This document provides an agenda and presentation for a new teacher orientation. It includes discussions around introductions, classroom procedures, invitational vs. disinvitational language, and instructional strategies. Teachers share procedures and discuss establishing routines in their classrooms. The presentation emphasizes building positive relationships with students and intentionally creating an inviting learning environment.

1. Day 2
Find your Path
2012
New Teacher Orientation
Saint Joseph School District

2. 7 Things You May
Want to Know
This presentation played on a class
website prior to the first day of school.
If I was doing this again, need a much
faster pace movie!

3. Door Prize
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5. Agenda for Friday, 8/3
Questions
Sharetime
Inviting/Disinviting Language
Procedures

6. Introductions
How will you introduce yourself to
the class?

7. Sharetime
Top Seven Things Students Want to Know

8. Classroom
Arrangement
The good, the bad, and the ugly...

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11. Door Prize
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12. Thank you to Sean Nash for Slideset

16. What has this to do with praise?

18. Inviting the student
to learn.

19. The basis of being
inviting is building
relationships.
Answers the question, “Will this teacher
treat me fairly?”

20. Four Areas of Invitation
• verbal comments
• personal behaviors
• physical environment
• self-talk

21. Sort the following strips into
two categories.
• Invitational
• Disinvitational

22. Students can refuse
words, but they cannot
refuse an invitational
attitude.

23. Four Levels of
Invitational
Education

24. Intentionally
Disinviting
These teachers
deliberately demean,
discourage, defeat, and
dissuade students.
And they never smile.

25. Unintentionally
Disinviting
These teachers are oblivious to the
fact that they are negative people.
They feel that they are well-
meaning but are seen by others as
chauvinistic, condescending,
racist, sexist, patronizing, or
thoughtless.
And they keep their arms
folded when interacting with
students.

26. Unintentionally
Inviting
These are the “natural-born
teachers.” Such teachers are
generally well-liked and effective.
They are usually affable, and this
characteristic often hides the fact
that their students may not be
learning to their fullest potential.
These teachers are sincere, they try
very hard, and we like to have them
as friends.
And they bubble with
excitement.

27. Intentionally
Inviting
These teachers have a
professional attitude, work
diligently and consistently, and
strive to be more effective. They
have a sound philosophy of
education and can analyze the
process of student learning. They
know what it means to be
invitational, and they work at it.
And they use the proper
emotion at the proper time.

28. • With your table, look at the charts
we’ve created.
• Which of these actions are
intentional?
• Which are unintentional?

29. Effective teachers know how to
open the door and invite their
students to learn.

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31. Restroom Break

32. Door Prize
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33. Just the Facts
• Importance of Parent Contact
• Just say no
• Your instructional coach and you

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35. Procedures

36. If you do not structure your
classroom, the students will
structure the classroom for
you.
Harry Wong

37. Highly engaged in meaningful tasks
Responsible
Motivated

38. Procedures
“THE NUMBER ONE
PROBLEM IN THE
CLASSROOM IS NOT
DISCIPLINE;
IT IS THE LACK OF
PROCEDURES AND
ROUTINES.”

39. WHAT PROCEDURES DO
YOU NEED TO ESTABLISH
IN YOUR CLASSROOM?
Take a moment to think...
and jot them down in your notebooks.
(Please draw a line down the middle of your page and write
your procedures in the left column.)

40. Give One-Get One

41. • Walk around the room during the music and stop when the
music stops.
• Find your closest neighbor.
• “Give” them one of your procedures.
• “Get” one of theirs.
• Write it in the right column of your notebook.
• Repeat.

42. Independent
Reading
• Take a few moments to read
pages 165-169.
• As you’re reading, find the
sentence that sticks out in
your mind & mark it.
• Do the same for a phrase.
• Repeat with a word.
• When you’re finished reading,
add your sentence, phrase,
and word to the charts.

43. PROCEDURES HAVE
BETWEEN THREE
AND FIVE STEPS.

44. Practice
• Look through the list compiled from Harry Wong.
• Pick 5 procedures from your notebook collection
and/or Harry’s list.
• Write the “procedure” for each.
• Share at your table.

45. What does it look like to follow a
procedure?
• Model your expectations!
• Got it!
• Almost Got It
• Not It

46. THE THREE STEPS TO
TEACHING PROCEDURES
1. Explain. State, explain, model, and demonstrate the
procedure.
2. Rehearse. Rehearse and practice the procedure
under your supervision.
3. Reinforce. Reteach, rehearse, practice, and reinforce
the classroom procedure until it becomes a student
habit or routine.

47. Basic Beliefs
Classroom organization and
procedures have a huge impact on
student behavior.
How do I teach them to do what I
want them to do?

48. Basic Beliefs
Focus more time
on positive!
Remember,
inviting vs.
disinviting
language.

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50. Next Week
• Procedures-Write them out
• Finalize your Introduction
• Rearrange Room, if needed
• Finalize your Responses to the
Seven Things Students Want to
Know.

51. T he
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52. Door Prize
Time!!!

53. Media Thanks
• “Afraid and Worried by Onur YILDIRIM (Shadov) at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
54312197@N00/206380921/
• “Attack of The Amancay by amanky at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
84213819@N00/351269265/
• “181/365 We are not amused” by barrowboy at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
48778414@N04/5915202803/
• “Composing -67/365” by Andreanna Moya Photography at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
13897165@N00/4426570168/
• “Jumping Over the 3rd Largest Pyramid in the World” by Anirudh Koul at http://
www.flickr.com/photos/84856173@N00/2523651888/
• “One One Out” by c.a. muller at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
61963330@N00/618199950/
• “Welding Class at Piney Point” by Caption Victor at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
21406103@N00/416120083/

54. Media Thanks
• “Attention Toilettes” by denseatoms at http://www.flickr.com/photos/78356014@N00/2979754753/
• “Break” by Curtis Gregory Perry at http://www.flickr.com/photos/33124677@N00/5567458776/
• “eclipse flare december 21 2010” by davedehetre at http://www.flickr.com/photos/davedehetre/
5279336463/
• “New Years Eve 2011” by Joshua Mellin at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
21219540@N08/5314531889/
• “Style: Are these Converse?” by Susan NYC at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
19251296@N00/124503564/
• “How to make caramel from sweetened condensed milk” by Pinot & Dita at http://www.flickr.com/
photos/pinodita/2328315091/
• Adventures on safari in the desert: [excited whispering] "...we are close enough to witness the lion
king sitting down in the shadow of a large roll of toilet paper to crap and contemplate the meaning of
life." by David Blackwell at http://www.flickr.com/photos/40966760@N00/4983206174/
• “Gotta Go” by kbaird at http://www.flickr.com/photos/35928519@N00/5677428997/

55. Media thanks:
1. Image: 'handshake I' by oooh oooh at www.flickr.com/photos/
24436943@N00/1350774613
2. “Free Hugs by bass_nroll at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
38074293@N00/3233035295/
3. “Little” by Ferdinand Reus at http://www.flickr.com/photos/
72092071@N00/5441096035/
4. Image: 'Tools' by batega www.flickr.com/photos/
10488545@N05/1596898776
5. Image: 'Angry Math/History teacher' by kodama (home) http://
www.flickr.com/photos/51035751904@N01/2217279
6. Squirrel Video by agamos1118 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?