And we all have a responsibility to deal with «known emergencies,» such as a last - minute coverage for an absent colleague or
an urgent student discipline meeting.
Not exact matches
In my experience at an urban no - excuses school, the rigid
discipline and structures we put in place allowed us to focus on the
urgent academic intervention that our
students there desperately needed.
When we commit to designing and developing an
urgent, encouraging, self - motivating, and
disciplined environment in our classrooms, we provide
students (and ourselves) with learning experiences that are satisfying and lasting.
For example, if classroom routines, procedures, responses, and pedagogical strategies are established as habits through sustained and deliberate practice, teachers might be better able to attend to the
urgent discipline problem building in the back row, implement a complex new lesson format, or respond to a
student's question in order to provoke
students» higher - order thinking.
If we establish an
urgent, yet
disciplined pace, one to propel us to act and meet self - imposed deadlines for results, we can successfully cultivate a staff mindset that doesn't allow us, as educators, to make excuses to our
students, their families, or the community about what our
students can accomplish.