Provide class time for aesthetic reading and encourage it inside and outside the school.
do
Draw negative attention to student's culture or langugae.
don't
Promote wide reading and discuss differences(e.g., text structure, purpose, organization) between aesthetic (live through the text) and efferent (carries information from text) reading.
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Have unannounced quizzes.
don't
"Keep score."
don't
Lack resources
don't
Celebrate students' diversity in culture, language, reading, family, apparel, etc. Adolescents need to be recognized as individuals.
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Set high expectations and provide scaffolds to help students meet their goals.
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Use assessments that do not inform instruction.
don't
Use sarcasm.
don't
Make sure everyone knows each other in your classroom by names. This is particularly difficult but absolutely essential in the secondary classroom.
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Create opportunities for students to participate in large- and small-group discussions, and choose with whom, and how, they would like to share their thoughts and reflections.
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Limit instruction to one learning style.
don't
Lack cooperative learning practices.
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Grade everything.
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Give Unforgiving deadlines.
don't
Create a classroom that encourages risk.
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