My vision of the: “Dynamite Lesson Plan” aka great Behavior and Classroom Management. I started this blog in early 2007 and it’s evolved to something I am quite proud of today. I named the blog after something my master “teacher-school” teacher told me after observing me the first time. My class was out of control and it was borderline embarassing. I asked him for strategies to keep their behavior under control and he said:
“The best classroom behavior management is a dynamite lesson plan.”
It’s been 11 years since he told me that and it is the truest thing I’ve ever been told in teaching.
People are drawn to passion and form like a moth to a lightbulb. If you tell a kid he has to learn math he might buy in. If you tell a kid that every chair in the world will fall apart if people don’t learn math, you’ll have buy in.
A dynamite lesson plan is a direction. It simply inspires a plan. After that, the effective teacher must get creative and use a method. I use EDI as my lesson template but there are other good ones. This blog has become a place where I explore ways to create dynamite lesson plans. I appreciate the input I have in the comments and I hope to get more teachers and students involved in what I do here. My hope is it will inspire teachers and empower students to be great and score high.
Here’s to a dynamite future as we continue to discover the parts of a dynamite lesson plan. If you are new here, I recommend visiting the top 50 posts to see what’s here.
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This is absolutely true! If the kids are engaged, they won’t be concerned with anything else!
@Meaghan: Thank you for the agreement. It goes along with that notion that learning is often “caught” rather than “taught.” Engaging them is the best way to get a lesson across.