Summer Classroom Management PD

Check out pics from our Summer Classroom Management Workshops created by Margaret Dunlap, director of Oakland Unified's Classroom Management Program.

Math Tricks

A kindergarten teacher sent this to me. I wish I knew these tricks in 5th grade! Check out some Math Tricks!
http://minionlinecourses.com/designslinks/math.htm

August 8, 2009: Back to School Event at Arroyo Viejo Park in Oakland

Arroyo Viejo Park in Oakland is collaborating with the Oakland Mayor's Office, in hosting a Back to School event for the community. The community serviced by the Arroyo Viejo Recreation Center has a high truancy rate, especially amongst elementary school students. In an attempt to get students excited with anticipation about returning to school, this collaborative effort will take place this Saturday August 8, 2009. The day includes speakers, jumpers, face painting, art, food, and backpacks (600 - 800).

Arroyo Viejo Park
7701 Krause Avenue
Oakland, CA

Teacher Appreciation Day at Office Max

http://www.officemax.com/home/custom.jsp?id=m3610272
Get a free reusable shopping bag and a 15% discount on everything that you can fit inside.

Low-Cost Dental Services

Although as teachers in Oakland Unified School District, we have great health care/benefits, many of our students and their families do not. Have you ever tried to pay attention when you have a toothache???

Diablo Valley College has low cost, high quality dental cleanings.
Call 925-685-1230 Ext. 2534

Clinic Services Include:
Teeth Cleanings for Adults--$25
Teeth Cleanings for Children--$10
Deep Root Cleanings--$25-$55*
X-rays--$5-$25
Whitening (for those who qualify)--$99
Sealants--$5 per tooth
Fluoride Treatments *FREE w/ cleaning

Call today to Schedule an Oral Exam

*Patients must sit for multiple 3-hour sessions in the clinic classroom

Do you have a high school student that needs a job?

There is a summer employment opportunity for teens at MoAD but they need to commit year-round. Go to www.moadsf.org and click on jobs@moad at the bottom of the homepage. It's the teen position. Apps deadline extended to June 22 @5PM. Must be 16.

Classroom Management Tips for High School

• Students who understand what you are saying tend to behave better. Make yourself comprehensible. Slow down. A lot. It may seem easy to you but that's because you already know the material. If you convince your kids that you care that they understand, that it's their job to show when they do and don't understand, you'll win over a bunch of students.
• Students behave better if they have roles: ask your students to help by slowing you down when you go to fast, answering frequent checks for meaning.
• Students who believe you are sincerely interested in them will behave better. Talk to them like actual people, especially before/between classes. One, it's a nice thing to do. Two, you can build their lives into examples. One way many teachers accomplish this is by having kids fill out interest surveys at the beginning of the year: our job is then of course to read them and put that knowledge to use, relationship building.
• If you put your students and their learning ahead of an imposed curriculum, they will tend to behave better. If you are obeying a curriculum, make sure you always tie it to the kids' perceived needs somehow. If you are slogging through a text-book chapter by chapter, please reconsider.
• Keep your "rules" simple, and don't set up too many pre-established consequences. Every misbehavior is its own weird animal and deserves its own response. Your response doesn't have to be immediate, and the remedy shouldn't tax your resources or energy. Put the responsibility for the rectification of any misbehavior on the student. If a kid caused the trouble, the kid should fix it, on his/her own time. (Straight out of Fay and Funk's "Teaching With Love and Logic")