Ann Monroe

Role Play for Classroom Management: Providing a Lodestar for Alternate-Route Teachers

Abstract Classroom management is a crucial skill for any teacher. It is a skill that many new teachers struggle with, especially those who enter the profession through an alternate-route program. Alternate-route teachers often lack the training, support, and student teaching offered through traditional teaching programs. As such, this essay offers a guide for training alternate-route -teachers on effective classroom management strategies through the use of role-play simulation.

Shame Solutions: How Shame Impacts School-Aged Children and What Teachers Can Do to Help

Abstract Though many psychologists and researchers argue over the age at which humans first experience shame, all agree that by age two children have the capacity to be shamed (Lansky and Morrison 1997). School-aged children have invariably been exposed to shame at home and receive an extra dose of it in our current school system. This essay investigates shame theory and explores how societal shaming practices manifest themselves in our schools, specifically examining the negative effects of shame on human development. Alternative pedagogical strategies—those that avoid shame and shaming—are discussed and endorsed.