| I can not tell you how many teachers have | | | | teaching. Do not waste that time. Teach |
| began their career teaching Middle School and | | | | the most important concepts of your lesson |
| quickly started looking for a new occupation. | | | | during this time.8. If you find that a |
| Believe me when I tell you that if you are | | | | student has trouble behaving... do not put |
| not prepared for the job they will eat you | | | | him or her in the front row. This enables |
| alive on the first week of school.If teaching | | | | every student to be entertained by them.9. |
| is your occupation, and you are teaching | | | | If you must reprimand a student do it in |
| Middle School, I hope you are ready to teach | | | | private. No one likes to be reprimanded in |
| teenagers and not beat yourself up about | | | | front of the whole class. I promise you |
| teaching Math, Science, English, Literature, | | | | it will cause you problems if you reprimand |
| or Social Studies. I get very up set when I | | | | in front of everyone.10. Do not sweat the |
| ask a fellow teacher what they are going to | | | | small stuff and quit looking for what the |
| teach and they tell me they are going to | | | | student is doing wrong. You are not a |
| teach Math. This brings me to the first of | | | | policeman. It seems like some teachers think |
| the ten tips I plan to share with you as you | | | | their only job is telling students what they |
| begin a new year teaching Middle School | | | | can not do.I could give you thousands of |
| Students.Ten tips:1. Never forget that you | | | | other tips and I will add to this list at a |
| are teaching teens. If someone asks you what | | | | later date. I would like to close with one |
| you teach, you tell them that you teach | | | | last thought that should make you think. |
| an awesome group of over achievers known as | | | | What do we do when little Johnny can not |
| teens.2. Do not try to be their friend. | | | | read? We teach him to read. What do we do |
| Many moms' and dads' have tried this. It did | | | | when he can not do math? We teach him how to |
| not work for them and it will not work | | | | do math. When he can not do science or |
| for you.3. Do not make over three class-room | | | | social studies.... we teach. So the big |
| rules.4. Find out what each of your students | | | | question is: WHAT DO WE DO WHEN HE DOES NOT |
| enjoys doing. Get to know what they are | | | | KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE? If you have told the |
| interested in. When you see them in the | | | | truth, you said that you discipline him. I |
| hall speak to them about things that they | | | | say we need to do what we do when he does not |
| enjoy.5. Seldom raise your voice. If they | | | | know how to read or write. When he does not |
| are out of control and you are yelling, then | | | | know how to behave we need to teach |
| we really have a problem. The louder | | | | him!Hopefully these ten tips will help you as |
| you get the louder they will get. Yelling is | | | | you prepare for the best year of teaching |
| irrational behavior.6. Start teaching | | | | teens that you have ever had. Keep in mind, |
| immediately. It is a good idea to have a | | | | you are a teacher. You are not a policeman |
| sponge on the board so that they will begin | | | | and you are not a friend. You must truly |
| work as soon as they come in to class. | | | | care about increasing their knowledge and |
| Many problems are a result of not knowing | | | | enabling them to be the person they are meant |
| what they are suppose to be doing.7. It is a | | | | to be.Bob Roach Father of one and middle |
| proven fact that students learn the most in | | | | school teacher of literally thousands over |
| the first ten minutes and last ten minutes of | | | | the past thirty years. |