first , how old are you? if your right out of college, calm down, rely on your own personal experiences in high school, stay on point with the games/lies these kids are going to try …if your older, use the wisdom of your years teaching and be flexable to how these kids are dealing with in todays world,keep yourself up to date with whats going on in they’re world,

I found the part about movie editing interesting.

You do realize about half the students have been putting videos on YouTube for the last year, so if you have any problems ask them, I’m sure they’ll give you tips.

Most of the kids should have an understand of basic computer functions.

So, it will be more like teaching college freshmen.

I wouldn’t get too much into the theory, but more into the practical.

I’d qualify the students with an oral review to see how extensive their knoweldge is, since many of them have probably worked with routers and may have family networks.

As for behavior control, they’re a bunch of hormones, the best way to keep the behavior under control is NOT to be boring and giving some lecture on pack distribution and telling them something they’ve never heard before that’s practical like using ports, opening ports, closing ports. How enterprise systems work. The value of DOT NET

Kids will be kids and we all pass through transitions to become adult. The tattoos and piercings are no more or less then shock values like long hair was in the 60’s.

A very simple teaching strategy is to concentrate on Goals, Objectives, Activities and Measure of accomplishment. These four concerns are easy to manage as a lesson plan for long term and daily teaching plans.

In my opinion there is not such thing as teaching; all a teacher really does is set up a learning environment where educational experiences can take place.

I agree with other posters – you need to gather yourself and exude confidence. Not *********, but that you’ve got things under control.

On working with kids in computer labs, theft can be a problem. Establish a routine for the end of each class period, where you can go around, check the mice for their balls (!), keyboards’ all still in place, logged off properly, etc.

If the room isn’t arranged so you can always see all monitors, change the room layout. What are the consequences for off-task computer work? You better know what you’re going to do, when kids are doing the wrong thing.

Come up with procedures for everything – how to turn in work, how to ask questions, how to enter the room, when we can/can’t do this, etc. And practice them, be consistent. My husband teaches a computer class at a college, and he even needs to insist (at times) that they put their hands in their laps, off the computer, eyes on him, so they can listen to lecture. It might seem babyish for college students, but even they need that firm NO sometimes.

Don’t try to lesson plan too far in advance – you’ll get frazzled, and it won’t go that way, anyways. A week’s plan at once is enough. Have an objective each day (Students Will Be Able To…), activities for each day, assessment (how they will be graded – formally, or informally). If you’re working on a longer project, the objective might be for the week, but there should be daily progress objectives, then. Another assessment besides projects might be keeping good notes – grade them on their note taking, and let them use it on quizzes. Another assessment idea is to give them a task (create a document to these specifications, and submit it in the next 30 minutes).

Don’t assume they know anything. Start with the basics. When it comes to technology, you’ll have some kids that are way beyond everyone else (including you), and some that come from situations, where they’ve never used a computer before. You might want to give them a survey on the first day of school, getting to know them, and also getting to know what their goals are for this class, and previous experience with computers (statements like, “I use a computer everyday,” and “I’ve taken a computer class before” etc). Let them know that once you cover the basics, things will loosen up/open up for them to work independently at their own pace – but for now – you want to make sure everyone’s on the “same page” and able to function independently with a few critical tasks.

Good books to read on classroom management: The First Days of School (Harry Wong), Tools for Teaching (Fred Jones), Setting Limits in the Classroom (MacKenzie).

I’ll tell you – once a school hires you, they want to keep you. It’s easier for everyone. But a sure way to get yourself fired, is to not handle a classroom properly. Classroom management and good discipline is essential to keeping your job.

I’m inferring from your comments that at least some aspects of the subject matter you are teaching (Information Technology) is unfamiliar to you? I’ve known English teachers who have had to teach math or social studies. Ah, yes, sometimes a teacher’s predicament requires circumstantial hoop-jumping.

Well, don’t panic. First of all, you shouldn’t have to start lesson planning from scratch, even if you are the only IT instructor. In fact, don’t cheat yourself of the very technology you’re meant to teach! The Internet provides a lot of teacher resources, including pre-existing lesson plans. You shouldn’t have to invent the wheel each time you are planning a lesson. I did a Google search using the phrase “film editing lesson plans” and already found a useful lesson plan that could keep your kids occupied (according to the site) for 5-10 periods.

http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/documentary.html

As far as advice about maintaining discipline in the class, here are some practical tips:

1) One of the most important things to do is set up routines for your classroom so as to minimize classroom disruptions. By the end of the first month, students should know exactly what they have to from the moment they enter the classroom all the way to the moment they leave. For example, do they copy notes or do a warm-up exercise for the first five minutes of the period? How will they submit homework? In a tray as they enter? A student volunteer to collect? When you’re lecturing, will you be able to lock out student from their computers to assure their attention (some computer labs allow the computer administrator to do this, I believe), or will you walk around to ensure everyone is focused on you. What’s your bathroom policy? Do they have to raise their hand? Sign out? You have to think of the class period from beginning to end, and have a list of procedures that students can follow by heart. Remember, it’s your classroom, so you call the shots on how you think your routines should flow.

2) You are the teacher, you are not there to be their best friend. Students want to feel they are being respected and cared about, but you must do so in the capacity of a teacher who asserts her authority in a calm but firm and effective manner..

3) Talk to other teachers to get their advice about teaching strategies. However, avoid their criticisms about individual students (unless they have helpful suggestions about how to deal with a specific “problem” student based on their own experiences). Their biases should not become yours, and anyways, you may develop an entirely different relationship with the “trouble” student in question given that you have your own personality and dynamic different from your colleagues.

4) Dress professionally, especially if you tend to be younger looking.

5) When it comes to discipline, be VERY clear and VERY consistent with how you want to enact consequences for poor behavior. Does a third disruption result in a call home? A lowered participation grade for the day? But discipline is a reactive measure versus preventative.

There is so much more to I could iterate, but really after a certain point, the learning curve only gets traversed through your own personal experience. I still find I’m still learning how to effectively implement lesson plans and about different basic student personality “types” which would then allow me to better negotiate their behavior in class.

Teaching is not easy, but just avail yourself of every single resource that is available to you. You’ve already done this by reaching out here at Yahoo! Answers. Despite the inevitable mistakes you’ll make on the way, your teaching does get better and you can achieve a fulfilling rapport with students provided you persevere. Take it from this teacher who has taught high need area kids in NYC.

I’ve also included some links to some useful books about classroom management. Definitely check them out!

You can’t walk into your classroom and ACT confident. You have to BE confident. Know as much as you can about your subject but also know as much as you can about everything else especially school rules. Many of those kids have been there longer than you have and they already know the right answers to some of the questions they are going to ask. Don’t blow BS there way. Remember, you are not their friend. You are their teacher. Being friends comes later….if ever.

there is probable extra reason to be frightened of young ones now than there grew to become into 10 years in the past. in spite of the actuality that maximum adolescents are straightforward and friendly, the minority searching for disagreement is transforming into. i’m not frightened of young ones, specially because of the fact I artwork with them and in part because of the fact i could be responsive to what to do if i grew to become into attacked. yet maximum human beings of my era have heard the thoughts of knife-wielding, out-of-administration, hoodie donning yobs and save as a techniques away as conceivable.

as a teenager i know we smell fear lol. you have to be claim and never show fear. try to relate things to real life as much as you can because half the time i sit in school and think wow this is boring how am i ever gonna use this.

dont show them fear… dont smile for the first 3 weeks