Take 5 in the classroom?
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This is from Harry Wongs "The First Days of School". He actually Calls it "Give Me Five". I recommend this book!\n\nHeres the order he gives (pg. 184)\n1. Eyes on Speaker.\n2. Quiet\n3. Be still\n4. Hands Free\n5. Listen\n\nThe students go through the steps in their heads, and within 5 seconds you should have their attention.
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Give Me Five\nDiscourage inattention by teaching students the "Give Me Five" technique. Whenever you say, "Give Me Five," students go through the following five steps:\n\n   1. Eyes on speaker\n   2. Quiet\n   3. Be still\n   4. Hands free\n   5. Listen
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Group work, hands down.  Students learn more from each other than they learn from lecture.  Give assignments to groups (even just simple worksheets) and have them turn ONE in for the whole group.  Never let the groups grow beyond 5 or 6 members and assign the members randomly to their groups.  You'd be amazed how much they learn from each other and how much they enjoy and retain the material
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Go to class one day with a big duffel/sports bag. Put anything in the bag - old newspapers, soft toys, you name it. Right at the top of the bag, put something that you think might interest your students - depending on their age and sex it might be a newly released CD, or a favorite sports magazine, or the latest in hand held PS2's. Make sure the bag is zipped closed. As you enter the classroom put the bag somewhere very obvious (but within easy reach of yourself). \nStart your class in the normal way, and somewhere within the first 5 minutes mention to them that you have a bag of goodies you want to use for today's class. But you first have to deal with some grammar/vocab/etc. Handle the class like you normally would. Maybe remind them that you have to finish the work to get to the bag with stuff. Make sure your face gets all excited when you mention the bag - they might start to wonder what is in the bag. Try to ignore the rowdy ones and concentrate on the well behaved ones. If the class gets very rowdy, just touch the bag, or maybe just take a sideways glance at it. Make sure your kids see this. \nNow, if the class didn't behave like you would have wanted them to behave, end the class (when time is up) with a sentence like, "Oh, I'm so sorry we didn't have time to look at what's in the bag. Act like they're not in class with you, open the bag, take out the noce goody at the top (zip up again and don't let them see what's at the bottom of the bag), and start paging through the magazine/take out your diskman and listen to the CD (making sure they see the cover)/ or do whatever you want to  with the goodie. \nDON'T say anything to them after that. Just shrug your shoulders if they have any comments.\nNow, say they were good, you could use that article in your class just before time's up. \nFor the next lesson they have with you, again bring your bag. This time make sure you have something they are really keen about, and that you have a plan on how to incorporate it in your classroom. Follow the same procedure as the first lesson. (If you used a CD the first time, maybe come to class listening to it over your diskman, or play it on the classroom CD player until they start to arrive for class.) Again, if they're not good - no bag. \nKeep this up for at least 4/5 lessons. Sometime during these 4/5 lessons, tell them that they didn't have time to work with the bag's contents, so that means they will have to do extra homework - the reason for this is that the contents of the bag would have helped them to understand something better/practice a grammar concept/practice some vocabs. But because they didn't get to the bag, they have to do extra homework to make up for the lack of practice.\nTry it. I used it on a few classes at different schools, with different age groups, and in all instances, it worked by the 3rd lesson. \nTo keep them on their toes afterwards, why don't you plan for some type of fun activity once every 4/5 lessons. Maybe help them to learn their favorite song's words. Let them bring their own CD's to class and have a listen to the CD day - be sure to have them rate each other's CD's and say why they like it/don't like it (all in good English, of course). \nTry not to involve the director or another teacher, if possible. This will show them that you can't handle them and they will feel totally in control Even if some are punished by the director, they will become martyrs, and you will be able to get less out of them. Always try to handle the problems without losing your cool. They like seeing teachers squirm - it is a natural drug for them! \nGood luck, and if you try it, let me know how it worked.
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Give them small pieces of text so that they may follow along as you read to them.  Ultimately, you will want them to take turns reading aloud.  I know this has gone "out of fashion" in the classroom, but it really works.  You will be modeling tone, cadence, pronunciation, etc.  I am currently teaching a literacy unit in a tenth grade classroom.  We do this every day.  This is what they were missing......
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Sure, it just depends on how organized you are.  I don't reccommend taking 4 at once though, I would take them one at a time.  That way, if life does throw something at you and you can't finish the course, you're only doing that with one course, and not 4.
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Ask your teaching assistant about that
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We could change the second + to 4 by putting a vertical small line\n\n5 + 5 + 5 = 550\n5 + 5 4 5 = 550
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For area, make the lesson interactive.  Create a row out of four of your students.  Next, create four more rows for a total of five rows.  Ask the remaining students, "If there are five rows of students, and four students in each row, how many students are there?"  Make them count out loud if necessary or make the children in the rows count from one to 20, thus making your point that there are 20 students total....
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ask the teAcher what it would have taken to get 100.
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Possibly 3-5, depending the circumstances.
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having more 1 on 1 with the instructor to learn the material
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practice  maybe a class
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I guess '4'. Do I get an A?
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Ask one of the teacher's for help.
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we just had this lesson... its:\n\n1)Primary arts\n2)Greek Theories\n3)Alchemy\n4)Phlogiston\n5)Modern Chemistry
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What the **** are you talking about?\n\nAre you five or do you just sleep during English class?