply stores and Targets and Wal-marts.  Maybe they can help you sponsor your program.\nNever give up on the kids.  There's always a way.\nGood luck!
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Keep them occupied..drawing or coloring is good,make believe is another good one;like pretending they are authors and have them write stories about certain things they like;board games are okay long as they are easy and fast playing;Have them play school with each other;Play card games;if all else fails put kid videos on!
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First of all, no don't do that. this is coming from a 15 year old, and I might not know much about adults but I know about kids and teenagers. If you write them up, they will hate you (trust me) and might be worse next time.\n\nSecond of all, have you tried explaining to them that if they don't pay attention in school they won't learn new things and will get bad grades. tell them, that it's for their own good. Don't split them up and literally tell them that you're not going to split them up. Then tell them that they are being disruptive to the other classmates who are actually trying to pay attention. Then you could talk to them after class if they still don't get it and be very nice to them. I've had many of my opinions changed about a lot of teachers who I thought were mean, but in the end they turned out to be very nice.\n\nTeaching is not supposed to be about who gets in trouble for doing this or that, teaching is about not giving up on your students because you know they can succeed.
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Get the whole class to gang up on the losers who are talking. It worked in my class. Everyone was so mad at these two guys who that they were all cool and never shut up. so all 30 of us just turned to them in class one day and geve them nasty looks and yelled..(we really yelled) for them to shut up. They found out that they were not that cool and finaly shut up the rest of the year. \nGet numbers on your side and let them know that the class is not backing them up in talking.
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Usually in Asia, the students are a shy group and the teacher has no choice but to be the one doing all the talking in the class. But one good way to get them to open up and participate is play games. There are a lot of websites for these, and you do a check using www.google.com.\n\nOnce they feel comfortable talking (usually it's a few who will be the 'leader' type), get them into project work by groups and then doing presentation by each group on the project. G'luck!
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Cover the Cooperative Learning issue and first group your students in groups of 3-5. Give each child in the group a job.  For example, The Reporter, The Materials Manager, Maintenance (clean up :) ), Project Manager...you get the idea.  I am sure you have other objectives other than Observing the parts of a plant...What exactly do you want them to learn????????  5 year olds can observe the parts of the plants...so you can go in depth....\nMaybe you have one group predicting the importance of Leaves or comparing different leaves on different plants...deciduous, coniferous...if so have them in a group...with a time span...look for samples of leaves...have the students identify what type of tree or plant, have them make leaf rubbings and describe the leaf - you get the point!  You can do the same by have a group identify the stem and the importance of a stem by putting a white carnation or celery stick in colored water.  Have the predict what will happen through writing and a drawing and the next day observe and identify the conclusion!  There are many ideas out there...those are a few to get you started!\nAnyways after having each group become "experts" in their area of research, have them present their information. You can go beyond Cooperative Learning and touch on Multiple Intelligence and Various Learning Modes!  Have each group chose a way to present the info: They can make a Big Book, Write an Essay, Act out an Infomercial, Draw a picture and present the info on Posterboard, make a mobile...etc!  Have fun with it...You can get all sorts of grades out of it as well!!!
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The best and most overlooked way to improve classroom education of any kind is to introduce the use of boardgames. I have taught for over ten years all over the world, and only when I use boardgames do students voluntarily insist on extending their classes for two, three, even four hours. Not only that but they then show the most rapid improvement. \nCheck out the following websites for some useful background info.\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-1.html...\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-2.html...\n\nhttp://subscriptions.fasfind.com/wwwtool...\n\nhttp://www.gama.org/uploads/ns/xx/nsxx7l...\n\nGive it a try and you will be amazed. At least you will be helping to break the monopoly that the big textbook publishers have over the education industry.
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maybe get everyone in the class to chip in and throw him/her a suprise party. i did that for one of my teachers before w/ a couple of friend and she was realli moved. she was touched that we organized everything and had everyone participate.
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Are you sitting back and waiting to be included?  Try participating more, be a little more vocal and participate their conversations.  Ask them what classes they are taking and how they like those teachers.  Get to know them and let them get to know you.
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All of the answers that you have been given so far are good!!  I am an elementary teacher and one thing that I would ask is that you teach your child how to follow directions. You would be suprised how many children have a hard time listening and following simple directions.
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My teacher had a great way of doing this. Tell your students to collect various household items and a few bags. Make sure each kid picks out two specific objects. When everyone returns, teach union and intersect using the kids' "sets".
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Food. Offer breakfast or something to have students meet their mentor over breakfast. Then have them pair up and do a scavenger hunt around the school (the first team to find all of the locations wins something). Make it a competetion and offer food...that always seems to get my students into it.
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the trick is i think to really comunicate with all your students.\nyou have the odds in your favour, as teenagers love competition and they will do anything to stay on top of the things they find "cool". So, all you have to do is to make math a "cool" thing in the school you are teaching.\nthis can be accomplished either by getting a already popular student to be good at math, or by making several "middle" accepted students love math and brag about this all the time. Teenagers only care abuot popularity, and methods like making the lessons more nice and teaching measures that are good moves with younger children will not work.\nOr, you could catch a popular "football star" student that needs a good grade in math to keep playing on the school team or something like that... Now all yo uhave to do is to make that person like math. Give him free private sessions yourself or asign a student that you consider he might like.  If you get him not only to pass math but to have a real interest in math from then on you have accomplished your purpose. All others will follow the popular guy, so everyone will try and learn more and more math.\ni realize this is a little out there, and that it can not be considered a real teaching strategy, but belive me it works, it really does. Look at it this way: you are not playing with their minds as it seems, you are just doing what you can to give them a better chance in life...
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Have a good attitude. Most teachers have great ideas that cannot fly without students being willing to go on the journey.  Nobody can have fun if they are constantly being corrected or yelled at nor can a teacher be fun if they are always weary of behavior.
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I don't think there is one best method. Here are a few suggestions:\n\n* Try quiet methods such as giving noisy students eye contact or holding up your hands. \n\n* Do your best to avoid blowing up in front of the class, even if you feel like it.\n\n* Realize that you can't always control them all the time. Give them some degree of freedom, while not letting them take over.\n\n* Read a book such as FIRES IN THE BATHROOM by Kathleen Cushman or TOOLS FOR TEACHING by Fred Jones. Those might give you some more ideas. \n\n* Ask your colleagues what they do. There might be a technique that works perfectly.
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read a book called "teaching with love and logic" or something like that...it's a good book that my mom read (she's a teacher). it teaches you how to teach a class, or student, that is disobedient and noisy.
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Make the teacher a scrapbook of all of you.  You could each put in special letters of why you think he/she is really special.  This way the only things you are paying for is a scrapbook, note paper and film.  You could even let some of the other people he/she has taught write notes.  This is something that he/she can carry with them forever.  It will also remind that that he/she are doing a great job.   You can even ask some of the other teachers if they would like to put in something.