Summary of Major Concepts Covered by Harry K. Wong:
1. the three characteristics of an effective teacher are: 1) has good classroom management skills, 2) teaches for mastery, and 3) has positive expectations for student success.
2. Your expectations of your students will greatly influence their achievement in your class and in their lives.
3. Treat students as though they already are what they can be, and you help them to be capable of becoming what they will be.
4. Call (or write) each home before school begins and again within two weeks.
5. What you do on the first day of school will determine your success for the rest of the year.
6. Have the room ready for instruction, and make it invitational.
7. Stand at the door and greet the students.
8. Give each student a seating assignment and a seating chart.
9. There must be an assignment posted, and in a consistent location, when the students enter the room.
10. Start each class with an assignment-immediately. Do not take roll when class begins.
11. Position yourself in the room near the students: problems are proportional to distance.
12. Credibility: Display your diploma and credentials with pride.
13. Dress in a professional manner to model success and expect achievement.
14. The three most important things that must be taught the first week of school are discipline, procedures and routines.
15. Discipline: set rules, consequences and rewards immediately.
16. State your procedures and rehearse them until they become routines.
17. The family, as a support group, is the guardian and disseminator of culture. The school and the church help the family to disseminate culture.
18. Learning is most effective when it takes place in a supportive community of learners.
19. The greater the time students work together and the greater the responsibility students take for their work, the greater the learning.
20. Cooperate with each other, compete only against yourself.
21. Cooperative learning will prepare students for the competitive, global world economy.
22. Academic Learning Time: the greater the time students spend working successfully on a task, the greater the student's achievement.
23. The greater the structure of a lesson and the more precise the directions on task procedures, the lower the error rate and the higher the achievement rate.
24. To increase assignment completion, state your assignments as a set of objectives.
25. Use criterion referenced tests to evaluate the performance of students.
26. The more frequent the tests, the higher the achievement.
27. Grade on percentage attained, not on the curve.
28. Mastery learning plus tutorial instruction results in higher achievement than students taught in a conventional manner.
29. If a student masters a criterion, give the student enrichment work. If the student does not master a criterion, give the student remediation and corrective help.
30. The shorter the assignment, the higher the achievement rate.
31. Intersperse questions throughout a lesson. Ask a question after 10 sentences rather than after 50 sentences and you increase the retention rate by 40 percent.
32. Wait time: wait five or more seconds after asking a question.
33. reading: use short lines and paragraphs.
34. Determine the learning style of your students.
35. Students score higher on a test measuring attitude towards school and attitude towards a subject when they learn from an activity-question approach.
36. Most teachers teach as they were taught in college, a non-validated model of teaching.
37. Learn to make choices to enhance your life. Stop deciding what to do because others are doing it.
38. When you see in a given situation what everyone else sees, you become so much a part of that situation that you may become a victim of that situation.
39. 80/20 Principle: 80 percent of teachers are complainers of survivors; 20 percent of the teachers are happy and successful. That 20 percent create and strive for their own rewards.
40. Workers are concerned with time and money. Leaders are concerned with enhancement and cooperation.
41. The four stages of teaching; fantasy, survival, mastery, and impact.
42. There is no nobility in being better than someone else. The only nobility is in being better than you were the day before.
43. Self-esteem results from school achievement. You cannot give someone a better self-esteem. The role of a teacher is to engineer student success.
44. Teachers can only give what and who they are themselves.
45. You may be the only stable adult your students will ever see in their lifetime. You may be their only hope and dream for a brighter tomorrow.
46. Each person has unlimited potential. Humans are the only species able to improve the quality of their lives.
47. You have your achievements or you have your excuses.
48. You are the only person o the face of the earth who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.
49. The most important factor to a professional is the quality of the work and the commitment to the craft.
50. A professional is someone who does not need supervision and regulation to 1) have a continuing growth plan to achieve competence and 2) continually strive to raise the level of each new group of students.
51. I believe that every teacher can be effective.
52. Inside every great teacher there is an even better one waiting to come out.
53. Thouse who dare to teach must never cease to learn.
54. The teacher enhances the life and spirit of people.
55. It is the teacher who makes the difference in what happens in the classroom.
56. By far the most important factor to school learning is the ability of the teacher. The more capable the teacher, the more successful the student.
57. Stop asking, "what am I supposed to do?" Start asking, "What must I know that will help me accomplish what I need to do?"
58. There is an existing body of knowledge about teaching that must be known by the teacher. Power comes to those with the knowledge.
59. Since there is no one best way to teach effectively, the teacher must be a decision maker able to translate the body of knowledge about teaching into increased student learning.
60. There is no accomplishment without risk.
61. LOVE.
This is a handout that was given to me today. The last one I can handle..it is number 5 that makes me a little scared. Anyway I love his advice to new teachers and I love that he believes that education is the best and most important job there is. I want to keep this list close to me.
Lots to do and lots to think about as orientation goes on. This weekend I want to write out my procedures, establish what my consequences are going to be, and decide on my rules for the class. Oh, and plan the first day of school. I am going to stop by school tomorrow to pick up my assignment book and to check if our class lists and schedules are available yet! All I ask is that I have less than 40 students.
Count down until the first day: 10!
Love,
Miss Bee
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