Easy Ways to Get to Know Your Students

Put learning about and knowing your students first! 

In my story, “Another trailer! You Better be Kidding!” I realized, had I spent that first week really understanding each of my students, knowing who they were, what made them tick, what academic levels they were entering, I would not have found out the hard way. And by the hard way, I mean students acting out due to the fact that they couldn’t do something or did not have the coping mechanisms to support their emotions.  As teachers, in your first few weeks of school, it is imperative to build in time to talk one on one with students, infuse culture building and “getting to know each other” activities.  Check out the “Lessons Learned” portion of “Are you sure you want to teach?” post to see some of my favorite activities.  Also, be sure that you prioritize diagnostics in those first few weeks of school.  As you are making your first 15 day plans, be sure to know from your school what you use to assess your students’ learning levels, when you will assess the data and how to interpret the data so that when you are building content, you can ensure you have ways to make the content accessible to all of your students.  

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