10 Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management By Jennifer Gonzalez You know the basics: Establish clear rules and consequences, be consistent, keep students engaged. But even with all that in place, the small things you do could be wreaking havoc on your whole system. Here are some habits you might have developed that are messing with your classroom management, along with more effective alternatives. 1. This was a big problem for me. Alternative: Make a conscious effort to hold a neutral, “on-task” facial expression when you need your class to be focused. 2. Addressing student misbehavior in a public way risks embarrassing the student, and if she is prone to being oppositional, she’s likely to talk back and dig herself into a deeper hole. Alternative: Whenever possible, address off-task behavior in private. Others just speak in a quiet voice by the student’s desk or call the student up to their own. 3. So many behavior problems start with students simply not understanding what they are supposed to do. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Dos and Don'ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best Tips Posted 08/20/2014 1:55PM | Last Commented 03/29/2016 9:48AM Classroom management is a delicate balancing act often learned through experience and trial-and-error experimentation. Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, having strategies for effective classroom management is essential for creating positive, successful learning spaces (and staying sane!). In this presentation you’ll find 25 tips for managing your classroom. Without further ado, here are the Dos and Don'ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best Tips: Each classroom is different, so please come back and share what you've learned and what works for you! NOTE: If you're having trouble viewing the presentation, click here to view it directly.
06-44-2-b.pdf Google Opens Classroom, Its Learning Management Tool, To All Teachers Back in May, Google announced the limited preview of Classroom, a tool that aims to make it easier for teachers to stay in touch with their students and to give them assignments and feedback. Google says more than 100,000 educators from 45 countries signed up to try it since then. Today, it is throwing the doors wide open, and anyone with a Google Apps for Education account can now use the service. Classroom, which is now available in 42 languages, gives teachers access to a content management system that allows them to post updates and homework assignments, add and remove students from their classes, and provide them with feedback (including grades). The service is free for schools as part of the Google Apps for Education suite. Classroom is only one of Google’s many initiatives to get schools to use its services (over using Apple’s or Microsoft’s offerings, for example). With Classroom, Google closes the loop.
Teaching English to Young Learners Details Hits: 8,575 TEYL or Teaching English to Young Learners refers to a more specialized area of teaching English which deals with younger students. Aside from the usual considerations which you should give to any TEFL class, there are certain extra considerations to take into account. This page offers general tips and ideas for the young learners classroom. Note, young learners here are assumed to be about 3 - 12 years old. First Lessons with Young Learners In the first few classes with a YL group, it's often good to just sit and play with the children and not to "teach" them. Also, and this is important, it's good to speak English only. Finally, speak naturally to the children. What to Teach Young Learners A first general rule is to forget teaching grammar to young learners but instead concentrate on simple, useful phrases and conversations. Tips and Tricks for Teaching English to Young Learners Teaching English to young learners is a whole specialized field. Motivating Young Learners
Academic Sponge Activities To put your rough days into perspective, here is a teaching story that is equal parts nightmare and exemplar, adapted from Alan Newland's personal account in The Guardian. When he was a first-year teacher in Hackney and Totenham, Newland found his sixth graders to be challenging to the extreme. Before their Thursday swim lesson at a local aquatic center, he repeatedly warned his kids not to jump into the pool before the swim instructor arrived. But before he could undress in the locker room, six students were screaming, giggling, and frolicking in the pool. "Out! Back on the bus, students were incensed. How do you turn something like that around? Newland went home defeated and angry, on the verge of quitting. "When you go in there this morning, tell the whole class you are going to do two things: First -- you are going to apologize to all those children you punished who didn't deserve to miss their swimming lesson. What is the underlying cause of the problem? Demoralized? Sponges
Age-Related Variations Between Young and Adult Learners: A Theoretical Review of Different Perspectives | Amer Adway Student: 110014 Second Language Learning and Teaching Module code: EDU5134 A: The biological factor: Is language acquisition biologically determined? plasticity and argues that after puberty “children need more conscious and laborious efforts to acquire language and that their foreign accents can’t easily be overcome (1967.p.176) Lennenberg’s views have been criticized by other linguists and psychologists. who has built some of his views on Lennenberg’s, has reanalyzed data Lennenberg used andreviewed his hypothesis.
Creating a Welcoming and Intellectually Challenging Classroom As you set up your classroom for the new school year, try spending a few minutes in your students' chairs. Are you comfortable? Now look closer: Will the seating arrangement invite conversations between students, or keep them isolated? What do you notice about what's on display around the room? Will students see themselves and their families reflected in the diversity of images and books? Are whiteboards, laptops, and other tools for learning within reach for students, or reserved for the teacher? Veteran educators Dorothy M. Their book, Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn (Corwin, 2013), offers thoughtful advice, grounded in research and practice, that's worth considering throughout the school year. The authors' field-tested suggestions deserve special attention early in the year when you and your students have a fresh start on building a positive classroom culture. Supporting Student Voice and Collaboration Aim high: Warm and safe doesn't mean easy.
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library 7 Questions to Ask Parents at the Beginning of the Year As a beginning teacher I knew that it was important to connect with parents and to build a positive relationship with them, but at times I wasn't sure how to do this. Within the first week of school I'd call all my student's parents or guardians, introduce myself, and share a little about what they could expect for their kids in my class that year. In retrospect, I wish I'd asked more questions about their child and then listened more to what they had to say. After twenty years of experience and after sending my own child off to school, here are some questions I'd ask parents with the intention of building a partnership to support their child's learning. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. While ideally teachers would be able to meet with every parent and have this kind of a conversation in person, I recognize that our schools are not aligned to this priority and we just don't have the time. I write this blog less from the stance of a teacher and more from my perspective as a mother.