Week 2

This post is regarding a lesson plan that I felt my students really enjoyed. It was actually quite simple to set up. I divided the students into 4 groups 5 students per group. I used the questions from the next exam to access their prior knowledge of the topic. The group had one minute discuss the question and write A,B,C, or D on these mini-white boards that I had passed out.
I noticed the first few questions the students were talking about non-topic issues. I then addressed the class and said I am hearing a lot of non-topic related chatter so I lowered the time to 30 seconds with my timer. This really seemed to help and got the students in a competition to answer the question correctly. This was the first time I actually enjoyed being in front of the class.

Week 2

I had my first disciplinary confrontation this past week with a student in my Marketing class. 
There was a student that had his phone out and I asked him to " put it away " .
The student responded " I'm coping my notes". I responded " put away your phone". This student was obviously not taking notes because during lecture. He was not writing anything down. He had a sarcastic tone as well. 
He then stated " Fu***** Teachers".  In front of the entire class of 20 students. He then slammed his laptop down and proceeded to put it back on the laptop cart. When he got back to his desk I told the student "it was not personal" but the student just seemed to ignore me.  
I spoke with my co-op teacher about the issue and she said to give him a lunch detention.Which in my opinion was a bit on the lighter side of punishment but you do not want to lose the student entirely for an overly harsh punishment.