Hello Salam,
Classroom
Management ! I like this topic too. It is really a menace for a
novice teacher to stand on a podium and ‘look’ at a class of 60 to 150 (that
too college students). We have example of many teachers crying in the
class or just leaving it!
My experience says that if you start with personal note on
day one , ‘know, address and respect’ every student you win the half battle. At
least they don’t drive you out of the class. Next is you have to be ‘Prepared’
for one complete our. If they get slightest hint that you are just doing bla
bla bla... they won’t allow you to stand. They really want to ‘learn with
interest’ use technology which is their latest interest and bring multimedia...
it fascinates them...
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Hello Nishrin,
Classroom management is a very critical subject in the
class. A very good teacher is a very good manager. Management means success in
delivering the materials in a proper way. I know many teachers complain about
the number of students. In my country Yemen a secondary school classroom now is
150 to 180 students in a class. A university class is 70 to 200 in a class. It
is difficult for a teacher to manage but if we try we can manage. I believe
that technology can help a lot in this situation. I agree with that preparation
is a the start point in management. When a teacher is prepared well, that is
management. In preparation there is a very detailed process that a teacher
should follow. That is the secret hidden in classroom management.
Thank you
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Couple of things from my experience: 1) a teacher who
is energetic and likes what s/he is teaching will pass that feeling along to
her students. . . which leads to 2) I think that ELLs respond best to
interesting content- content that is cognitively challenging and relevant to
their lives. This motivates them to communicate about the content - to
explore, to share, to show what they know and what they want to know. The
successful ELT then can support students efforts by helping then learn the
language they need to do the above. For me content leads language in the
EL classroom. What do others think? Best, M.
