CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
By: Johanna
A few days ago I heard a conversation where my partners complained about how some of their students misbehave in class. This behavior made it almost impossible to teach the lesson. I also overheard some of the solutions they had come up with to handle these “difficult cases”.That got me thinking about how poor our preparation for real classroom situations is. In our program (English Language Teaching) there’s no such subject like classroom management; this is, what we study the most is methodology, in which we talk about everything just shallowly. But this doesn’t mean classroom management is not important and that is something you just polish in your every day practice. So, how come we can get ready to cope with indiscipline in our classrooms if we haven’t studied the theory behind the practice? Let’s face it, teaching English as a second/foreign language is completely different than teaching any other subject in high school curriculum; that is, for a math teacher is easier to teach a lesson, because all (s)he cares is just to teach rules on a certain topic during his/her class; for us it’s quite different; we need to be able to engage students in the class, so they can communicate in the target language rather than getting distracted.I started searching on this topic because there’s no point crying over spilt milk, so I’ve found some interesting sources on the internet which might help us dealing with our students when teaching an English class. I’m sure when you check on them you’ll find out that we (ESL/EFL teachers) do many of these things instinctively.I hope you find useful the links below.
http://www.honorlevel.com/x47.xml?ss=print
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr155.shtml
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/classman1.html
