Top 10 Ways to Alienate Your Students
A Guide for Beginning English Teachers
by Rob Linné

10) Refer often to pithy motivational posters lining your classroom walls.

9) Spend at least two weeks drilling on the pluperfect tense.

8) Round-robin read alouds.

7) Never too much Puritan American literature.

6) Always, always have students answer comprehension questions at the end of textbook selections.

5)^In complete sentences that restate the question.

4) Skip Zeferelli and Branagh adaptations; read Will aloud yourself.

3) Often repeat teacher catch phrases like "This isn't a democracy!"

2)Vocab every Wednesday, spelling every Friday.

1) Two words...Skinnerian behaviorism.

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