Issues to consider in classroom management- slides for the TESOL sessions

1. TESOL
Amin Neghavati
neghavati@gmail.com
Classroom
Management

2. 1. What is classroom management?!

3. • Setting-up activities
• Giving instructions
• Monitoring activities
• Timing activities
• Bringing activities to an end
Activities

4. • Forming groupings
• Arranging and rearranging seating
• Deciding where you stand or sit
• Reforming class as a whole group after activities
Grouping and seating

5. • Gathering and holding attention
• Deciding who does what (ie answer a question, make a
decision, etc.)
• Establishing or relinquishing authority as appropriate
• Getting someone to do something
Authority

6. • Starting the lesson
• Dealing with unexpected problems
• Maintaining appropriate discipline
• Finishing the lesson
Critical moments

7. • Using the board and other classroom equipment or aids
• Using gestures to help clarity of instructions and explanations
• Speaking clearly at an appropriate volume and speed
• Use of silence
• Grading complexity of language
• Grading quantity of language
Tools and techniques

8. • Spreading you attention evenly and appropriately
• Using intuition to gauge what students are feeling
• Eliciting honest feedback from students
• Really listening to students
Working with people

9. • Teacher talk and student talk
• Classroom interaction
• Increasing student-student interaction
• VIDEO: encouraging quiet students
2. Classroom interaction

10. • What different seating positions are possible without moving
anything?
• Are any rearrangements of seats possible?
• Which areas of the room are suitable for learners to stand and
interact in?
• Is there any possibility that the room could be completely
rearranged on a semi-permanent basis to make a better
language classroom space?
3. Seating

11. • Moveable seats
Seating options in the classroom

12. 4. Giving instructions

13. Giving instructions

14. • Eye contact
• Gestures
• Silence and waiting
• Patiently moving your eyes round the room from person to
person
• If the silence-wait doesn’t work, don’t alter it dramatically!
Just add in a clear attention-drawing word such as OK. Say it
once and then go back to the waiting.
Attention Getting Strategies

15. 5. AGS- Gestures
VIDEO: Using
Gestures

16. • Sit down and read a book?
• Go out of the room and have a coffee?
• Wander around the room and look at what students are doing?
• Sit down and work with separate groups one by one, joining in
the tasks as a participant?
• Listen carefully to as many students as possible, going over and
correcting mistakes when you catch them, offering ideas when
students get stuck, etc.?
6. Monitoring- What is your role during the activity?

17. • Step One:
– The first 30 seconds: are they doing the task set?
• Step Two:
– The task itself:
– Monitoring discreetly
– Vanish
– Monitor actively
– Participate
• VIDEO: Monitoring and giving full attention
Monitoring- Deciding on your role

18. 7. Using the board

19. Board Plan
VIDEO:
Writing on
The board

20. • TTT (Teacher Talking Time)
• Echo
• Helpful sentence completion
• Complicated and unclear
instructions
• Not asking ICQ’s
• Asking ‘Do you understand?’
• The running commentary
• Lack of confidence in self,
learners, materials, activity
• Over-helping
• Flying with the fastest
• Not really listening
• Weak rapport
How to prevent learning!!

21. Classroom Management- at a glance

22. • Classroom management at a glance
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