This document discusses best practices and default practices for classroom management in ESL group classes. It covers several areas of classroom management including content details, student profiling, learning styles, motivation, seating positions, equal opportunities, managing corrections, tolerance for competency lapses, self-checking approaches, closing topics, maximizing language exposure, language transfer issues, maintaining student interest, and developing a teaching niche. The document provides information on differentiating instruction based on student skills and managing a classroom to incorporate best practices.

1. ESL GROUP CLASS
BEST PRACTICES AND DEFAULT PRACTICES IN
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

2. Default PracticeVS. Best Practice
A Default Management Practice may be the Best
Management Practice BUT not all Best Management
Practices are Default Management Practices.

3. MANAGEMENTAREAS
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
CURRICULAR INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT
CONTENT DETAIL PROFILE
Grammar: Ditransitive Boring. Can’t simplify Learning Style
complex ideas. Does not Personal Issues
explain well.
CONTENT T.S.A. PROFILING
COMPETENCY COMPETENCY COMPETENCY

4. LEARNING STYLES
• Detailed Analytical
• Sequential Global
• Technical
• Confluent
LEVEL/ SKILL DIFFERENTIATION
Real Beginner Listening
False Beginner Reading
Speaking
Writing
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MOTIVATION
Intrinsic Motivation Extrinsic Motivation
Grammar
Pronunciation
PROFILINGTECHNIQUES

5. SEATING POSITION
INTERVENTION
Slow
With Impairments
2

6. EQUAL OPPPORTUNIY
Logical Sequence: Best FIRST, Poor LAST.
LIMITATION:
Interest
Inclination
Exposure
3

7. MANAGING CORRECTIONS
INTERRUPTIVE?
NON-INTERRUPTIVE?
nature of activity
profile preference
teacher’s Niche
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8. TOLERANCE ON COMPETENCY LAPSES
Teacher must have a sense of Benchmark of
Levels
IMPACTS Comprehensibility
Level Appropriate Errors: Self-Check
5

9. SELF-CHECKING APPROACH
Established ‘Handshake’ between Assigned
Level and Level of Actual Competency =
Provisional Mastery
Prompted? Unprompted? Self-Check
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10. CLOSURE OF TOPICS
Not Prepared
Beyond Preparation
BuyTime. Ask an Authority
Fish for Hints
Check or Objectives
Throw Back
The HONEST Me
Me and my Creative Juices
7

11. MAXIMUM LANGUAGE EXPOSURE
CONTROLLED n’ MANAGED OPEN EXPOSURE
Classroom based
Curriculum based
Focused
Formal structure heavy
CompromisedAuthentic
Practice
Immersion based: Complete
involvement with the
language
Shifting structure
Exposure to variations:
Authentic Practice
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12. LANGUAGE TRANSFER ISSUES
Finished, Chi-Cher, Changed, Nice-uh, Lily?,
KelvinTeacher
FOSSILED ISSUES: Sounding and Structuring
CORRECTION: Straight Forward Approach
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13. INTEREST PERFORMANCE
HUMOR
WIT
SPARKLE
FUN
EXCITEMENT
10

14. NICHE FACTOR
ONES’ UNIQUENESS
ONES’ MAKE
ONES’ STYLE
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