Over praise students for doing what is expected
Don't know the difference between praise and acknowledgement and when each is appropriate
Fail to plan
Spend too much time with one student or one group and not monitoring the entire class
Begin a new activity before gaining the students' attention
Talk too fast and in a language students don’t understand
Use a voice level that is always either too loud or too soft
Stand too long in one place
Sit too long while teaching
Overemphasis on the negatives
Are way too serious and not much fun
Are way too much fun and not serious
Fall into a rut by using the same teaching strategy or combination of strategies day after day.
Ineffectively use silence (wait time) after asking a content question
Use "SHHHH" as a means of quieting students
Use threats to control the class
Do not intervene quickly enough during inappropriate student behaviour
Do not learn and use student names in an effective way
Take too much time to give verbal directions for an activity
Overuse punishment for classroom misbehaviour
