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- 2. Using Body Languageand Voice Understanding and comfort in the classroom starts with you! Use these simple tips to get your students speaking and confident in your class!!!
- 3. **********MOST IMPORTANT********** SPEAK SLOWLYAND CLEARLY Picture how slow you might think you need to speak in and English classroom…..and then speak slower than that (especially with beginners)
- 4. Using Students Names https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-m09ueeHes *****alsovery important*** WHY???????? • Gets students more comfortable recognizing you care • Gets them to pay attention • Helps to organize the class • Acknowledges the student • Indicates who to respond appropriately and personally instead of saying “you in the red shirt” • Remember you want this to be a comfortable and interactive space! TIP: always put their name at the end of a question to help you remember their name at first and eventually to keep them engaged Watch this short clip to understand the helpfulness of this tool:
- 5. Classroom Arrangement • Thingsto think about when arranging the classroom: • Age of students • Physical space available • Students personalities • Things to ask yourself: • How will this affect the classroom atmosphere? • How much classroom control do I need? • Will it encourage the students to talk? • Is it possible to do all planned activities? You will find that different layouts of the classroom inspire different responses from your students. For example……
- 6. BENEFITS • Great forpair work • Discourages chatter as they are all facing the teacher DISADVANTAGES • Might be intimidating for students to speak up • Easier for students to doze off • Could be difficult to control
- 7. BENEFITS • Encourages groupdiscussion • Creates an inclusive environment • Every student can interact with one another • Easier to control DISADVANTAGES • Could reach a point of too much group discussion • Not all students are facing directly towards you
- 8. BENEFITS • Good forgroup work • Encourages a lot o student talk time • Students can get more comfortable among their peers DISADVANTAGES • Hard to control • Allows for chatter (in a language other than English) *A lot of the times you will not have a class big enough to arrange the room like this*
- 9. Classwork Type Individual Work •Benefits: • Allows you (teacher) to respond to the individual students needs • You can see exactly where they are at in their understanding of the material • Students become more self-reliant • Disadvantages • Creates more pressure • Confused and shy students may remain confused • No speaking practice Pair Work: • Benefits: • Student talk time is high • They can help each other out • You can be strategic in your pairings (ex. Lower level student with higher level so they can help, pairs that won’t get distracted etc.) • Disadvantages • Pairs might not get along • Hard to answer the questions of all pairs
- 10. Group Work Presentation Giveexplanation/ run through examples before dividing class Make sure students understand exactly what they have to do before setting them free Process Monitor the groups- walk around Contribute if necessary- give support answer questions Make sure everyone is speaking English Ending Signal ending time Try to end activity while students are still engaged and groups are waiting around too long Benefits • Inclusive, good for discussion • good for control Disadvantages • Not so much student talk time • Students might not like group wark Tips
- 11. Concept Checking Whatis concept checking??? Concept checking is the teachers responsibility to make sure that the students are understanding the material. This is specifically important in an English class because its possible that if they don’t understand a specific word that you said, all of the rest is lost You should concept check multiple times throughout your presentation of the material to see where you need to allocate your time.
- 12. How Do IConcept Check? Always make sure your students understood the concept Worksheet /exercise Simply ask them if they understand Summary: “What have you learned today?” Oral questions: You can ask them to answer specific questions in which their answer would indicate For example, if you are doing a class on how much vs. how many you can ask them “Which one can you count?” Production activity – This is any game or activity in which they are producing the material that they learned Thumbs up – I like to use this because sometimes students are embarrassed to stop you and tell you they don’t understand. I tell them thumbs up is if they 100% understand and down is if they didn’t understand at all. They have to put their thumb anywhere inbetween
- 13. Teacher Language/behavior Your behavior,voice, and body language is ESSENTIAL in the progress of your students You are the authority figure/ expert- act like it!
- 14. Board work Itmust be clear and organized Always have a section on your board for new vocabulary that comes up in class- it won’t stick if you don’t write it down When you put verbs on the board make sure they are in the infinitive form and use infinitive particle (ex. To walk instead of walk) If you are particularly disorganized with your notes- plan out your board work before class Make different sections of the board so its clear Make sure you write the correct spelling- its okay if you need to look it up! We are all human! Make sure people understand things you erase before you erase them Its okay for students to wait for you to write something! Maybe read it as you go – try to make shorter sentences/ examples Be aware of resources- for example if you have a classroom with a small whiteboard, it might be difficult to write a lot No cursive Don’t mix upper and lower case letters- stuck with one! Have you ever had a teacher who wrote notes on the board so sporadic that it was impossible to follow? DON’T BE THAT TEACHER!!
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