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Begin a new activity before gaining the students' attention.
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Spend too much time with one student or one group and not monitoring the entire class.
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Talk
to fast.
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Use
"SHHHH" as a means of quieting students (one of the most annoying and ineffective behaviors).
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Interrupt students while they are on task.
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Overemphasize the negative.
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Are way too serious and not much
fun or are way too much fun and not serious.
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Fall into a rut by using the same teaching strategy or combination of strategies day after day.
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Use threats to control the class (short term, produces results; long term, backfires).
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Verbally
reprimand students across the classroom (get close and personal if
possible).
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Ask global
or poorly worded questions that nobody likely will answer.
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Try to talk over student noise (never, ever, do this, because when you do, you lose and they win).
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Will do anything to be liked by students.
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Introduce too many topics simultaneously (usually the result of poor planning).
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Take too much time to give verbal directions for an activity (an inability to focus and explain effectively).
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Overuse punishment for classroom misbehavior - going to an extreme when other consequences work better.
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Use
of humiliation and intimidation to discipline student behavior or gain
respect.