Troy+Martinez-TOA+Resources

This is a place to find new resources for use with teachers for lesson planning, classroom managment and teaching content stratgies as well as examples of projects and activities.

According to Doug Lemov in his book __Teach Like a Champion__ there are five principles that effective teachers develop in their classroom culture. They are Discipline, Management, Control, Influence and Engagement. __Teach Like a Champion__ stresses that Discipline is not what most teachers think of as consequences and rewards that lead to [|appropriate student]classroom behavior. Instead it is the teaching of students [|procedures] in out classrooms that led to learning and on-task behavior. For example, teaching students to use sentence frames to answer questions in complete sentences or the proper way to enter the classroom. Management is the process of reinforcing behavior by consequences and rewards. Here the key point is you are managing the consequences of appropriate or inappropriate behavior by your students.

Following is a PowerPoint presentation that was used at the 2006 CUE conference to explain a cross-curriculuar assignment that was presented at the Student Showcase. The students were to create a drama in which they can to also illustrate a physics element in it.