i i 5 i i £ From Th Fr Year ahr Saville, di bya Thorpon, Cop © 2013 by Jn Wy Son TEACHER WORKSHEET 15.3 What Is Your Level of Withitness? Use the list of strategies that follows to assess your level of withitness. Rank yourself on a scale of 1 through 3 in regard to how successful you are in practicing each strategy, with 3 being as successful as possible. Any strategy for which you can’t rank yourself as a3 should be one that you continue to work to improve. 1.3 _ Don’t tum your back on your students for even a few seconds. 3B Be alert to signs and signals among your students. 73 trust your intuition. If something seems amiss among your students during class, it probably is. When conducting classroom conferences, have the student sit at a desk facing away from classmates so that you can see all of your students at the same time that you are conferring with your student. 5. Get to know your students as well as you can, as fast as you can, 6. Greet students at the door at the start of class to scan for potential problems. 7 a Develop your personal multitasking skills so that you can remain focused on your students during class. 9. Stay on your feet and monitor your students as they work. 10. When you issue a hall pass, make sure you know where the student is going and when he or she should return, Watch the clock. Arrange your class sc ‘tat you can see all of your students and be seen by all of them. If you need to talk privately with a student in the hallway, keep the door open and monitor your class at the same time. 13,_ __ Don’t allow groups of students to congregate around your desk if you are checking work in class. Go to them instead. B___ Pace lessons so that they flow in a businesslike manner. Students who have nothing to do are far more apt to misbehave than those who are engaged in learning 15.B As you work with one group of students, remain aware of what the rest of the class is doing. a ZB Be prepared so that you can focus on students instead of the lesson. 2 2 = a 3