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It is very common to have rebellious students bring their domestic problems toschool. It shows in their behaviour and attitude toward schoolwork and rules.Sometimes there are parents who do not bother or do not know what else to do

with their children and expect the school to be their babysitter. It can be quitefrustrating dealing with these problems.

Responsibilities:

• Teaching and adminstration within the school/department scope

• Contribute to the development, planning and implementation of high qualitycurriculum

• Assist in the development of learning materials, schemes of work as well asmonitoring students progress, achievement and attendance

• Maintaining professional relationships with teachers and students

• Attending all departmental and staff meeting

• Any other duties assigned from time to time

CHALLENGE: Students With Bad Behavior  That first year, she was overwhelmed by the magnitude of her responsibility. She had 20

children in her class, and she felt solely accountable for the welfare, the academic

progress, and the social development of each one of them. “At Baby Gap, I was

responsible for the denim,” she says.

One of her students had a difficult home life and acted out in class. She would stand on

the table, bark at the students and staff, lash out violently, and roll back and forth on the

floor, bumping into the other kids. She bit one of the teaching assistants and hit the otherstudents. Ms. Adams says she was so stunned by the student’s behavior she didn’t know

what to do or how to help her. She had studied behavior modification plans in college, but

this child’s behavior was so severe that the measures she learned about did not seem to

apply. She wound up holding the student’s hand practically the whole day to keep her

calm and restrain her from harming the other students. The student respected Ms. Adams

and never became violent with her.

How to Handle Bad Behavior Every student is unique and thus every behavior problem requires a unique approach. It’s

hard to say that a teaching training program would have prepared this teacher for abarking student, so her quick and calm thinking did the trick.

CHALLENGE: Difficult Parentsfrom Michael Duncan, third grade teacher, California

In his first year, a student was transferred into his class because the student’s mother did

not like the previous two teachers he was assigned to that year. The student’s mother

would leave 20-minute phone messages on his voice mail every day; listening to them

would consume his entire free period. In addition to the barrage of phone messages, she

frequently requested conferences or appeared without an appointment. He would walk

into his classroom to find her sitting there waiting for him.

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How to Work With ParentsParents can be the best resource to improve student behavior and learning. But just like

students, all parents are unique. Figuring how to get the most out of parents can be a

trial and error process. However, there are approaches that yield better results faster.

 TheApple has put together our most popular resources for working with parents. Knowing

what parents are thinking and expecting can help teachers be prepared and successful.

CHALLENGE: Lack of TimeAsk any teacher and they’ll be happy to tell you the long list of things they don’t have

enough in the school day to accomplish. Classes are short, classes are large, andteachers get frustrated as they try to fit in important lessons and activities in each period.

Aside from tasks outside of teaching, like planning, collaborative work, making copies and

returning parent phone calls, many teachers will tell you that their schedules sometimes

don’t allow time to squeeze in going to the bathroom!

“If you are a new teacher, you have to understand creating all your lesson plans, class

materials, learning activities, and correlate them back to state standards, and they do

this for every course prep they have! It is easy to see why so many teachers “drop out”

within the first two years of teaching.” Don Keeler, Chief Technology of Lumen Software

goes on to say, “NCLB is a good initiative. We needed, and still need accountability in

education, no question. However the added time requirements (decrease in instruction

time caused by this) created from this are an obstacle.”

CHALLENGE: Emotional StressSamantha Parker, high school teacher, New Jersey 

She served as an advisor to a student club in which students discuss and address social

issues. At one meeting, students were talking about self-esteem issues, and a few of the

students disclosed that they engaged in cutting—they intentionally inflicted cuts on

themselves to relieve their emotional pain and frustrations. Suddenly overcome with a

deep sense of responsibility for these students, she faced an internal conflict about what

she should do with the information she had just learned about them. She did not want to

cross the line between professionalism and friendship, nor did she want to betray her

students’ trust by calling their parents. But she felt compelled to protect them in some

way. “I can’t forget the feeling I had, not knowing whether these students were safe that

night,” she says.

Dealing With Stress

 Teachers deal not just with career stress, but the duress of their students, too. Teachers

have a huge support system in place to deal with situations like the one above, so be

sure to know what your legal obligations are to protect your students.

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Apakah nasihat, peganggan tuan yang boleh diberi untuk anak-anak mudapelajari?

Perseverance is the key to success 

After thousands of efforts to make the electric light bulb, Thomas Edison said, “ I haven’t 

failed, I’ve identified 10,000 ways that it doesn’t work .” Mario Lemieux, Helen Keller,

Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie and an endless list of other great achievers found that

success inevitably arrives for everyone who perseveres.

Acquiring a desired job or promotion, or succeeding at business may present difficulties.But this is part of the learning process. Ultimately, people who persevere become

successful. They learn from mistakes.

What would be your advice for those who are aspiring to enterthis field of work?

 You are going to deal with lives, not just a lesson or a classroom. You need a lotof patience and a caring heart because your students respond differently. Youmay be teaching the best, the worst or a mixed class, so your expectation has tobe real.

Sincerity is very important because children can read you well. It’s also importantto de-stress after a tough day at school. It is not unusual to bring home booksand papers for marking. But you should always keep in mind that whatever youdo, you are doing it for the students’ sake.

 There must always be a line drawn between a teacher and student – don’t givethem a chance to “step on your head”. Don’t feel discouraged if you lose yourcool or wonder if you’ve done the right thing especially during the first few years

because you’ll get wiser through experience. And after you’ve done all you can,you ought to know when to let go.

Sometimes education is a long-term investment; so don’t give up when thingsseem difficult. Your students take time to grow up and appreciate what you aredoing. Don’t worry, as your input will not be in vain.

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Lead teaching and learning at their schools

Senior Assisstance have to understand the strengths and needs of their students and they know whatis happening in the classrooms at their schools. These principals play an active role in planning andsupporting instruction that is appropriate for their students, and they ensure that school time andresources are focused on student achievement.

Questions to ask at your school1. Ask your principal: What are our school's main academic goals?2. Ask your prinicipal: What steps are being taken to achieve those goals?3. Look up your school's achievement data on GreatSchools.org and ask your principal: How is

the school addressing weaknesses or gaps in student achievement?Nearly 60 percent of Moscone Elementary School's students are English language learners, butPrincipal Patty Martel is determined that all of her students will be proficient in reading in English bythe time they move on to middle school. In support of this goal, she allocates money from her limitedschool budget to pay for an early intervention literacy program as soon as a student begins strugglingwith reading. She also requires that all programs at her school include an element of literacy. Readingand writing are integrated into art, science, and everything else the students do.

Principals must also understand what test scores and other data say about their students' learning anduse the information to help teachers set goals and improve instruction.

When test scores at Alvarado Elementary School showed that some groups of students were notreading and writing as well as others, Principal David Weiner helped teachers develop a new plan.Teachers across the school coordinated their reading and writing instruction, so that struggling

students could receive direct instruction from a literacy specialist in addition to the classroom teacher.

Successful principals must constantly evaluate what is working and what is not, and use thatinformation to make improvements.

Great principals hire, develop, and retain excellent teachersOne of a principal's most important roles is ensuring that every student is taught by an excellentteacher. Although it can be time-consuming, principals must actively recruit good teachers to their schools. Principals can visit teacher education classes to find promising new teachers; they can opentheir schools to student teachers and try to hire the good ones; and they can talk to teachers and other principals to find quality experienced teachers who might be looking for new positions.

Principals must also support and develop the teachers they have. Research shows that principalleadership is a key factor in a teacher's decision to stay at a particular school. Much of a principal'stime should be spent in classrooms observing teachers, complimenting their strengths, and offeringspecific suggestions for improvement. If a teacher is struggling with a particular issue or group of kids,the principal should be in the classroom as often as possible, watching and helping the teacher develop more successful strategies.

Patricia Gray, principal at Balboa High School, says that she spent two to three hours a day observingin classrooms and talking with teachers during her first several years as principal. Principal Weiner notes that many teachers initially objected to the hours he spent observing in classrooms at Alvarado,but he quickly found that the best teachers were eager to work with him to improve their teaching.

Questions to ask at your school1. Ask your principal: How do you recruit new teachers when there is an opening?2. Ask your child's teacher: How much time does the principal spend oberserving in your 

classroom?3. Ask your principal: How are great teahcers at our school recognized or reewarded?

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Providing meaningful opportunities for professional development is another way principals can helpteachers improve instruction. The principal should make sure that workshops and other developmentactivities are related to the goals of the school and will help teachers better serve their students.

Marcia Parrott, principal at Miraloma Elementary School, pulled her staff out of a time-consumingteacher training program that was not meeting their needs. The techniques taught in the trainingprogram were not compatible with the reading program used at the school and the program instructorswere not able to help the teachers integrate the two programs. Although she had to defend her decision to the school district, she was adamant that her teachers not spend their time on a programthey could not use to help students.

Principals must keep good teachers professionally satisfied by showing them that their efforts arevalued and supported by the principal and other teachers. Principal Martel joked that she keepsteachers at Moscone by doing all the yard duty herself. Although her comment was lighthearted, itreflects the respect she has for teachers and her recognition that the teachers at her school workhard.

Providing time to plan with other teachers is another way principals can support their teachers andtreat them as professionals. One of the first changes Principal Chiu made at Galileo was to changethe school day schedule to allow time each week for teachers to meet and plan together. Adelina

 Aramburo, former principal at Daniel Webster Elementary School, made sure her school's tight budgetincluded a few hours of extra pay each month for teachers. She believes this showed teachers thatthe time they spent meeting and planning together outside their official work day was recognized andappreciated.

Great principals build a strong school community 

For a school to be successful, the administration, teachers, parents, students and support staff mustwork as a team. Principals

must work with the staff to make school a welcoming place for all students and their families.

Principal Parrott at Miraloma holds a monthly parent-principal chat, an informal time when parents cancome to ask questions and give input. She also schedules meetings and events at times when parents

are already at the school picking up their children, for example, when the after-school program closesfor the day.

Questions to ask at your school

1. Ask your child: Do you feel safe at school?2. Ask your child: Do you think school rules and consequences are clear? Are all kids treated

fairly?3. Ask your principal: How can I get involved at the school?

 A great school community is one where students feel safe and know they will be treated fairly. It is theprincipal's job to create that safe atmosphere where children can learn. The first year she was atBalboa High School, Principal Gray was concerned about a gang presence at the school. Although itmeant she had to work many evenings and weekends, she met personally with the parents of everysingle student who got in trouble that year. Principal Gray believes her action sent a strong message

about her commitment to creating a safe learning community at Balboa.