classroom management

1. CLASSROOM
MANAGEMENT

2. HOW TO START THE LESSON
 Do not say “Shall we start now?” or “Is everyone here?” Start a chat with ‘early
arrivers’, which may feel ‘late arrivers’ that they have missed something. Then,
move from this chat into the actual lesson.
 When greeting, try “greeting individually” rather than saying “Hello” to whole
class. Greet your students individually by establishing eye contact.
 Before students come into your class, write a greeting message on the board
such as ‘Welcome’ or something related to the day such as ‘date’, ‘subject’ or
‘weather’.

3. HOW TO START THE LESSON-Some
techniques
 Use mysteries so that students will think about something and this will draw their
attention. For example, the teacher can bring a strange visual and ask the
students to discuss about it. OR; S/he can want students to ask WH- questions
for defining the visual.
 Ask the class to stand up, show a movement and ask a student to copy the
movement and add a new movement. Then, ask other student to copy the two
movements and add another movement. Continue in this way.

4. HOW TO START THE LESSON-Some
techniques
 Pair the students,A& B. A will show a movement and B will copy the
movement. The pairs can change the roles.
 Ask the class to stand up. Tell them a short story including ‘actions’ and ask
students to mime the actions. After continuing in this way, tell the story but do
not show actions this time, your students will mime the actions.

5. USING THE BOARD
 Divide the board into sections: A coloumn down left and right sides of the board
and a horizontal division of the middle section. This will make 4 sections in total.
So, you have chance to work on different subjects on different sections of the
board. For example, you can list new vocabulary one the right side, and you can
write the homework on the left side. The middle sections can be the place where
actual lesson explanations could be made.

6. USING THE BOARD
 Check the clarity of your writing on the board.
 Use tables, charts, mind-maps, if possible, to make the comprehension easier.
 Use your color pens carefully. If you write on the board with different colors, it
could be difficult to see and distinguish the letters or words. So, use color pens
for highlighting some structures or words in order to draw the attention.

7. ENDING THE LESSON
 Write a closing sentence on the board such as: “the most difficult thing in today’s
lesson was...”, “the most interesting thing I learnt today was...”, “I need to spend
some time in revising...”
 Ask students to make a reflection for the day’s lesson. You can ask them to think
“three most interesting or useful things that were studied”, “ a question that they
want to ask about something in the lesson.”

8. ENDING THE LESSON
 Make pairs or groups and ask them to answer your questions which are like: “List
the words that you learn today”, “how did your personal energy levels rise and
fall throughout the lesson?” , “name some suprising things in today’s lesson.”
 For absent students, ask students to write short summary of today’s lesson. The
summary can be in the form of e-mail, a letter or an update on Facebook page.
 Appoint a few students to make a summary of the day’ lesson at the end of the
lesson.

9. ENDING THE LESSON
 If the activity lasts longer than you expected, do not wait the end of the lesson in
order to finish it. Make some adjustments for “timing”, “pace” and “instructions”
so that this will take less time.
 If the activity ends in 10 ten minutes before the lesson finishes, do not start a new
one but you can extend the old activity by giving feedback and adding some
explanations. You can also make students write a new question related with what
they have just finished or repeating activity (it depends on the activity, if it is
possible) by changing the roles.

10. ENDING THE LESSON
Plan the end clearly 10 minutes before lesson ends. Here, you can find a backwards
ten minutes plan:
“ 0- lesson end.
-1- tell students that they can pack their bags and get ready to leave.
-3- set homework.
-4 tidy up books. Collect work in.
-9 feedback and questions about the activity.
-10 conclude discussion activity.”

11. REFERENCES
Scrivener, J. (2012). Classroom management techniques. Cambridge University Press.