CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
By: Johanna
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.education-world.com/a_curr/curr155.shtml
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/classman1.html
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WELL, YES IT IS AN IMPORTANT THING WE SHOULD STUDY AND FOCUS MORE BUT NOT ONLY TO DEAL WITH DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS; THERE ARE OTHER PROBLEMS TO SOLVE OR TO THINK OF LIKE; HOW TO KEEP STUDENTS ATTENTION AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT ANYWAY I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING TOPIC. GOOD.
Great topic Lady!
Well, for me the expression “difficult cases” has a different semantic connotation… In the last three years I’ve been working with students of different ages and social backgrounds, I have had from those kinds of students who know about everything to those who “accidentally” call me mum and never know where her/his things are. Well, I discovered that problems in a classroom come when a student nods in “positive signal” just because the other say yes, when a student doesn’t want to talk (not even in Spanish) well, this kind of student whose attention seems to be in front of his/her tv at home always… That is a difficult case for me…
Misbehavior..buuu..that's something difficult to deal with dear collegue...
I think the links you added are great. I like that one in which there is a list of things you can do to "encourage student's good behavior." We all know that we tend to punish misbehavior but we rarely give a good look at good behavior within a class because, good behavior is "what we expect from our students." I think we, as teachers of EFL, should try those techniques with our students. Believe me, it is better to give prices to good behaviors than punish misbehaviors. This will increase motivation and will make the classrom a suitable place to learn and grow as human beings.
Don't forget to visit my blog on Information and Communication Technologies in English Language Teaching. Here you have the link:
http://eltinthirdworldcountries.blogspot.com/
What a great idea!
I'm sure all of us (pre-service teachers) do not know how to deal with that issue at the beggining. Thanks for your advice; and those links are really useful.
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