I think this is important to remember. We should hold to our classroom procedures, but we shouldn't treat students neglecting or forgetting procedures as seriously as breaking rules.

This feels really important to me. I think a lot of students tend to act out when they're bored, and then their consequences have nothing to do with the behavior they are exhibiting, and they don't care about the consequences, so they continue to act out. I really like the idea of direct and natural consequences. For instance: A student is misusing scissors in an unsafe way. Now they don't get to use scissors for their project.

Anyone have suggestions for positive consequences that could be used in an art class?

How can we set expectations for student behavior when we only have students one hour out of the day or a few hours a week? It seems like it would be harder to maintain consistency when they spend most of their time with other teachers who have different rules

Something I observed in my pre-1 was that my CT did not always have great classroom management skills, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what was going wrong. Some days or hours would be great and others would be awful. I've realized a big part of this came down to a lack of consistency in the classroom. She was inconsistent with her rules and how she enforced them, and it left a ton of room for students to misbehave. I think that a consistent daily enforcement of her rules would have been a huge benefit to her classroom. I want to figure out ways to do this better, because I know that as an introvert, being assertive and consistent does not always come naturally to me.

I think this is a really important point, because it's really easy to view the role of teacher as someone who is just standing in the front of the classroom and teaching students, but it's honestly way more complex than that. If we reshape our thinking to realize that our main role is to make our classroom into a place where students CAN learn, I think our methods will be way more effective. I've had teachers who are so intelligent and friendly, but they are unable to control their classrooms, and so their students are constantly distracted and they never learn

I think VPNs are a great idea and a great way to protect your information, but I wonder if VPNs make it harder for law enforcement to do their job when they are trying to track illegal activity?

I have a relative who works for social security and frequently interacts with people who have given out their information to people who are phishing or scammers. Rule of thumb, if it seems sketchy, it probably is.

Maybe this is naive of me, but I am really not bothered by targeted ads. They are there to personalize our experience. Are there any legitimate dangers to tracking if it's only for personalization and targeted ads?

I think it's interesting that so many apps and websites make it kind of difficult to access their terms and conditions, and frequently they are many many pages long and hard to understand. I know that a lot of this is probably due to them having to include a lot of information for legal reasons, but sometimes I wonder if they actually don't want us to know all the things we are agreeing to when we click "agree to terms and conditions"