Friday, August 21, 2015

Maintaining discipline - Getting to know your class

It will help teachers to interact better with their classes and maintain discipline if they know the names of their students. I suggest that you make the learners sit in the same place every lesson and have a layout map of the class. This is what I am making my student teachers create in their computer literacy classes when they are meant to learn Word tables.
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For CAT or computer literacy people the key features here are borders, column width, vertical and horizontal alignment in cells.


It will help more by inserting images of each of the learners.

For CAT or computer literacy people the key features are borders, column width, vertical and horizontal alignment in cells and maybe merge cells. The images are all cropped to display just the face, the same size, inserted as files, formatted in line with text, aligned vertically and horizontally in the cells. The pictures can be taken with whatever means or copied from a social networking site, but transferred to the computer and saved as a file.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a good idea. Hoping all schools will do this too.

Dr Pam Miller said...

One of my most successful lessons. The students enjoyed it because they were working with THEIR pictures. Learned the difference between cropping and making pictures smaller.

Dr Pam Miller said...

Such an interesting feature has emerged. Some students cannot see in flat paper layout the layout of the physical classroom. I wonder if they can read graphs. I wonder if they can read a map. It must be taught!