teacher training scenarios for classroom management

7
How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response. Scenario #1 While conducting a quiz for an 11 th grade literature class, you notice that two students are talking to each other in Bulgarian. You tell them to be quiet during the test. When marking the tests, you find out that they have exactly the same score. How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response. Scenario #2 After handing out graded assignments, you ask two female students- Rali and Ana- to the front of the room. You tell both girls that they had exactly the same work, and you want an explanation. Both of them deny that they cheated. You inform them that they will each receive a poor mark in the gradebook for their

Upload: sophiakleinsasser

Post on 19-Nov-2015

49 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

DESCRIPTION

A selection of "real life" scenarios for groups of teachers to use as practice in pre-service training role-plays. There are no "right or wrong answers" but the exercise will give groups the chance to demonstrate how they might handle the situation in a classroom.

TRANSCRIPT

How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #1

While conducting a quiz for an 11th grade literature class, you notice that two students are talking to each other in Bulgarian. You tell them to be quiet during the test. When marking the tests, you find out that they have exactly the same score.

How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #2

After handing out graded assignments, you ask two female students- Rali and Ana- to the front of the room. You tell both girls that they had exactly the same work, and you want an explanation. Both of them deny that they cheated. You inform them that they will each receive a poor mark in the gradebook for their actions. Ana exclaims that she is being treated unfairly and that she will make sure the poor mark is changed because you are punishing her without a reason. How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #3

During an 8th grade lesson, you notice that one student who usually struggles to concentrate and complete his work is actually on-task and working hard to complete the assignment. Near the end of the lesson when you collect the students work, you offer him a congratulatory, Way to go! Great work today! He appears disturbed by the attention and rips his paper in half before storming out of the room.How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #4

You have given your class a worksheet with instructions for early finishers to avoid disturbing the rest of the class. You notice that two girls begin chatting with a friend who has not completed the assignment. You politely ask them to stop and allow their friend to finish, but they ignore you. Rather than repeating yourself you decide to give the two girls a stern look as a warning. One of them faces you and defiantly asks, What is the problem, Miss? Do you have something that you want to say?How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #5

In a class of 9th graders, mostly boys, you notice that one student is constantly disrupting the class by making noises or distracting others. In an effort to stop this behavior, you ask him to sit at the front of the room in an open seat next to another student. He protests, saying No, I dont want to sit with him. Hes weird. The other student looks embarrassed and the rest of the class laughs.How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #6

The assignment you gave today took less time for students to complete than expected and you have 15 minutes remaining. You do not have the next days assignment ready to go.How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #7

You notice that one of your brightest and most well-behaved students has stopped completing her homework assignments and is also failing her tests. You speak with her homeroom teacher and learn that the girls mother passed away recently. She is receiving counseling at school for her depression but continues to struggle in your class. How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #8George is an 8th grader he is a bright student, a leader of opinion and very popular among his classmates. However, in one of your lessons he is constantly interrupting you, making fun of what you are teaching and the whole class is laughing. This continues throughout the lesson, even during an independent practice assignment in small groups.How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #9In an 8th grade CLIL lesson on astronomy, one of your students clearly knows a lot about the topic and therefore makes constant remarks about what he already understands. He interrupts you several times as you present the key information and blurts out the answers to your questions before youve even had the chance to ask another student to answer.How would you respond to the following situation? Plan a skit to perform in front of the group that shows what happened and your response.Scenario #10In a 9th grade class, you are putting students into groups but Maria refuses to join a group you have assigned her to because of a boy with whom she is having a conflict at the moment.