Curriculum, Instruction, Classroom Management, and Discipline

by Marvin Marshall

Gain a clear understanding of the differences in order to pinpoint the cause of a problem.
 

Curriculum

Curriculum refers to what is to be taught. Sources include state and local boards of education, professional associations, textbooks, teacher preferences, and increasing influence from the federal government.
Instruction

A) What the teacher does

 
It is the teacher's responsibility to make the curriculum interesting, relevant, meaningful, and/or even fun. Activities that create interest, challenge, inspire creativity or are personal are excellent approaches. A good starting point is for the teacher to ask, "Why am I teaching this?" and then share the reasons with students.

Every lesson should have planned time for reflection in order to  enhance understanding, reinforcement, and retention.
B) What students do

 
Learning that is retained requires participation. Consider the following regarding retention: We remember:

10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we say
90% of what we say and do

Classroom Management

Classroom management deals with how things are done.
It has to do with procedures, routines, and structure.
It is enhanced when procedures are:

1. Explained to students,
2. Modeled for students,
3. Practiced by students, and periodically (when necessary)
4. Reinforced by practicing again.
When procedures are learned, routines are established.
Routines give structure to instruction.

Classroom management is the teacher's responsibility.
Discipline

Discipline is the student's responsibility.
Discipline deals with how people behave.
It is about impulse management and self-control.

So, if you have an unsuccessful lesson, ask yourself,

(1) Was it the curriculum? e.g., I just didn't make it appealing,
or
(2) Was it instruction? e.g., I had a wonderful lesson planned, but I did all the work; the students were not engaged enough,
or
(3) Was it classroom management? e.g., I had a wonderful lesson, but it took 10 minutes to get everything organized,
or
(4) Was it a discipline problem? e.g., I prompted the students' curiosity, taught a good lesson with meaningful student activities, had everything organized, but Jason still interrupted the lesson.

Asking yourself these questions is a significant step toward increasing your effectiveness.

 

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Your Family Tree

Your closest relatives are your parents: your mother and father; and your siblings (brothers or sisters). If your mother or father is not an only child, you also have aunts and / or uncles. An aunt is the sister of your mother or father, while an uncle is the brother of your mother or father. Your female child is called your daughter, and your male child is your son.
If your aunts or uncles have children, they are your first cousins. (In English, the word cousin is used, whether the cousin is female or male.) Your female cousin is your mother (or father's) niece, while a male cousin is the nephew of your mother and father.

In-laws

When you marry, your husband (or wife's) family become your in-laws. The mother of your spouse (husband or wife) is your mother-in-law and his or her father becomes your father-in-law. The term in-law is also used to describe your relationship with the spouses of your siblings. So the husband of your sister becomes your brother-in-law, while the sister of your husband becomes your sister-in-law. If you are a woman, you become the daughter-in-law of your husband's parents, and if you are a man, you become the son-in-law of your wife's parents. The same term in-law is used for all generations. The husband of your aunt is still your mother's brother-in-law, for example.

Grandparents / grandchildren

The parents of your parents are your grandparents – grandmother and grandfather. You are their grandchildren– either a granddaughter or a grandson. If your grandparent has a sister, she is your great-aunt. If your grandparent has a brother, he is your great-uncle. (And you are either his or her great-niece or great-nephew.)
The mother of your grandmother or grandfather is your great-grandmother. The father is your great-grandfather. If you go back another generation, the grandmother of your grandmother / grandfather is your great-great-grandmother. The grandfather of your grandparent becomes your great-great-grandfather.

Second families

If your mother or father remarries, you can acquire a new family and set of relatives. For example, if your father marries a second wife, she becomes your step-mother. Any children she already has become your step-sisters or step-brothers.
If your mother or father remarries and has children, they become your half-brothers or half-sisters.
You might also hear people talking about their biological brother / sister etc, to mean a brother who is related by blood, rather than by marriage.


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Woman Sleeps With 50 Men From Facebook "I Need Sex" Group

Those with insatiable sexual appetites used to have to go to underground swingers clubs, key parties, or put ads in the newspaper, but then the Internet happened and the super-randy started to hook up 24/7, first via instant messaging programs, then via dating/sex sites and Craigslist. Now, of course, they have Facebook and MySpace Technically, these sites are just for making friends, not for quick hook-ups, and the rules strictly forbid nudity and sexual solicitation, but every now and then, the ultra-horny go a little 'Craigslist personals' on Facebook's ass.

Take Laura Michaels of Bristol, England, who, according to the UK's Sun newspaper, created a Facebook group called "I Need Sex." Within 10 minutes, 35 men had joined the group. After an hour, 100 men had joined. She invited the men to contact her and met up in person with those she liked. In the end, Michaels slept with 50 men in total from the Facebook group, which, for those of you who are slow, is literally half of the group.

"I Need Sex" has since been taken down, but Laura has no regrets. She says that she was satisfying her own desires, despite what other people may think of her. All we can say is "kudos".

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