Classroom Management January 3, 2022 Final
Classroom Management January 3, 2022 Final
Classroom Management January 3, 2022 Final
Be prepared
Welcome students
Agree the rules with your class, be fair and consistent with them
Examples of some classroom rules
• Speak in English
• No food or drink in class
• No mobile phones unless allowed
• Respect each other
• Be on time
• Come prepared to learn
Classroom management styles
Classroom management styles
Classroom management styles video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiIcptKYNh4&list=TLPQMjgxMjIwMjG
Rmum84UfL4Q&index=2
Classroom management styles
• Responsibility
• Cooperation
• Independence
• Autonomous learning
Teacher Talk Time (TTT)
Teacher Talk Time
• Dominant teacher
• Controlling teacher
• Preventing learning
Why reduce Teacher Talk Time?
• Get students to give feedback on tasks to each other rather than to the teacher (think–pair-share)
• Use different interaction patterns (pair/group work)
• Tolerate silence (Inexperienced teachers in particular tend to fill silences by unnecessary talking)
• Provide ‘processing time’ between instructions, during explanations, while waiting for a student
to respond, and during monitoring of activities
• Your lesson may be your students’ only chance to speak English in their day, so try to provide as
many opportunities to speak as possible
How to increase STT
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjcI3J65Nao
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsn7v-Qjak
How to give good instructions
• Get students’ full attention before you start giving instructions (Keep yourself central )
• Be decisive
• ‘OK, everybody, would you, Maria, sit down. Now what you have to do is,
when you, you take this sheet of paper that I’m handing out now and keep it
secret, and some of you are ‘A’, it’s written at the top, and some are labelled
‘B’. OK, can you see that? Don’t show your paper to anyone and then you have
to describe what’s on your paper so that your partner can find out what’s
different, and you must agree; when you’re doing something, draw it on your
paper? OK, Do you understand?’
Concise Instructions
• ‘Sit opposite your partner. Some of you are ‘A’. Some are ‘B’. Don’t
show your paper to anyone. Some things from picture A are
different from picture B. Describe your picture. When you find
something different, draw it. What are you going to do?’
Checking Instructions
groups?
Monitoring, right?
Why do we monitor?
Possibly:
▪ during speaking activities
▪ during written practice exercises
▪ when the focus is on accuracy
▪ when the focus is on fluency
How do we monitor effectively?
To save time
To reduce stress
To function effectively
Effective planning
What do you do if the whole class has finished before the allocated time?
What do you do if only a few of your students have finished the task before everyone?
What do you do in case you have finished all your stages but you still have time for the
end of your session?
How to make classroom management effective
Learning styles and what should be done about them
Physical Layout of the Classroom
Virtual Layout of the Classroom
Use of Classroom Resources:
Mutual respect and creating learning conditions
• Influences learning
• Professionalism
• Act immediately
• Keep calm
• What did you like and what would you use in your
classroom?
University Press.
• Thornbury, S., & Watkins, P. (2007). The CELTA course. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.