The following is a list of ways to teach in a gentle manner and was written by Martin Haberman in an article for educational HORIZONS in Spring 1994:
"* Put students ahead of subject matter. Use students' interests.
Generate students' interests. Never go through the meaningless
motion of "covering" material apart from students' involvement
and learning.
"* Never use shame or humiliation.
"* Never scream or harangue.
"* Never get caught in escalating punishments to force compliance.
"* Listen, hear, remember, and use students' ideas.
" Model cooperation with all other adults in the building.educational HORIZONS
"* Respect students' expressions of ideas.
"* Demonstrate empathy for students' expressions of feelings.
"* Identify student pain, sickness, and abuse, and follow up with
people who can help them.
"* Redefine the concept of a hero. Show how people who work
things out are great.
"* Teach students peer mediation. Do not expect students to learn
from failing; repeated failure leads only to more frustration and
giving up.
"* Devise activities at which students can succeed; success engenders further effort.
"* Be a source of constant encouragement by finding good parts of
all students' work.
"• Defuse, sidestep, redirect all challenges to your authority. Never
confront anyone, particularly in public.
"* Use cooperative learning frequently.
"* Create an extended family in the classroom.
"* Use particular subject matters as the way to have "fights": science
"fights" about rival explanations, math "fights" about different
solutions, social studies "fights" about what really happened.
"* Never ask students for private information publicly.
"* Don't try to control by calling on children who are not paying
attention and embarrassing them.
"* Demonstrate respect for parents in the presence of their children
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