The textbook helped me!!!

I must say our presentations with those behaviors cards were interesting. I’ve always thought how I would react to certain situation in the classroom like for instance a student throwing a pen across the room or a student kicking a desk. Well after experiencing at least a little bit I think I can handle it. Before my presentation I read a chapter for another class on classroom management and I tried to use some of those techniques I read about during my presentation and I must say they work. One of those techniques was a quiet stare, which tells that students you noticed and you think he should stop the behavior. I used it when on of my classmate kicked a desk and after my presentation was over he said that it was effective. Another I used was the use of proximity while in they class was in-group activity if I noticed they were speaking about something that nothing to do with the subject. Overall I think that the textbook was extremely helpful where in most cases text books are not practical this one was.

Classroom Management

I had to write a paper on Classroom management and as I was looking for ideas online I found a great worksheet that would squash the fun out of profanity in the classroom. Looking at it myself I would hate to have to complete the worksheet. But what makes the worksheet great is the fact that it helps students expand their vocabulary by having the students find alternative ways of expressing themselves. Below I’ve copied and pasted the worksheet, I don’t how it’s going to look in the format but you might be able to get the general idea.







Profanity Worksheet


Vocabulary Expander

To be completed by those students who use profanity or make other poor language choices.

There are many places where the use of profanity is inappropriate. The purpose of this assignment is to expand your ability to communicate in such situations without using profanity, so that you do not get in trouble at school, make bad impressions on bosses or interviewers, or do not get fired in the workplace. You also can learn the word’s precise meanings, its history, and other usages.

1) Write the sentence or phrase you used exactly, including your profanity.



2) Copy the COMPLETE definition from the dictionary ON THE BACK of this page. (include everything. Example: “hell (hel) n. [[ME helle < OE hel (akin to Ger holle, hell & ON Hel, the underworld goddess, Hel) < base of helan, to cover, hide < IE base *kel-, to hide, cover up > L celare, to hide]] 1. [often H-] Bible the place where the spirts of the dead are: identified with Sheol and Hades 2. [often H-] Theol. a) a state or place of woe… etc.]

3) Which definition most closely fits your usage?__________________

4) What part of speech was the profanity that you used?________________

5) Rewrite your sentence from 1), replacing your profanity with the definition selected in 3).



6) Write 4 alternative ways to communicate the same idea without using profanity or a sound-alike word. (ex, if you said, “What the _____?” you could use “What do you mean?”, “That’s very strange”, etc. You cannot include, “What the heck?”)

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