Everything They Forgot to Teach You at the University About Teaching Students

For First Year Teachers or Teachers Who Want to Brush Up on Some New Ideas

So much of our university experience at the preservice level focused on our core subjects and lesson planning. Very little was done to help us understand how to manage the students. This is fine if you have a good cooperating teacher for your practicum who remembers to tell you all these things. Most of us did our student teaching during the second semester. The classroom management systems were set up, the seating was arranged, and all the organization was already completed. These are the things they did not tell us at preservice, along with how to modify behaviors that show up that we would like to target for change.